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A cheap edition typically uses a low-cost paper and is a paperback but they can be hardback. Also typically the size of the font is reduced to fit more words on a page to reduce the overall cost of the book. Naturally, for a cheap edition the author will receive a lower royalty but that may be compensated for by a greater volume of sales.
Gay pulps are part of the expansion of cheap paperback books that began in the 1930s and "reached its full force in the early 1950s." [1] Mainstream publishers packaged the cheap paperbacks to be sold in train and bus stations, dimestores, drugstores, grocery stores, and newsstands, to reach the market that had bought pulp magazines in the first half of the twentieth century.
A blank paperback book Glued binding. A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardback (hardcover) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, leather, paper, or plastic.
Pocket Books produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry. The German Albatross Books had pioneered the idea of a line of color-coded paperback editions in 1931 under Kurt Enoch, and Penguin Books in Britain had refined the idea in 1935 and had one ...
The average full-time, in-state undergraduate student pays $1,226 for books and supplies each academic year. As a former first-generation college student, Josh Lachs said these textbook costs can ...
Cover of the pulp magazine Dime Mystery Book Magazine, January 1933 A. A. Wyn's Magazine Publishers (Periodical House/Ace Magazines) published Secret Agent X , Flying Aces and others Better/Standard/Thrilling (The Thrilling Group) published Captain Future , Startling Stories , The Phantom Detective , and The Black Bat .