Paperbacks revolutionized American reading habits when they first appeared in the 1930s. The softcover "pocket books" were cheaper to print, cheaper to buy, and easier to transport than the bulky ...

You must have noticed blank pages in both paperback and hardcover books. But have wondered what is the purpose of these blank pages? On top of that, why don’t ebooks have blank pages like that ...

Hardback Books Inside the Factory Series 9 Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit a factory that produces three million books every week and makes 20,000 hardback copies of Pride and Prejudice.

Readers who don’t want to spend $30 for a new hardcover nonfiction book can no longer count on the release of a lower-cost paperback edition. Traditionally, the paperback would hit the shelves ...

The rise of digital content and print-on-demand models has created significant shifts in the publishing-printing relationship, and OnPress Book Printing is meeting this moment by investing in the ...

The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks ...

Friesens Corporation, Canada's largest printer of hardcover books, is investing in two new industrial-scale HP Indigo 50000 Digital Presses to extend its leadership in book printing with a more ...

Hardback covers are pricier to make ― but they pay off Speaking to Mental Floss, Dinah Dunn, a partner at book packager Indelible Editions, said that hardcover copies often pay for themselves.

But why do books come out in heavy, expensive hardback format first? The first books were bound with strong, rigid covers. Small print runs made them expensive luxuries.