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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What's happening is that publishers are trying to do away with mass market in favor of a different paperback format. I don't know the name of this new format. But it is taller, thinner, and more expensive then mass market. The publishers say they are doing this so they can make the print larger because it's what the customers want. That's BS. What it is is a new format so they can charge more money for the same thing. It doesn't fit in most bookcases and it's not a good fit to the hand. It's a b@sat@rdization of the mass market format. It's so the publishers can cheat the customers of more money.
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I think you're referring to the Trade Paperback—and they've been around forever. I'm not saying the publishers
aren't trying to eliminate MMPB's... just that Trades aren't anything new in the publishing world.