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2. Pocket Books - Wikipedia

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   History. Pocket Books produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry. The German Albatross Books had pioneered the idea of a line of color-coded paperback editions in 1931 under Kurt Enoch, and Penguin Books in Britain had refined the idea in 1935 and ...

3. AbeBooks - Wikipedia

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   Website. abebooks .com. AbeBooks ( / ˈeɪb.bʊks / AYB-buuks[ 1]) is an e-commerce global online marketplace with seven websites that offer books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in over 50 countries. Launched in 1996, it specialises in used, rare and out-of-print books. AbeBooks has been a subsidiary of Amazon since 2008.

4. Edition (book) - Wikipedia

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   A cheap edition typically uses a low-cost paper and is a paperback but they can be hardback. Also typically the size of the font is reduced to fit more words on a page to reduce the overall cost of the book. Naturally, for a cheap edition the author will receive a lower royalty but that may be compensated for by a greater volume of sales.

5. Penguin Books - Wikipedia

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   Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, [ 3] as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. [ 4] Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths ...

6. List of best-selling books - Wikipedia

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   Hence, in cases where there is too much uncertainty, they are excluded from the list. Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide,[ 13] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [ 14] making ...

7. Book - Wikipedia

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   Literature. A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images. Modern books are typically in codex format, composed of many pages that are bound together and protected by a cover. [ 1] They were preceded by several older formats, such as the scroll and the tablet.