Thread: Mass market paperbacks will all but vanish from the publishing scene in a few weeks
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Old 01-25-2026, 01:28 PM   #71
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On a serious note, how will this affect genre authors who are primarily published in mmpb? Most sci-fi/fantasy authors, for example, are published in mmpb, even if they're lucky enough to get a hb edition first. Will all these authors now just have their books published in tpb? And if so, will those whose books were just recently published in mmpb be transitioned to tpb, or just be sold via ebook? This is less of an issue in Britain as 1) the distribution system is different, and 2) fiction paperbacks, literary and genre, are released in what are called B-format books, 12cm x 19cm. Mmpb haven't really been a thing here, even in genre fiction, for 15-20 years.
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