The paperback is the teabag to the hardback’s loose leaf

Times Literary Supplement

"The paperback is the teabag to the hardback’s loose leaf; the contents are the same but the taste seems not to be, or not quite."

I’ll wait for the paperback

Paperback publication offers a novel a second life, usually a year after the hardback appears. By then the wider world has made its judgement, the shine of excitement has dulled, and the writer is beginning to forget the names of…

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