The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
The book is sold only in paperback.
Recent Examples on the WebThe comics were an unexpected massive hit, with the collected trade paperback being the second-highest-selling graphic novel of 2023, per Circana BookScan.—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024 Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, the paperback of which is out on April 9, 2024.—Alissa Quart, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024 The ultramarathon is marked with unique unmanned checkpoints, each of which contains a paperback book.—Ben Morse, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024 Older readers will remember when mass-market paperbacks had ads in their middles.—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024 Three years ago, Swedish academic Andreas Malm published an incendiary paperback that insisted that strategic nonviolence is unlikely to do much to save the planet.—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024 Readers also recommended Prospero’s Books in Volker for inexpensive paperbacks, records and more.—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024 Other than the paperbacks, there’s not much else to it.—Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024 When folded up, the dimensions are similar to a paperback book, making this easy to keep on hand in your coat pocket or regular backpack sleeve.—Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2024
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