“Why are they still bothering with paperbacks?” This came from a coffee-shop acquaintance when he heard my book was soon to come out in paperback, nine months after its hardcover release. “Anyone who wants it half price already bought it on ebook, or Amazon.”
At The Millions, Nicole Bernier writes about the point of the paperback.
It’s one of very few recent posts about publishing that isn’t about e-books or the coming literary apocalypse, plus it has lots of cool side-by-side comparisons of hardcover and paperback copies of the same book.
