![]() ( March 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Books for the general public are usually printed in hardback only for authors who are expected to be successful, or as a precursor to the paperback to predict sale levels however, many academic books are often only published in hardcover editions. Hardcover books are usually sold at higher prices than comparable paperbacks. An example is the novel The Judgment of Paris by Gore Vidal, which had its revised edition of 1961 first published in paperback, and later in hardcover. It is very unusual for a book that was first published in paperback to be followed by a hardback. In the past the release of a paperback edition was one year after the hardback, but by the early twenty-first century paperbacks were released six months after the hardback by some publishers. ![]() This is intended to, in part, prolong the life of the immediate buying boom that occurs for some best sellers: After the attention to the book has subsided, a lower-cost version in the paperback, is released to sell further copies. For very popular books these sales cycles may be extended, and followed by a mass market paperback edition typeset in a more compact size and printed on thinner, less hardy paper. Some publishers publish paperback originals if slow hardback sales are anticipated. If brisk sales are anticipated, a hardcover edition of a book is typically released first, followed by a "trade" paperback edition (same format as hardcover) the next year. Hardcovers are frequently protected by artistic dust jackets, but a "jacketless" alternative has increased in popularity: these "paper-over-board" or "jacketless" hardcover bindings forgo the dust jacket in favor of printing the cover design directly onto the board binding. Hardcover books are marginally more costly to manufacture. Hardcover books are often printed on acid-free paper, and they are much more durable than paperbacks, which have flexible, easily damaged paper covers. Following the ISBN sequence numbers, books of this type may be identified by the abbreviation Hbk. Modern hardcovers may have the pages glued onto the spine in much the same way as paperbacks. ![]() It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a surface when opened. A typical hardcover book (1899), showing the wear signs of a cloth cover over the hard paperboardsĪ hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather). ![]()
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