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2009.01.14
Although you can't JUDGE a book by its cover, you can sometimes PRICE one that way. But if the true value of a book is in its words, why does a stiffer cover affect the cost so much?
PAPERBACK / HARDCOVER ペーパーバック/ハードカバー
- A paperback is a book with a flexible paper cover.
A hardcover is a book with a stiff cover made of, for example, cardboard covered in cloth or leather. - paperback とは、やわらかい紙表紙の本、つまり、ペーパーバックのことです。
hardcover とは、例えば布や革を張った厚紙などで作られた固い表紙の本、つまり、ハードカバーのことです。
- a: Have you read Max Berlitz's latest novel?
b: No. I'm waiting for it to come out in paperback. - (to a bookstore clerk)
a: I'm looking for a hardcover edition of “Don Quixote.”
b: I'm sorry, but we only have that in paperback. - The third book in the “Berlitz Files” series of detective novels is coming out in hardcover in the spring.
Thank goodness the WordMaster opted for online publishing!