PAPERBACK POLL

[erastes]

Happy Birthday L E Bryce!

Here's a quick poll which I'd dearly like as comprehensive answer to as possible, so please ask your friends just to pop over and tick a box?

Mass market or Trade paperback?

[Poll #1351299]

Comments

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

Only because I can stack them double height and two deep on each shelf of my bookcase...

I MUST HAVE MUCH SPACE.

But if this is for T, suggest it is 83' high, 43' wide and engraved on tablets of gold. inlaid with diamonds, and bound with dodo skin with snow leopard trim.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I don't know off hand what T is going to be - but it's decided anyway - they are printing "mid March" I was told this morning. and will be sending to 165 contacts. Eeeee.

You make me laugh.

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

I demand slave boys.

165! OMG! you are going to take over the world. Now, practise your brashness and shilling - sell sell sell.

Mid March! Omg. That is like... 4 weeks! WOOP!

[sleveen.livejournal.com]

I have no preference - as long as the literature is good, I want it! ::grabbyhands:: Octavo, Folio, photons, papyrus, engraved in stone, doesn't matter... :)

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

if it is Erastes'... should be on tablets of gold. maybe platinum. And come with complimentary half naked slave boys (or fully naked) to carry it around.

I am procrastinating. So don't mind me.

[sleveen.livejournal.com]

MMmmmm, yesssssssssss....naked slave boys, their bodies oiled to perfection... *sigh*

What a lovely warming thought in the middle of a Newfoundland blizzard. :-)

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

And here I was complaining because the sky is grey...

You must have seen the Dieux du stade? If not google it. Should be very... warming.

*grin*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I tend to agree. I've been known to read crisp packets. Word-addiction is a dangerous thing. Why aren't there groups for it? My name is Erastes and I'm a word-aholic.

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

the messages on the back of loo rolls? or bleach containers?

[sleveen.livejournal.com]

...backs of cereal boxes, tins, magazines in other languages, languages I don't necessarily read... :)

[cynbaby.livejournal.com]

I prefer the mass market size, but in all honesty, I'm just happy to have it in print form.

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

I hadn't really thought about it before. If I want a book I buy it, whatever the size. I have a mix of both on my book shelves, but I will say that mass market is easier to hold and the whole page easier to see through a pair of glasses. Given a choice, regardless of price I prefer hard back.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I like books I can slip into my pockets, just to have the comfort of keeping them close. Bigger books have to be tucked into bags, or under arms, or even up jumpers if I need to use both hands suddenly. I know that the content is the most important thing but we all have our little ways.

Incidentally I've been reading some of the comments above and you have the most interesting friends list. Gangsters, 15th century humanists! If ever I win the lottery I think I'll set up my own publishing company AND buy a book shop to display the books appropriately.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I have the best flist, bar none. but then I'm hugely biased. *squishes them all including you*

[fleurrochard]

Mass market - if I want a bigger, more shiny book, I'll buy the hardcover. (But if I want a book, the size of it certainly won't stop me buying it.)

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

When it comes to print books I like them as small and light as possible. I like to carry my current read around with me (to work etc) and I want it small enough to fit in my pocket or handbag. I also like smaller paperbacks for reading in bed because I can hold them in one hand (no mucky thoughts plz).

[mallorypath.livejournal.com]

I just scrolled through to see if anyone had already said what I wanted to, and here it is. I second all of this.

[byrne.livejournal.com]

I find mass market books feel disposable (in that the paper is usually a lesser grade, the glue not as good, and the spines break) and I avoid buying them if another format is available. I'm a trade paperback girl all the way.

(edited for two typos, there's likely more. Heck, I'm probably creating more right now!)

[fleurrochard]

And here is where I snuggle my German paperbacks, because here the difference most of the time is really only the size (and the price), not the quality.

[byrne.livejournal.com]

Here mass markets are printed on crap paper, for the most part, barely above newspaper grade.

[ggymeta.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

I'm a 6x9r.

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Trade tends to be better quality (better art, better paper) but I can fit more mass market on my shelves and in my purse. (I like to take a book wherever I go, just in case.)

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

I actually like trade paperback a bit more, but I prefer mass market size because it's cheaper and I can buy more books if they're mass market. :)

Angie

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

I thought mass market was teh smaller (approx 4"x7" size)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I just went with what the dimensions said for FF on Amazon. I know nuffin'.