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

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

In 2007, Americans bought 103 million mass market paperbacks - the pocket-sized books crammed into spinner racks at airports, ...

Mass market paperback books are being phased out and will soon be discontinued. Publishers Weekly reported that ReaderLink, the largest distributor of hardcover, trade, and paperback books to ...

There was a time when you could walk into any drugstore or grocery store and pick up a paperback book from one of those spinning racks. You know, your Stephen Kings, the bestsellers like "Jaws," the ...

The squat little paperbacks once crammed into drugstore racks are vanishing, and the industry now says the format's long run is effectively over. After nearly a century in wide circulation, mass ...

The format is credited with making books more accessible with lower prices, a standard size and omnipresent availability.

One of the largest paperback distributors has decided to stop supporting the format, which has been making reading accessible to the masses since the 1930s ...