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Originally Posted by rkomar
I shop at a scifi bookstore, and have noticed that a lot of books come out in hardcover, then trade paperback, then nothing else. Trade paperback seems to be the new MMPB (at nearly twice the price). I'm not sure why, but they seem to be abandoning that second market. Maybe that market has abandoned them?
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Could this be from publishers/authors that are too small to be able to afford the additional (typesetting, printer setup, etc) fixed costs of publishing two different formats, as they don't have enough total sales to make market segmentation profitable?
Of course the extreme form of that phenomenon would be a publisher who released a book, as a pbook, only as print-on-demand (low fixed costs, but considerably higher incremental/per-unit costs).