I have seen "best-seller" lists that divide paperbacks into various categories, mostly "paperback", "mass market paperback" and "trade paperback". I get the idea the first two terms are the used interchangably, vs. "trade paperback"...which seems to be a higher quality somehow...?
Will someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
2007-01-10 16:40:47 · 1 answers · asked by and_y_knot 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Trade paperbacks tend to be larger in format, better quality binding, printing and paper.
Mass Market is the small pb books you see everywhere from drug stores, to aiports, to book stores.
Paperback is a classifcation, like hardback. It refers only to the way the book is bound [that is with a paper cover rather than a cloth covered cardboard cover]
2007-01-10 17:06:59 · answer #1 · answered by ajtheactress 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋