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- noun Plural form of
paperback .
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Examples
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That Penguin Books, which only publishes paperbacks, is different from The Penguin Press, which only publishes hardcovers, both of which are different from (but part of) the company The Penguin Group, which is itself a separate entity in all but name from Penguin UK.
The shoe’s on the other foot — what journos need to know about pubs « The Book Publicity Blog 2009
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That Penguin Books, which only publishes paperbacks, is different from The Penguin Press, which only publishes hardcovers, both of which are different from (but part of) the company The Penguin Group, which is itself a separate entity in all but name from Penguin UK.
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Rather than load up my suitcase with paperbacks, is there a place we can buy used paperbacks?
Used books 2010
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That Penguin Books, which only publishes paperbacks, is different from The Penguin Press, which only publishes hardcovers, both of which are different from (but part of) the company The Penguin Group, which is itself a separate entity in all but name from Penguin UK.
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Writer Alan Moore also claims the seventh hardcover slot with Batman: The Killing Joke, and Nos. 4 and 10 in paperbacks with V for Vendetta and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1.
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Rather than load up my suitcase with paperbacks, is there a place we can buy used paperbacks?
Used books 2010
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First came, it seems, Spacesick's "I Can Read Movies" series with covers reminiscent of Penguin Classics paperbacks from the 1960s.
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Rather than load up my suitcase with paperbacks, is there a place we can buy used paperbacks?
Used books 2010
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All public libraries are “underfunded and heavily used” and using the honor system for used paperbacks is not “half-assed” but a perfectly sensible way for books to remains in circulation without having to go through the time and expense of cataloging & barcoding.
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First, the idea of selling luxury paperbacks is not what I started the company to do.
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