Hard covers and lack thereof

[pynchonoid]

The French can make nice books, but I wonder if the
market for hard-bound books is restricted to a
smaller, book fancier/collector market segment. A
Parisian friend's father had books bound in leather
for his  library.  I've got Proust, Rabelais, and some
other authors in the Bibliotechque de la Pleiade
edition, expensive but well-made books always are, in
my experience. 


> > As someone who enjoys reading books in French I
> have always been  
> > puzzled by the fact that there are almost no
> hardcover first  
> > editions in France. It's paperback from the very
> beginning, like it  
> > or not. Does anybody know why is it so?
> 

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