The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles.

Publishers Weekly reported that mass market paperbacks have stopped being distributed to North American booksellers by the one of the largest distributors.

Readers have switched to ebooks and more expensive hardbacks and trade paperbacks.

Mass market paperback books are being phased out and will soon be discontinued. Publishers Weekly reported that ReaderLink, ...

These are dark and stormy times for the mass-market paperback, that squat little book that calls to mind the beach and airport newsstands. Recession-minded readers who might have picked up a quick ...