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The publishing industry reported a revenue increase of 7% for hardback books last year compared to 2023, and more than 4% for paperbacks, along with an approximately 3% increase for e-books.
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Dean Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Ideal as a Christmas or birthday gift or just as a way to inspire young minds, this large-format, full-colour hardback is a must-have for every child's bookshelf.
—The Week Junior, theweek, 3 Oct. 2024
The videos show them slowly but fluently reading a hardback book, filling in a crossword puzzle, and playing cards.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 May 2024
The 296-page hardback book with 260 illustrations published by Phaidon is available for $69.95.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Dean Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Ideal as a Christmas or birthday gift or just as a way to inspire young minds, this large-format, full-colour hardback is a must-have for every child's bookshelf.
—The Week Junior, theweek, 3 Oct. 2024
The videos show them slowly but fluently reading a hardback book, filling in a crossword puzzle, and playing cards.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 May 2024
The 296-page hardback book with 260 illustrations published by Phaidon is available for $69.95.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hardback
Noun
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Related Stories The exact paperback still sits on a bookshelf in his Upper West Side home to this day.—
Anna Tingley,
Variety,
6 June 2025
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The first season of Stranger Things, released way back in 2016, was eerie and quaint, a horror paperback brought to life with a killer soundtrack.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
2 June 2025
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The Experiment, paperbound, 2014).—
Jessica Wapner,
Scientific American,
16 Nov. 2020
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As the first nodes of the internet were being wired together, the Catalog became a paperbound search engine.—
Fred Turner,
Harper's magazine,
10 Jan. 2019
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“Hardback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hardback. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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