trade paperback

noun

1. a softbound book that is usually larger and more expensive than a mass market paperback and is sold primarily in bookstores as a trade book.

Example Sentences

What neither of us imagined was that the glossy trade paperback with its attractively minimalist black-and-white cover would act as the catalyst for my entire professional life.

From Los Angeles Times

Almost immediately, I was drawn to a modern trade paperback copy of Lorrie Moore’s “Self-Help.”

From Los Angeles Times

I unfortunately no longer have that shabby trade paperback copy with the medicine cabinet on its cover, but it has been replaced by a first edition hardcover.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1987, Mr. Denneny started Stonewall Inn Editions, an L.G.B.T. trade paperback imprint at St. Martin’s — a first for a major publishing house — that republished many of the gay and lesbian books that he had previously released in hardcover.

From New York Times

So, "Mandy" invents a sci-fi novelist — whole, vibrant pages from her trade paperback — and a TV commercial for a brand of demonic mac and cheese.

From Salon