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Originally Posted by RWood
As I remember, most TPB titles are evergreen titles that stay in print year after year. The kind of stuff that they assign in schools. Many of them are public domain or modern classics.
Yes they are somewhat different in shape than the MMPB but the printing, paper, cover, and binding is often higher in quality since they are designed more than one or two quick reads.
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Putting on my former bookstore manager's hat for the moment; TPBs are definitely a different beast from MMPBs. They're closer in size to a hardcover, and are generally treated the same way by the bookstores. That's to say full book rather than strip cover returns etc. (The name comes because they were distributed to the trade, ie. bookstores, rather than to the mass market of grocery and drug stores like smaller paperbacks.)
But they're not what JSWolf and I were talking about.
Regardless of size, and all three major formats have variations in size, most books maintain similar proportions. These new paperbacks don't. They're about an inch taller than a regular paperback, but the same width. Instead of being roughly 6.4 x4.1 inches they're 7.3 x 4.1 inches. That extra 0.9" of height makes the pages feel out of proportion and increases the price by $2.00.
It's not a good thing.
Conventional TPBs are both taller and wider than MMPBs.