Word: paperback
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...Five paperback volumes of his musings have become bestsellers, and a sixth hits bookstores next month. An Ostrava-based theater is preparing to dramatize his blunders, and prominent Czech actors twist their tongues in Tuesday night televised readings from Ostravak's blog. And as his popularity surges across the country, Ostravak has rescued his hometown's profile from ridicule. "People are no longer ashamed of being from Ostrava," says Marcela Stehlikova, the editor who, according to the official story, discovered him for her publishing house...
Kadlec's latest book, The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life, is now in paperback...
Wallace's publisher is celebrating the anniversary with a special $10 paperback edition and a series of "Jest Fest" readings and panels. But it might be just as appropriate to deliver a eulogy for Infinite Jest--not to praise it but to bury it. After all, it did not win (nor was it a runner-up for) the National Book Award or the Pulitzer Prize or any other major award. It was hailed as the Novel of the Future, and in fact it kicked off a temporary revival of the maxi-novel, books like Cryptonomicon and The Corrections and Underworld...
...most similar of the sentences appears on page 103 of the paperback copy of Ogletree’s book...
...Reader is about the size of a trade paperback, though thinner, and instead of a liquid-crystal display, its 6-in. screen uses E-Ink technology. Each of its finely packed pixels can be white or black but they don't shimmer or emit any light, so the experience is eerily like looking at paper, high in contrast and relaxing on the eye. The tradeoff is that E-Ink can't yet refresh fast enough to show video, and even scrolling or zooming is a complicated business, but that's not the purpose of the Reader. Even without a backlight...