The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles.

In 2007, Americans bought 103 million mass market paperbacks - the pocket-sized books crammed into spinner racks at airports, ...

Readers have switched to ebooks and more expensive hardbacks and trade paperbacks.

Mass market paperback books are being phased out and will soon be discontinued. Publishers Weekly reported that ReaderLink, the largest distributor of hardcover, trade, and paperback books to ...

We were walking our dogs when Karen told me the mass-market paperback--the familiar 5-by-7-inch book you could slip into the back pocket of a pair of jeans -- was dead. It took a moment to understand ...