Editing Paperback (section)

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A '''trade paperback''' (also called ''trade paper edition'' and ''trade'') is a higher-quality paperback book.<ref>{{cite news |author1=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |title=Trade paperbacks |work=[[Financial Times]] |date=22 March 1960 |page=8}}, cited in [[OED]]</ref> If it is a softcover edition of a previous hardcover edition and is published by the same house as the hardcover, the text pages are normally identical with those of the hardcover edition, and the book is almost the same size as the hardcover edition. The pagination is the same, so that references to the text will be unchanged: this is particularly important for reviewers and scholars. The only difference is the soft binding; the paper is usually of higher quality than that of a mass-market paperback, often being [[acid-free paper]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Trade paperback - Biblio.co.uk Glossary of Book Collecting Terminology |url=https://biblio.co.uk/book_collecting_terminology/trade-paperback-27.html |publisher=[[Biblio.com]] |access-date=4 March 2021}}</ref> In the United States, the term ''trade paperback'' also encompasses the medium-sized paperbacks described as B-format, above. British trade paperbacks are {{convert|135|×|216|mm|in|frac=8|abbr=on}}.<ref name="GuardianSize" />

Trade paperbacks did not enter the American market until around 1960. Unlike mass-market paperbacks they are distributed by their original hard-cover publishers directly to book stores, not through magazine distributors to other retailers.

====Trade comics====
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Trade paperbacks are often used to reprint several issues of a [[Comic book|comic]] series in one volume, usually an important storyline or the entire series, and the name ''trade paperback'' has become synonymous with a collection of reprinted material. [[Graphic novel]]s may also be printed in trade paperback form. Publishers sometimes release popular collections first in a hardback form, followed by a trade paperback months later. Examples include [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[Secret War (comics)|Secret War]]'' and [[DC Comics]]' ''[[Watchmen]]''.

Japanese [[manga]], when they are collected into volumes, are published in the ''[[tankōbon]]'' format, approximately the size of a trade-sized book. The most common {{lang|ja-Latn|tankōbon}} sizes are [[Paper size#Japanese B-series variant|Japanese B6]] (128 × 182&nbsp;mm) and [[Paper size|ISO A5]] (148 × 210&nbsp;mm).