The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles.

Readers have switched to ebooks and more expensive hardbacks and trade paperbacks.

The squat little paperbacks once crammed into drugstore racks are vanishing, and the industry now says the format's long run is effectively over. After nearly a century in wide circulation, mass ...

There’s something about a paperback book, that fading feel of a flexible, tangible book, of buying one used and finding weird notes scribbled in the margins, the musty smell after it sat in a garage, ...

There's this thing called Paperback Paradise, a page dedicated to photoshopping vintage paperback book covers with funny, ...

In its 4th quarter earnings report, Amazon made a huge and very exciting announcement that Kindle e-books have officially overtaken paperback books as the most popular format on Amazon. Last July, ...

A new book series attempts to revitalize the printed word with innovative design. The Electric Information Age Book Before Kindle and Nook, the mass-market paperback book was the publishing industry’s ...

You will soon be able to print your own copy of rare and hard-to-find books thanks to a deal between Google and On Demand Books, the maker of the Espresso Book Machine. Dubbed the “ATM for books,” the ...

If you are looking for a new read this weekend, we’ve got a variety of titles on offer, from fairy tales and American comics to barn-burning histories on influential immigrant cooks and the infamous ...

Reading might be fundamental, but that doesn’t mean we read as often as we should. Everyone has at least one stack of books they stare at sheepishly, knowing they haven’t been read or cracked one open ...