A fascinating article in the New York Times details a major cultural shift for readers -- mass market paperbacks are going away. Of course, the Illuminatus! trilogy originally was published as a trio of mass market paperbacks.
I used to buy many mass market paperbacks. I still have my original paperbacks of Illuminatus! But nowadays, when I buy a cheap book, it's an ebook. I have hundreds of books on my Kindle, most of them purchased on sale for a couple of bucks or so. Mass market paperbacks used to be the easiest way to be able to read anywhere. But because I have a smartphone, and a Kindle app on my phone, I have a big library I carry everywhere I go.
2 comments:
Thank you for sharing this article. Call me ignorant but I had never realized that there were two different kinds of paperbacks...
I have a whole bunch of ebooks but very seldom feel compelled to read them, I am still very much a material, paper-made, book lover.
An interesting piece on "A Generational Shift in Reading." I was surprised of the current breakdown of roughly 50% paper, 25% ebook, and 25% audio. I expected ebooks to be higher and audio to be lower. That said, the adoption of ebook and audio is impressive in such a relatively short amount of time.
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