We were walking our dogs when Karen told me the mass-market paperback--the familiar 5-by-7-inch book you could slip into the ...

The format credited with making books more accessible via low prices and widespread availability will all but vanish from the publishing scene in a few weeks. At its zenith in the second half of the ...

We must end 2025 with a final farewell in the world of books. Mass market paperbacks were primarily positioned as portable, even disposable, low cost and even lowbrow as they were significantly ...

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with publisher Esther Margolis about the end of the era of mass market paperbacks. These inexpensively made books were once staples in most grocery and drug stores.