The Mass Market Paperback Faces Its Quiet Demise
TL;DR
Mass market paperbacks—once ubiquitous in airport racks and grocery aisles—are fading as ebooks, audiobooks, and more expensive formats erode sales, with ReaderLink announcing it will stop stocking mass markets, signaling the format’s likely extinction after nearly a century.
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