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Originally Posted by rkomar
I still buy paper books, and the woman who runs the scifi/mystery bookstore nearby said that many of the MMPB releases are getting very short and small, if they exist at all.
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Uh-huh.
"If they exist at all."
Between ebooks eating into massmarket volume and publishers wanting to shift readers to the higher margin trade paperback, the format has been withering for years. To the extent that the AAP got tired of reporting big double digit drops in sales and stopped reporting mass market numbers separately.
Massmarket is headed back to its roots as a windowed reprint format for big sellers. The day of the mmpb original is ending. It's not all just tradpub money-grubbing, though; We are partly to blame for moving to digital.
I won't mourn the loss: the quality of the things has been declining for ages.