How to Use trade book in a Sentence

trade book

noun
  • There were no libraries yet so people might trade books.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
  • In addition to selling books, Thursday’s event will feature a bookswap in which customers can trade books with each other.
    Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The company secured direct market and trade book distribution through Penguin Random House.
    Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • To friends and strangers alike, our unusual authorly posture—two spouses, both with academic backgrounds but neither presently working in academia, teaming up to write a trade book on a literary subject—is a source of bemusement.
    Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
  • The increase in viewership is complemented by the rise of manga – the comics on which most anime are based – to become the category leader in North American comics publishing, vastly outselling superheroes and other genres in the trade book channel and, increasingly, in comic book stores.
    Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

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