trade book
General audience hardcover
A trade book is a book published for general readers and sold through regular bookstores, as distinguished from textbooks, academic publications, or specialized professional titles.
The term comes from "the book trade"—the commercial publishing industry.
Trade books include novels, biographies, cookbooks, and other titles aimed at broad audiences: Her first trade book sold surprisingly well.
- hardcover editionBook with rigid covers
- coverProtect by overlaying
- dust jacketRemovable paper book cover
- paperPressed pulp for writing
- magazineBound periodical with articles
title · article · page · fiction · report · mass market · self-help · graphic novel · biography · reading list · print run · publishing house · audiobook · literary criticism · remainders · jacket · anthology · bookstore
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, paperback, hardcover
trade booktextbook
Academic subject manual
technical manual · monograph · reference book · academic journal · journal
trade bookself-published book
Work issued by its creator
limited edition · samizdat · manuscript · galley proof · pamphlet
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