What is the difference between a book listed as a paperback and a book listed as a trade paperback?

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Paperbacks come in several variations. A Paperback is simply a book that has a glued spine and a paper or cardstock outer cover (called "wraps" or "wrapper"). In contrast, a hardback (until recently) would have a sewn binding and a cloth or paper covered "board" cover.

A Mass Market Paperback (MMPB) is the relatively small "pocket-sized" book that fits in a rack designed specifically for such books. These began in the 1930s and are the cheapest way to get a book out on the market. These are distributed the same way newspapers and magazines are.

Typically the paper is of poor quality, readily yellowing over time. These books show up in regular book stores but also in nontraditional spots such as airports, drugstores, and magazine stands. A Trade Paperback is a larger book, often the same size as the hardback original.

Typically the paper is of better quality than in the MMPB. Sometimes, even the text on the pages is exactly the same as that of the hardback copy, especially if put out by the same publishing house. Their price is higher than that of an MMPB but less than a hardback.An Oversized Paperback is also a Trade Paperback, simply a larger format book with a soft binding.

Often the hardback edition is also an oversized book. There are specific terms booksellers have traditionally used to tell you the size of a book, such as quarto or folio, but many book buyers are not familiar with these terms today. This is why booksellers often include either the dimensions of a book or they state "oversized" in the description of the book.

An Academic Paperback is one released by a university press and which may have a cover made of heavy paper, not the glossy cardstock seen in MMPBs and most Trade Paperbacks. Traditionally, many buyers of these books would have them custom-bound if they intended to keep them for a long time. Hope this makes things clear.

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Easy to confuse until you have it explained A paperback is, quite simply, the typical, soft covered book you find in most bookstores. They are sometimes called "mass-market paperbacks" or "pocketbooks". It is quite often a printed much later than the first edition that, at least for many popular authors, comes out in a larger, hard-covered copy.

Usually the publisher will wait about a year before releasing the paperback version because there is a much higher profit margin in the hardcover books. With less popular or new authors, the books often go directly to paperback. Trade Paperbacks are a different animal.

The trade paperback is about the size of a hard cover book, except that it has a soft cover, making these your "over-sized paperbacks". Sometimes a publisher will release a trade paperback version of a book not released in hardcover, or in advance of the smaller paperback version (since it is priced higher than the paper back and less than the hardcover). Advance reading copies of many novels are released to reviewers and some retailers in Trade Paperback copies, clearly marked "Not For Resale".

Sometimes these can be found for sale on the second market (such as E-bay). Advance reading copies are sometime highly sought by collectors. The more popular use of Trade Paperbacks recently is their use for reprinting comics.

Publishers will take several issues of a comic, usually comprising a certain story arc, and publish them together in one binding. These are often referred to as Trade Paperbacks or Trade Paperback Comics. These have become quite popular for casual comic readers because one does not have to buy every issue of each comic to read the best stories..

Quality and size differenciate trade paper-back from paper-back. Packer-back books are those which you are used to seeing; small, on thin low-grade paper, usually using glue as a binder. Trade paper-back books are near hard-bound books in size.

They use the same quality paper as hard-bound books, and so the type-set is close to, or matches, that in the hard-bound. Also, many, most, trade paper-backs are sewn, not glued, so their life span is similar to its hard-bound brothers The major difference is quality. There is also, naturally, a difference in price.My own preference in buying books is hard-bound.

If the book has not had a hard-bound release, I’ll buy the trade paper-back. Under NO circumstances will I purchase the traditional (also called mass-market) paper-back. They age quickly, turn yellow, and pages fall out.

A complete waste of money. Sources: experience .

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