"January 2004: UK paperback launch of Well of Lost Plots. Short sequence of events to accompany this. TBA"

Now that, to me, suggests the paperback edition of WOLP will be launched in the UK in early 2004. Can someone please explain to me how this would happen five months after said edition became available?

I think the WoLP paperbacks I've seen in bookshops are of the larger-than-life hardbacksized but with a paper cover variety. Possibly the above launch is of the ordinary sized book.

I could, of course, be wrong.

rob

That's the Trade Paperback, Rob. They release them at the same time as the hard-back, then the paperback is released later. Don't ask me why. I don't know. I know lot's of things, but I don't know that.

It's looking like this is one of those things where the answer is rather more confusing than the original question.

It's easy - WOLP was published in Trade Paperback and Hardback formats. These are almost the same size but at different prices. The Mass Market Paperback (smaller) is being published in 2004.

It's becoming more common for publishers to publish original fiction in both hardback and trade paperback formats - not sure why. Some of them want the editions added together for best seller chart purposes but as they are different formats and different prices, we don't do it.

Oh, that means I have the trade paperback. Oooh. Sounds posh, even if it isn't.



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