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  1. MMPBs are dying!

    15 December 2025 - 10:58 PM

    What do you think? Is it good riddance or are you gonna cry into your fat little copy of The Sword of Shannara?
    https://www.publishe...paperbacks.html

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    Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
    The format credited with making books more accessible via low prices and widespread availability will all but vanish from the publishing scene in a few weeks<h3></h3>The decision made this winter by ReaderLink to stop distributing mass market paperback books at the end of 2025 was the latest blow to a format that has seen its popularity decline for years. According to Circana BookScan, mass market unit sales plunged from 131 million in 2004 to 21 million in 2024, a drop of about 84%, and sales this year through October were about 15 million units. But for many years, the mass market paperback was “the most popular reading format,” notes Stuart Applebaum, former Penguin Random House EVP of corporate communications. Applebaum was also once a publicist at Bantam Books, one of the publishers credited with turning mass market paperbacks into what he calls “a well-respected format.”...

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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2025 - 19:57
    hey dude, happy another one
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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 12:40
    cheers big ears ;)
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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 05:16
    where=were, me bad English, that's unpossible :P
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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 05:15
    On further reflection, maybe not so much "jolly good" as "the whole situation sucks but I'm very glad you and yours are safe and I'm sorry to hear that people you know where impacted, but again I'm glad they are safe".
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    Tsundoku 

    10 Jan 2025 - 13:08
    Jolly good then :)
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    Tsundoku 

    10 Jan 2025 - 07:16
    hey mate, I know you're in a vast sandy wasteland but I hope you and yours are OK during these fires. I note some aren't that far away from you. Take care.
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    Tsundoku 

    16 Dec 2024 - 12:23
    Bloody hell, did we get to that time of the year again so fast? Happy birthday anyway Barstowvian. Hope it's a good one and not too cold. Or sandy.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Apr 2024 - 23:22
    Not too bad thanks. A couple of days off, could be worse.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Apr 2024 - 09:58
    heyo Wuzza, what's the latest?
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2023 - 23:49
    That time of the year again, happy birthday mate. Hope it's a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    16 Dec 2022 - 12:39
    Stop living in the past, man ...
    ;)
    Hope it was a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2022 - 14:07
    Happy birthday Tusken Raider dude
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    Tsundoku 

    26 Jan 2022 - 01:17
    Hah, western north south west. Nice. Hadn't thought of it that way.
    Sometimes us from regional New South Wales refer to NSW as Newcastle Sydney Wollongong - the main metro areas that get all the attention from govt and the media, the rest of the state being "here be dragons" as far as they are concerned. :P
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    Tsundoku 

    21 Dec 2021 - 14:10
    If it's all the same to you, I'd like 2022 to be very low on surprises ...
    Except the lottery-winning kind. I'd like at least a big pleasant surprise there.
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2021 - 20:20
    Well my call about a much better 2021 was a bit off :(
    Still, hope you had a good one, happy birthday.
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