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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Trade paperbacks have just always seemed to me to be extra-large paperbacks, with no good reason to be that way except to justify larger costs. Since they also don't fit my (paperback-dominated) shelves well, I tend to avoid them like the plague.
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I thought the same, but a response from Jim Baen a few years ago added some details. *Some* Trade paperbacks allow for larger texts, as in, bigger books. For example, there's a consistent program at Baen to re-release mid-list books in combined versions. Elizabeth Moon's
Deed of Paksenarrion or the current releases of Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan books allow for three books that were originally published separately to be combined in one larger volume. At the time Paks came out, the technology did not allow for a MM paperback to be that large - the binding would break immediately - and it only came out in a large Trade Paper. Some later ones have come out in hardback too, but not mm.
You can thus get a new copy of older books, or catch up on a series that is older. They don't use it for newly written books, as far as I can tell. And, as always, Baen is rational about ebooks, so even if it's only available in Trade, its also there as an ebook.
Darqref