as in hardcover
a published work that has a thick paper cover
The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
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Recent Examples of paperback
Roughly the size of a small paperback book, the external pacemaker was also Medtronic’s first product.
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Mars King, Twin Cities, 30 Oct. 2024
Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, the paperback of which is out on April 9, 2024.
—Alissa Quart, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
So read the book now before the paperback gets one of those horrid movie-poster covers.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
It got republished as a mass market paperback and sold nearly a million copies.
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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Mars King, Twin Cities, 30 Oct. 2024
Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, the paperback of which is out on April 9, 2024.
—Alissa Quart, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
So read the book now before the paperback gets one of those horrid movie-poster covers.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
It got republished as a mass market paperback and sold nearly a million copies.
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Paperback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paperback. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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