hardcover

noun

Definition of hardcovernext
as in paperback

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  2. hardback
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Noun
  • While this is a hardcover/gift edition with a poster, Amazon offers a simpler paperback version for quite a few dollars less.
    Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The video then shows a large cardboard box of the new paperback versions of her 2021 book, Still Learning: A Memoir.
    Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
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  • The few copies of her books that remained reached fantastic prices on the open market (a hardback first edition of Twice Lost costs $300 today), and so people who had copies, usually antiquarians or mystery enthusiasts, described the stories to those who couldn’t find or afford them.
    Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The upcoming paperback edition, set for release on Nov. 12, will feature exclusive content not included in the original hardback.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Sep. 2024
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  • The Experiment, paperbound, 2014).
    Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
  • As the first nodes of the internet were being wired together, the Catalog became a paperbound search engine.
    Fred Turner, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
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