NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with publisher Esther Margolis about the end of the era of mass market paperbacks. These inexpensively made books were once staples in most grocery and drug stores.

There’s something about a paperback book, that fading feel of a flexible, tangible book, of buying one used and finding weird notes scribbled in the margins, the musty smell after it sat in a garage, ...

A new book series attempts to revitalize the printed word with innovative design. The Electric Information Age Book Before Kindle and Nook, the mass-market paperback book was the publishing industry’s ...

Jacinth Green goes through some of the softcover books she references when supplementing her daughters’ education at home in Herndon, Va. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) Perspective by Nick ...

Full disclosure: I get most of my reading done on my Kindle. But when I simply must get my hands on a physical copy of a new book release or time-tested favorite, I prefer paperback. Sure, hardcover ...

The final chapter has been written for Offset Paperback Manufacturers (OPM), based in Dallas, Pa., with the end of May closure of what, in its heyday, was among the largest paperback book ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - The Columbus Public Library and a local non-profit organization, Friends of Libraries, are hosting a paperback only book sale. The Bookapolooza will have many different genres ...

It’s always the simplest problems that lead to the most eye-opening trips down the corporate rabbit hole. Marla Knutsen of Altadena contacted me to say that she was having a hard time closing her ...