noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hardback/paperback edition
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The paperback edition costs £7.99.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The hardback version spent three weeks on the Times bestseller list.
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The book is published by HarperCollins, and costs $15 in hardback and $4.95 in paperback.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At present hardbacks are just too expensive at around £15.99 a time; these prices do not encourage experimental or sample reading.
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Case bound a hardback book made with stiff outer covers.
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Her sales have grown with each title; this is the first to have had a hardback .
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It has sold 300,000 copies in hardback .
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Letters published in FlyPost will receive a newly-launched hardback book.
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Paperbacks in general had pushed aside the hardback , except for the specialized and coffee table markets.
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These are large format, high quality editions produced to the standards you expect only from hardbacks.