Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in paperback....

[Scellanis]

just incase anyone is interested I just got this from Bloomsburry....

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is delighted to announce that HARRY POTTER AND
THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, the latest in the bestselling series, will be
published in paperback at £7.99 on Saturday 10th July 2004. The book will
be published simultaneously in two paperback editions, one for children
and one jacketed for the adult market.

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX became the fastest selling book
of all time when it was published in hardback on June 21st 2003, and sold
1,777,541 copies in one day in the UK, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Scholastic US will publish the American paperback edition of HARRY POTTER
AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX on 10th August 2004.

[Jotomicron]

Hmm... Excuse me... but what's the difference between 'hardback' and 'paperback'?

[Scellanis]

Hardback are bigger and double the price, paperback you can put in a bag and take on a train with you without needing a whole extra suitcase to carry it in...also paperback is a cheaper way to read the book to pieces, alot of people want to save the hardbacks and keep em neat and clean....Hardback on the other hand are much more useful for throwing at people and using as a weapon.....

[Ferrus]

but what's the difference between 'hardback' and 'paperback'?

Hard back is your version of OotP, its got hard covers.
Soft back is a book thats got soft covers (like most textbooks)

[Jotomicron]

Thx... In Portugal, there are no hardback versions of HP... What a shame!!!
Nevertheless, OotP in Portugal (softback) is almost as expensive as the UK harback version...

[choki]

I wonder...since OotP is so thick, it will be better to have hardback/hardcover.

[Athena Appleton]

Sonkem: I love your definitions of hardback and softback books!!!!

Whoever: Sayin most textbooks are softbacks are misleading... in the US (at least, in the Texas part of the US), almost all textbooks are hardback.

I personally prefer reading softback books, and am frankly annoyed that they aren't issued at the same time, because now I'm going to get the softback and have this hardback lying around taking up space. And, by the way, the OotP hardback takes up a LOT of space.

[Ferrus]

Whoever: Sayin most textbooks are softbacks are misleading... in the US (at least, in the Texas part of the US), almost all textbooks are hardback.

wierd. in Spain NO text books ard hard cover... I suppose its a sort of cultural thingy...

And, by the way, the OotP hardback takes up a LOT of space.

the Soft backed OotP is still going to take up a considerable amount of space

[Scellanis]

you know, in Britain hardback is what a book is when it comes out brand new, propably because it looks more impressive and is easier to stand up for display in a shop window, they have a very stiff thick fancy cover with a paper sleeve over the top to protect the fancy hard cover within but when you read it the paper sleeve gets all messed up and bugs me like crazy. Hard backs are always huge, bigger cover, font, better paper, better quality altogether....

paperback then comes out sometime later with a thin flexible cover in the same design as the paper sleeve usually and these tend to be considerably smaller with thinner paper, smaller font and because of the flexible cover they are more suitable for travelling and are of course half the price so if you love a book its cheaper to read them paperbacks than hardbacks

[Athena Appleton]

you know, in Britain hardback is what a book is when it comes out brand new, propably because it looks more impressive and is easier to stand up for display in a shop window, they have a very stiff thick fancy cover with a paper sleeve over the top to protect the fancy hard cover within but when you read it the paper sleeve gets all messed up and bugs me like crazy. Hard backs are always huge, bigger cover, font, better paper, better quality altogether....

It's the same here... this is really interesting, all these people from all these different countries being part of one intenet community... i'm learning a lot!

paperback then comes out sometime later with a thin flexible cover in the same design as the paper sleeve usually and these tend to be considerably smaller with thinner paper, smaller font and because of the flexible cover they are more suitable for travelling and are of course half the price so if you love a book its cheaper to read them paperbacks than hardbacks

i read and reread books so many times I don't even bother with the dust jacket (what we call the sleeve you're talking about) and throw it away immediately. Drives my husband nuts. And I'm bad about breaking the binds of my favorite books from reading them so often, holding them open with one hand, and putting them facedown when my kids clamor for my attention... That's why I hate hardbacks in the first place.

[Scellanis]

I don't through the dust jackets away, they have the pretty artwork on them...I know I'm not meant to buy books for their cover but I do sometimes...got one about frogs and the Artemis Fowl books for the cover only...actually, cover art is why I'm into Terry Brooks too...lol

[Gower]

I prefer paperbacks because they are easier to read at the breakfast table
But no way I was waiting for the paperback version of Ootp 8)

[Nobby]

I personally will get the paperback of OotP so that i have all the books in hardback and paperback!

[Plep]

Paperback rules!!!

It's cheaper, easier to carry with you...and best of all, after a few years it looks like you actually read it, and not like it has been standing in a bookcase all the time...

[highsorcerer]

Actually, there are two forms of paperbacks, trade paperback and mass market paperback. Mass market measure 10.5 cm by 17.5 cm. Trade paperbacks are 13.25 cm by 19.25 cm. In the United States, trade paperbacks contain the original artwork from the dust jacket on the cover of the books, whereas mass market paperbacks do not.