I doubt I bought a single new hardcover book for myself (as opposed to for a class) until sometime after I'd turned 30. Being underemployed and unencumbered by children like a lot of people in their ...

Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links. Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. Growing up my parents didn’t have much, ...

It used to be like clockwork in the book business: first the hardcover edition was released, then, about one year later, the paperback. But in an industry that has been upended by the growth of ...

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, ...

No matter which way you look at it, sales of mass market paperbacks have been in steady decline since 2017. NPD BookScan data shows that unit sales fell 31.5% in 2021 compared to 2017, while the ...

Book lovers are feeling the squeeze as book prices climb, and publishers peel away from the cheaper mass market paperback. The New York Times recently noted the disappearance of cheap books you could ...

Holding its ground at the quiet end of Bourke Street since the early 1960s, The Paperback Bookshop is a true Melbourne mainstay. Originally opened to stock paperback editions of rare Australian and ...