Everything about Hardback totally explained
A
hardcover (or
hardback or
hardbound) is a
book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of
cardboard covered with
cloth, heavy
paper, or sometimes
leather). They may have flexible sewn spines which allow the book to lie flat on a surface when opened, although most modern commercial hardcover books have glued spines.
Hardcover books are often printed on
acid-free paper, and are much more durable than
paperbacks, which have flexible, easily damaged paper covers and glued spines. Hardcover books are also marginally more expensive to manufacture and usually much more to purchase. Hardcovers frequently come with artistic
dust jackets.
Marketing
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. 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 durable paper. 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, the paperback, is released to entice further sales.
Costs
Hardcover books tend to cost more than paperback versions of the book. This is due to
price discrimination by booksellers who observe that consumers are willing to pay a premium for hardcover editions over paperbacks beyond the extra costs in materials and production. Hardcover editions are usually reserved for authors who are (or are expected to be) successful.
Differences in structure
Hardcovers generally consist of pages, two boards, and a cloth covering them. Their pages are glued into a flexible piece between the boards, and it too is covered by the cloth. A paper covering, usually artistic in nature, is put over the cloth, folding over each horizonal end of the boards. On the folded part over the front cover is generally a
blurb, or a summary of the book. On the back folded part is where the
biography of the author and/or illustrator can be found. Reviews are often placed on the back of the jacket.
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