I doubt I bought a single new hardcover book for myself (as opposed to for a class) until sometime after I'd turned 30. Being underemployed and unencumbered by children like a lot of people in their ...

It used to be like clockwork in the book business: first the hardcover edition was released, then, about one year later, the paperback. But in an industry that has been upended by the growth of ...

While any bookseller will tell you the rule of thumb is that about a year passes between a book’s hardcover premiere and its paperback release, the truth is that some books take a lot longer to make ...

Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links. Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. Growing up my parents didn’t have much, ...

Momentous transition” is the phrase Jonathan Galassi and Steve Rubin recently used to describe the state of trade paperbacks. That term, from the publishers of two of Macmillan’s divisions, came in an ...

In the annals of Beatles singles, we have what we might think of as a game-starter in “Please Please Me,” a game-ender in something like “Let It Be,” and a host of game-changers, the most important of ...

Book lovers are feeling the squeeze as book prices climb, and publishers peel away from the cheaper mass market paperback. The New York Times recently noted the disappearance of cheap books you could ...