paperbacknoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpeɪ.pə.bæk/us/ˈpeɪ.pɚ.bæk/a book with a cover made of thick paper:
a best-selling paperback
I'll buy some paperbacks at the airport.
It will be published in paperback (= as a paperback) in March.
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Books: kinds of books
- abridge
- annual
- anthology
- audiobook
- autobiography
- backlist
- bestiary
- digest
- e-reader
- exercise book
- fiction
- flipback
- glossy
- manuscript
- novelette
- novella
- page-turner
- photo album
- picture book
- travelogue
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