| ▲ | nottorp a day ago | |
Isn't paperback basically dead in the US because most sales are digital now? Tbh i've given up on dead tree books with the lone exception of a few hard covers because ... space the final frontier. | ||
| ▲ | dgacmu 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Mass-market paperbacks are definitely dying, but trade paperbacks continue to sell (at rates lower than mass-market, obviously): https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/p... (trade paperbacks are the larger paperback editions printed on better paper than the mass market paperbacks, but still soft-cover.) John Scalzi posted about this a few months ago: "All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks." | ||
| ▲ | dangus 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Readers in the US still overall have a preference for physical books: https://www.tonerbuzz.com/blog/paper-books-vs-ebooks-statist... | ||