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Originally Posted by rkomar
Trade paperbacks are being pushed because they are much higher in price. Many books don't even get to the MMPB stage anymore, most likely because they aren't expected to sell in big numbers to non-fans. Big publishers aren't selling as many books anymore, so they are looking to make more on each sale.
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In SciFi, trade is increasingly the only paperback format available, even for very well selling books many years later. MMPB seems dead for some SciFi publishers.