How does a paperback book differ from a mass market paperback book?

. Anyway, I have started to get quite a collection of books so I have started cataloging them using a software database package from Collectorz. Com - my question is, how can I tell the difference between a "paperback" version of a book from the "mass market paperback" release?

I would imagine it has to do with paper quality, font size, page size, etc.But I don't know how to distiguish one from the other. Asked by BearChaser 44 months ago Similar questions: paperback book differ mass market Arts > Books.

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The most obvious difference is usually the size Mass market paperbacks tend to have cheaper paper, no (or very few) illustrations, smaller print, and a smaller page dimension. Trade paperbacks (what your program is referring to as simply "paperbacks"), on the other hand, are usually printed on better paper, have easier-to-read print (even if the font size is the same, there's often more spacing between the lines) and are more likely to have the illustrations that the hardcover version has. Since there's nothing definite about most of this, consider how big the book is and how much it costs.

We're all familiar with that standard pocket paperback book size. I don't have a ruler handy, but I'd estimate it as being about seven inches tall by about 4 inches wide. That's a mass market paperback.

Those larger, odd-sized paperbacks that don't fit neatly on my smaller bookshelves are trade paperbacks. I've also noticed that mass market paperbacks all tend to cost either $6.99 or $7.99; trade paperbacks are usually over $10. (I'm sure that's not an absolute rule, but it certainly applies to most of the books I own!) Sources: An out-of-control paperback addiction .

For posterity: "Mass market paperbacks" (or "MMPB") are small, (relatively) inexpensive paperbacks sold through venues other than traditional bookstores: drug stores, convenience stores, gift shops, and so forth. The biggest giveaway is the bar coding: in a traditional book, the bar code on the back is the EAN "Bookland" code. It will typically have the ISBN written above it and will begin "978" or "979".

In a mass market paperback, the bar code on the back will be a UPC code, and the Bookland EAN will be inside the front wraps. That's a bit technical, but try this: if you have a paperback, open the front cover. If a bar code is there, on the reverse side of the cover, it's almost certainly considered by the publisher to be a MMPB.

If the bar code on the back begins "978" or "979", the publisher almost certainly does not consider it to be a MMPB. Org 10 months ago.

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Sam's Club now markets their paperback books, except they are about an inch taller. What's the deal?

I want to buy two books, but softcover, not paperback. How do I specdify this?

Looking for the BugVille books...small books, one title was 'HumBug', paperback, at least 25-30 yrs old.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.