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In Japan, bunkobon (文庫本) are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and space-saving. The great majority of bunkobon are A6 (105×148mm or 4.1"×5.8") in size. [ 1 ] They are sometimes illustrated and like other Japanese paperbacks usually have a dust wrapper over a plain cover.
A bunkoban (文庫版, lit. "paperback edition") edition refers to a tankōbon printed in bunko format, or a typical Japanese novel-sized volume. Bunkoban are generally A6 size (105 mm × 148 mm, 4.1 in × 5.8 in) and thicker than tankōbon and, in the case of manga, usually have a new cover designed specifically for the release.
The set of terms below were proposed in 1949 by AB Bookman's Weekly.They were adopted by the bookselling community and are still in use today. [1] [2] [3]As new means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when it left the publisher.
The leading paperback publishers often hired experienced pulp magazine cover artists, including Rudolph Belarski and Earle K. Bergey, who helped create the look and feel of paperbacks and set an appealing visual standard that continues to this day. Scores of well-known authors were published in paperback, including Arthur Miller and John Steinbeck.
In 1927, it launched the Iwanami Bunko (Iwanami Library), a "major series of international works". [2] During the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Second World War, the firm was repeatedly censored because of its positions against the war and the Emperor. Iwanami Shigeo was even sentenced to two months in prison for the publication of the ...
In its Sept. 2023 complaint, the Justice Department accused eBay of illegally allowing the sale of more than 343,000 aftermarket "defeat" devices that help vehicles generate more power and get ...
Mahō no Island Bunko (魔法のiらんど文庫, Mahō no i-rando Bunko) is a novel imprint established on October 25, 2007, which publishes new works on the mobile phone-accessible service Mahō no Island operated by the company of the same name, which is a subsidiary of ASCII Media Works. Mahō no Island Bunko publishes general novels.
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