Publishing practices

[Paul DiFilippo]

In the 1950's Ballantine Books experimented briefly with 
simulataneous hard/soft publication of several SF works.  The
hardcovers were cute little mini-sized ones almost the same
dimensions as the papberbacks, and cost, I believe, a whopping
$3.00.

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