soft-cover
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of soft-cover
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Only the young novelist comes out all right: he gets the girl, his book is snapped up by Doubleday and a book club, and should do extremely well in soft-cover editions.
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So intense is public interest in its findings that a soft-cover version published by Bantam Books is already well on its way to the bestseller lists.
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The merry mailman cannot mangle the thing in your letter slot and twist it into some kind of soft-cover Calder.
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Among the latter, Jay McInerney made his name with the paperback Bright Lights, Big City, and Richard Ford's cult reputation was considerably enlarged by his soft-cover novel The Sportswriter.
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Less than four years ago, the publishing world gasped at the $5 million advance that William Morrow and Avon Books paid for hard-cover and soft-cover rights to James Clavell's Whirlwind.
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