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Momentous transition” is the phrase Jonathan Galassi and Steve Rubin recently used to describe the state of trade paperbacks. That term, from the publishers of two of Macmillan’s divisions, came in an ...

Readers who don’t want to spend $30 for a new hardcover nonfiction book can no longer count on the release of a lower-cost paperback edition. Traditionally, the paperback would hit the shelves about a ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. There are a few ...