as in paperback
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Noun
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Like Galaxy of Books, inexpensive paperbacks are the meat and potatoes of neighborhood bookshops.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025 -
The woods and white musks remind me of cracking open a fresh new paperback novel.—
Venus Wong,
refinery29.com,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The publishing industry reported a revenue increase of 7% for hardback books last year compared to 2023, and more than 4% for paperbacks, along with an approximately 3% increase for e-books.—
Dean Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
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While Another Roadside Attraction failed to garner much attention when it was first published in hardback, the paperback edition steadily became a word-of-mouth hit, especially on college campuses.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Experiment, paperbound, 2014).—
Jessica Wapner,
Scientific American,
16 Nov. 2020
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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
Noun
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He was widely regarded as a titan of theological writing and, as pope, wrote tome after tome of commentaries using pencil and paper at his desk in the Vatican apartments or his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
28 Feb. 2025
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And then these tomes would arrive, these ancient books.—
Kathryn Shattuck,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Softback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softback. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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