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Book lovers are feeling the squeeze as book prices climb, and publishers peel away from the cheaper mass market paperback. The New York Times recently noted the disappearance of cheap books you could ...

Here’s a little perspective: In 1939, gas cost 10 cents a gallon at the pump. A movie ticket set you back 20 cents. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the year’s bestselling hardcover book, was ...

In 2007, Americans bought 103 million mass market paperbacks - the pocket-sized books crammed into spinner racks at airports, drugstores, and grocery checkouts. Last year the total was 18 million. Now ...