paperback
n [C, U] book bound in a flexible paper cover 简装书; 平装书
a cheap paperback 廉价简装书
When is the novel coming out in paperback? 那部小说的平装本什麽时候出版?
[attrib 作定语]
a paperback book, edition 平装的书、 版本. Cf 参看 hardback (hard1).
But here we come up against the most difficult of all obstacles to contact with people on other planets ----the astronomical distances which separate us.