From: robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
   In article <10hnf7d$kmr$1@reader2.panix.com>,   
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:   
      
   > RIP the Mass Market Paperback.   
   >   
   > Now you can have the ebook (which you're only renting if it is DRMed),   
   > hard-to-shelve trade paperback, or the expensive hardcover.   
   >   
   > https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/pub   
   isher-news/arti   
   > cle/99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html   
      
   They had already almost completely disappeared from the SF/F   
   marketplace. Locus in its Feb 2025 review of 2024 claimed that there   
   only 40 massmarket paperbacks published in 2024 (5 original, 35 reprints   
   of which 17 were from Baen).   
      
   --   
   "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."   
   Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.   
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   Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
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