Welshrogue

I don’t get it. We have hardcover, paperback and recently trade versions of books coming out. All aimed at different markets. The hardcover crowd like their books fresh from the print and/or to look good after they have read them and they live out their lives on a book shelf. The trade copy covers those books that the publisher believes wouldn’t make enough money if published as hardcovers. And paperbacks for the rest of the bookreading population.

But now, apparently paperbacks aren’t easy enough to read, they have to create a bigger paperback, with sentences spaced further apart, so that people who can’t read paperbacks have a book style they can read that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. I have never had any problems at all reading a paperback, other than the odd one that I couldn’t read for content or writing style issues. Now paperbacks will be taller, so anyonewho has custom book shelves might just have to reinvent them!

I admit, I am unaware if there is a world wide crisis concerning the ability to read paperbacks. Maybe the smaller paperbacks are convincing our children to read magazines instead of books or perhaps its causing eye strain? Who knows, either way, I don’t see the point of these new fangled
books but I am sure we will see if they are sell or not!

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