as in hardcover
a published work that has a thick paper cover
The store sells both paperbacks and hardcovers.
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When the photographer Adrienne Salinger first published her collection of portraits of teen-agers in their bedrooms, thirty years ago, the book appeared in a paperback edition from Chronicle Books and retailed for less than twenty dollars.
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
The paperback editions were collected into ten books, with the first season of The Sandman covering the first two — Preludes & Nocturnes and The Doll’s House — and two stories from Dream Country released as a surprise bonus episode.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 July 2025
Editor and co-translator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010), her most recent translation, Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories, was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize.
—Suzanne Jill Levine
june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
Starting in the fall of 1974, Zanuck, Brown and Benchley appeared on a number of radio and television programs to simultaneously promote the release of the paperback edition of the novel and the upcoming film.
—Jared Bahir Browsh, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
The paperback editions were collected into ten books, with the first season of The Sandman covering the first two — Preludes & Nocturnes and The Doll’s House — and two stories from Dream Country released as a surprise bonus episode.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 July 2025
Editor and co-translator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010), her most recent translation, Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories, was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize.
—Suzanne Jill Levine
june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
Starting in the fall of 1974, Zanuck, Brown and Benchley appeared on a number of radio and television programs to simultaneously promote the release of the paperback edition of the novel and the upcoming film.
—Jared Bahir Browsh, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paperback
book
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Osman’s book has become a classic among British crime thrillers.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Aug. 2025
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Ghajar also represents Meta in a case in which authors have accused the company of illicitly training its AI language model on their books.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Paperback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paperback. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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