Mass market paperback books are being phased out and will soon be discontinued. Publishers Weekly reported that ReaderLink, ...

Publishers Weekly reported that mass market paperbacks have stopped being distributed to North American booksellers by the ...

In an article last month , Publishers Weekly reported that ReaderLink, the largest full-service distributor of hardcover, trade and paperback books to booksellers in North America, will stop ...

There was a time when you could walk into any drugstore or grocery store and pick up a paperback book from one of those spinning racks. You know, your Stephen Kings, the bestsellers like "Jaws," the ...

We were walking our dogs when Karen told me the mass-market paperback--the familiar 5-by-7-inch book you could slip into the back pocket of a pair of jeans -- was dead. It took a moment to understand ...

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 was ...