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

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

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

The format is credited with making books more accessible with lower prices, a standard size and omnipresent availability.

Is this holding the line at $1.99? Valiant's first trade paperbacks, each with four or five issues worth of content, will all be priced at a nice low $9.99. This was always going to be the case with X ...

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 ...