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trade paperback: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (333 words) |
 | Trade paperbacks are generally cheaper than hardcover books, but more expensive than mass-market paperbacks. |
| The shape of a trade paperback is similar to a hardcover book, as opposed to a mass market paperback, the height of which is approximately the combined width of the a mass-market paperback and a hardcover book. |
| Trade paperbacks were once used primarily for special editions, but for many literary titles trade paperbacks have now replaced regular paperbacks as the format for a book's subsequent release once its hardcover edition has been discontinued. |
| Trade paperback (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (723 words) |
| Traditionally, a trade paperback will reproduce the stories at the same size as they were originally presented in comic book format; recently, however, certain trades have been published in a smaller, "digest"-sized format, similar in size to a paperback novel. |
| For many years, trade paperbacks were mainly used to reprint older comic-book stories that were no longer available to the average reader, when original copies of those stories were scarce and hard to find, and often very expensive when found due to their rarity. |
| As the trade paperback versions are usually cheaper than buying the individual comics and presented without any advertisements at all, many comic book fans choose to hold off on purchasing the individual issues and only follow the stories when they come out in trade. |
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