What is the meaning of Softcover TextBooks?
A "softcover" book has a paper cover. Mostly it is in the same size as the hardcover. The paper, printing and binding are common with the softcover textbooks. Only the cover is of soft paper, which results in a lighter (weight book) and is low-priced.
Softcover textbooks also known as Paperbacks (Paperback Edition Books).
Quality-
Softcovers include slashed mass-market paperbacks, in the standard "pocketbook" format. These are generally printed on second-rate quality paper, which will fade and dissolve over a period of age. Additional expensive is "trade paperbacks" in larger formats, which mostly printed on quality paper such as acid-free paper.
"A Format" paperbacks are 110mm x 178mm (4.33" x 7.01") in size
"B Format" paperbacks are 130mm x 198mm (5.12" x 7.8")
"C Format" (trade paperbacks) are 135mm x 216mm (5.32" x 8.51")
A mass-market softcover (softback) format is a small, usually non-illustrated, and economic bookbinding format. Softbacks are often released after the hardback edition, and often sold in non-traditional bookselling locations such as airports, drugstores, and supermarkets, as well as in traditional (regular) bookstores.Business practices by publishers and book-sellers also change mass-market paperbacks from hardbacks. When booksellers finds that particular books are not selling in volume, booksellers may return those books to the publisher for a refund or credit on future orders. However, in the case of mass-market softbacks, this return usually means stripping the front cover, and returning only the cover for credit, while the balance of the book is "pulped" (recycled). The copyright page often carries a warning that anyone who buys a book, which missing its front cover. It should assume that the publisher has received no payment and the author has received no royalties for that copy.
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Trade Softbacks (paperbacks) are typically cost less than hardcover books and higher than Mass-Market Softbacks. Almost all advance book copies sent for promotional and for review purposes are mostly issued in Trade Softback format.
Trade Softback Comics:
Trade Softbacks are often used to reprint several issues of a comic series in single volume. Mostly an main storyline or the entire series itself and the name "Trade Softback" has become identical with a collection of reprinted material. Graphic novels may also be printed in trade softback form. Publishers sometimes release popular collections first in a hardback form, followed by a trade softback months later. Comic examples include Tinkle Comics' Amar Chitra Katha Comics' and Krishna Comics' among many others.
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