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softback

(ˈsɒftbæk)
n
(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Brit a book with a thin cardboard, paper, or plastic cover. See also hardback, paperback
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.softback - a book with paper coverssoftback - a book with paper covers    
book, volume - physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"
pocket book, pocket edition, pocketbook - pocket-sized paperback book
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softback

[ˈsɒftbæk]
A. ADJ = soft-bound
B. Nlibro m en rústica
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Ludlow History Tour is published by Amberley, is softback, and costs PS7.99.
224 pages, softback, ISBN 9781486308491, RRP $49.99
The book, printed and bound by local firm Riasca, is launched this week and is available from www.ianberry.org priced PS29 softback and PS39 hardback.
Out of 500 first run books printed in 1997, 200 were softback review copies.
The 114-page fictional paragraph and chapter book is available on Amazon.com as a softback for $9.95 plus tax and shipping and e-Book/Kindle version for $6.95.
Sewell, M.D., Janna Franzwa Canard, ed., 450 pp, softback, ISBN-13: 978-0615956251, pub.
Once again, it is likely to prove attractive to ministries and other government organisations to help promote Bahrain at exhibitions and conferences overseas.Mr Weaver said: "Many ministries and leading private companies often buy my books to distribute at conferences and exhibitions, or to give as corporate gifts."I have printed 9,000 copies as an initial print run, and expect to do another print run in early 2015."The book launch coincides with a range of promotional events including book signings and talks at across the island.Again, his offering is published in three sizes, aiming to meet a variety of budgets and because not everyone wants to buy a large coffee table book.Above Two Seas comes as a large hardback priced BD25, medium hardback at BD14 and as a small softback priced BD4.
It is available in hardback, softback and e-book versions at $191.99, $181.99 and $6.09 respectively.
The atlas is an A4-sized softback of 144 pages, with full colour maps and photographs throughout.
The council also forked out for 10 Filofax versions of the yearbook at a cost of PS117 and 20 softback versions - with no diary - for a further PS77, bringing the combined cost to PS1,765.
via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes by Carl Hoffman, (Crown Publishing Group, 2011), ISBN-13: 9780767929813, 304 pages, in hardback for $18.30, softback for $10.73, and Nook for $799.