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290:, which translates as "pocket book", was used and is still in use today.) De Graaf, like Lane, negotiated paperback rights from other publishers, and produced many runs. His practices contrasted with those of Lane by his adoption of illustrated covers aimed at the North American market. To reach an even broader market than Lane, he used distributors of newspapers and magazines to distribute his books because they had a lengthy history of being aimed (in format and distribution) at mass audiences. Pocket Books were not available in book stores because they did not carry magazines. 944:) is a higher-quality paperback book. If it is a softcover edition of a previous hardcover edition and is published by the same house as the hardcover, the text pages are normally identical with those of the hardcover edition, and the book is almost the same size as the hardcover edition. The pagination is the same, so that references to the text will be unchanged: this is particularly important for reviewers and scholars. The only difference is the soft binding; the paper is usually of higher quality than that of a mass-market paperback, often being 232: 531:, a metal pole with a four-sided wire frame designed to vertically hold rows of racks of paperback books. Retail store owners no longer had to devote feet of valuable counter space to low-profit paperbacks. Dozens of paperbacks could be displayed vertically in five or six square feet of floor space. (Similar racks were available for magazines and comic books.) By the late 1940s, paperback spinner racks were ubiquitous in large and small towns across the United States, in every local grocery store, drug store, 37: 29: 2825: 2835: 2815: 1004: 137: 490:. Like Avon, Dell followed the basic format established by Pocket Books. But within that format, "Dell achieved more variety than any of its early competitors . . . instantly identifiable format of vibrant airbrushed covers for its predominantly genre fiction", specialized logos and special features like maps and lists of characters. 109:, one of the first ten books it published in 1939, emphasized the impermanence of paperbacks by telling readers if you "enjoyed it so much you may wish to own it in a more permanent edition", they could return the 25 cent book to Pocket Books with an additional 70 cents and it would send them a copy of the 95 cent 1546:
extended his paperback idea with the new series 'Universal-Bibliothek' (Universal Library') . Thousands of titles eventually followed, which included nearly all the world's great literature. In this way, and despite most Western countries' imitations, Reclam paperbacks became the world's foremost paperback series.
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to distribute its Mentor and Signet titles. That contract prohibited Fawcett from becoming a competitor by publishing its own paperback reprints. Roscoe Kent Fawcett wanted to establish a line of Fawcett paperbacks, and he felt original works would not be a violation of the contract. To challenge the
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Paperback editions of books are issued when a publisher decides to release a book in a low-cost format. Lower-quality paper, glued (rather than stapled or sewn) bindings, and the lack of a hard cover may contribute to the lower cost of paperbacks. In the early days of modern paperbacks, the 1930s and
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in 1867, with the coming into force of the constitution of the Northern German Federation , works by German authors deceased for 30 years or more officially became public domain. Entire libraries of very cheap paperback editions of German classics immediately flooded the market. And so Reclam, too,
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Two new developments changed the nature of the mass-market paperback business. One was the decision by publishers to publish more recent best selling books than the older books originally published by Pocket Book. They sought reprint rights on new books and soon found themselves in competition for
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reported in May 1950 that Fawcett books were "similar in appearance and cover allure to many of the paperback reprints, but the story material original and not reprinted from regular editions." It also said the authors would be paid a $ 2,000 advance with a guaranteed first printing of 200,000
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Pocket Books established the format for all subsequent paperback publishers in the 1940s. The books measured 6.5" by 4.25" (16.5 cm by 10.8 cm), had full-color covers, and cost 25 cents. Eventually in the 1950s the height increased by 0.5" (1.4 cm) to 7" (18 cm). The width
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brought both new technology and a wide readership of men and women serving in the military or employed as shift workers; paperbacks were cheap, readily available, and easily posted and carried. Furthermore, people found that restrictions on travel gave them time to read more paperbacks.
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Since the mid-20th century, paperbacks can also be the preferred medium when a book is not expected to be a major seller and the publisher wishes to release the book without a large investment. Examples include many novels and newer editions or reprintings of older books.
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The early 19th century saw numerous improvements in the printing, publishing and book-distribution processes, with the introduction of steam-powered printing presses, pulp mills, automatic type setting, and a network of railways. These innovations enabled the likes of
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entered the Canadian mass-market book trade in the early 1960s, with its "Canadian best seller library" series, at a time when Canadian literary culture was beginning to be popularized, and a call for a Canadian author identity was discussed by the Canadian people.
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Fawcett's action led to immediate controversy, with an executive Vice president of Pocket Books attacking the whole idea, a literary agent reporting that one hardcover publisher threatened to boycott his agency if he dealt with mass market publishers, and
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After these books were successfully published, Fawcett announced in December 1949 that in February 1950 it would publish "original fiction including westerns and mysteries at 25 cents in a pocket-sized format" in a series called Gold Medal Books.
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Trade paperbacks did not enter the American market until around 1960. Unlike mass-market paperbacks they are distributed by their original hard-cover publishers directly to book stores, not through magazine distributors to other retailers.
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U.S. paperbacks quickly entered the Canadian market. Canadian mass-market paperback initiatives in the 1940s included White Circle Books, a subsidiary of Collins (UK.); it was fairly successful but was soon outstripped by the success of
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1940s, they were sold as a cheaper, less permanent, and more convenient alternative to traditional hardcover books, as the name of the first American paperback publisher, Pocket Books, indicates. In addition, the Pocket Books edition of
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Sales soared, prompting Gold Medal editorial director Ralph Daigh to comment later, "In the past six months we have produced 9,020,645 books, and people seem to like them very well." In 1950 Gold Medal published 35 titles, in 1952, 66.
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placed a large order, the books sold extremely well. After that initial success, booksellers showed more willingness to stock paperbacks, and the name "Penguin" became closely associated with the word "paperback" in Great Britain.
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to issue a similar line of reprints. Because at first Pocket Books was the only publisher of paperbacks, the term "pocket book" became synonymous with paperback in English-speaking North America. (In France, the term
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newsagent found at most urban British railway stations. These paper bound volumes were offered for sale at a fraction of the historical cost of a book, and were of a smaller format, 110 mm Ă— 178 mm
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copied the basic format established by Pocket Books but differentiated itself by emphasizing, as a book on collecting paperbacks says, "popular appeal rather than loftier concepts of literary merit." In 1953,
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started the Collection of British and American Authors in 1841. These inexpensive, paperbound editions, a direct precursor to mass-market paperbacks, eventually ran to over 5,000 volumes.
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took over. Its original focus was classics and scholarly works as well as popular and pulp fiction. Eventually it shortened its name to New American Library and published books in the
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may also be printed in trade paperback form. Publishers sometimes release popular collections first in a hardback form, followed by a trade paperback months later. Examples include
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Also in 1952, Ace began publishing Ace Double Novel Books, two books printed in one volume for 35 cents, one a reprint and one original, with two covers and two title pages.
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remained the same because wire display racks used in many locations could not hold wider books. With the larger size came a higher price, first 35 cents and then 50 cents.
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which began in 1949 and, after a few years of publishing undistinguished novels, focused on the romance genre and became one of the world's largest publishers.
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imprint. They adopted many of Albatross's innovations, including a conspicuous logo, using only type on the cover, and color-coded covers for different genres.
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publisher partially owned by brother and sister Joseph Meyers and Edna Meyers Williams and hired them to organize a new company called "Avon Publications".
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was published in September 1997, and it was only published in a mass-market paperback edition, as was the standard practice at the time for first novels.
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is often cited as the first American paperback book. However, the first mass-market, pocket-sized, paperback book printed in the U.S. was an edition of
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accounted for at least 25% of all paperback sales. In 2013, 51% of paperback sales were romance. Many titles, especially in genre fiction, have their
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magazine summarized its books as "westerns, whodunits, and the kind of boy-meets-girl story that can be illustrated by a ripe cheesecake jacket ".
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also encompasses the medium-sized paperbacks described as B-format, above. British trade paperbacks are 135 mm Ă— 216 mm (
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Genre categories began to emerge, and mass-market book covers reflected those categories. Mass-market paperbacks influenced slick and
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low, and looked to non-traditional book-selling retail locations. Booksellers were initially reluctant to buy his books, but when
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reported in May 1952 that Avon had included three originals in its April releases and was seeking more. It added that Dell was
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The reception of Shakespeare in Germany from 1815 to 1850: the spread and assimilation of foreign reference material
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In 1953, Dell announced its line of originals, Dell First Editions, and published its first novels by Walt Grove,
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La Réception de Shakespeare en Allemagne De 1815 À 1850: Propagation Et Assimilation de la Référence Étrangère
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in paperback and are never published in hardcover; this is particularly true of first novels by new authors.
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de Shakespeare au prix de vente de 1 Thaler et demi pour l'édition brochée at illustrée en douze volumes.
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edition and often sold not only at bookstores, but also where books are not the main business, such as at
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The first ten Pocket Book titles published in May 1939 with a print run of about 10,000 copies each were:
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Lane intended to produce inexpensive books. He purchased paperback rights from publishers, ordered large
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published Shakespeare in this format from October 1857 and went on to pioneer the mass market paperbound
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fonts, use of logo and type on the cover without an illustration, and color-coding the covers by genre.
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the biggest sellers, leading to bidding against each other for the rights and costing them more money.
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Inexpensive books bound in paper have existed since at least the 19th century in such forms as
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in 1938 ... The first Pocket Book title was The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, and it was sold in
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McCleery, Alistair. "The Return of the Publisher to Book History: The Case of Allen Lane".
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cut the experiment short. Albatross's innovations included a standardized size, use of new
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series in one volume, usually an important storyline or the entire series, and the name
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The term B-format indicates a medium-sized paperback of 129 mm Ă— 198 mm (
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Because of its number-one position in what became a very long list of pocket editions,
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That same month Fawcett released the first four Gold Medal books, original novels by
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The Continental market also supported examples of cheap paper-bound books: Bernhard
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revised the 20th-century mass-market paperback format in 1931, but the approach of
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began publishing original fiction in mass–market paperback. It was revolutionary.
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or paperback editions of existing works, and distribute and sell them across the
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Other paperback publishers saw Gold Medal's success and began to emulate it.
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format. This includes the A-format books of 110 mm Ă— 178 mm (
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The mass-market paperback is a small, usually non-illustrated, inexpensive
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Anton Philipp Reclam (1807–1896) fit paraître à partir d'octobre 1857 les
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The success of Pocket Books led to others entering the market. In 1941,
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format, approximately the size of a trade-sized book. The most common
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During World War II, the U.S. military distributed some 122 million "
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This list includes seven novels, the most recent being six year old (
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At first, paperbacks consisted entirely of reprints, but in 1950,
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has become synonymous with a collection of reprinted material.
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Trade paperbacks are often used to reprint several issues of a
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The fifth major 1940s publisher of mass-market paperbacks was
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New paperback publishers continued to enter the market -
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