paper book

plural paper books

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, book.
2. EnglandlawA document prepared in English legal practice containing a record or summary of the pleadings.
3. A traditional hardback or softback book, as opposed to an e-book

   "The link with the Internet disrupts the concentration that the paper book facilitates."

   2013, Joost Kircz et al., The Unbound Book

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   "Instead of cases of books moldering away in warehouses, your inventory consists of a single digital file, which any "bookmaking" machine can use to crank out a paper book."

   2002, Richard Curtis et al., How to get your e-book published: an insider's guide to the world of ...

   "The evidence strongly indicates that libraries and end users expect e-books to have the same functionalities of the paper book, and yet do much more."

   2003, Susan L.Gibbons et al., E-book Functionality: What Libraries and Their Patrons Want and ...

4. datedA paperback book.

   Publishers of the paper books are uncertain whether their old reading public has tired of the motion picture or whether a new class of readers has arisen.

   1919, The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, volume 51, page 11

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   Even more important to those promoting paper books was the stark fact that there were not enough book stores to produce an adequate volume of sales to sustain quarter books.

   1959, The Catholic Library World, volumes 29-30, page 464

   The ad—the first the department ran in more than three years—was inserted after the department had enlarged its space, using the additional area for paper books.

   1959, Stores, volume 41, page 34