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Trending today: the decline of mass-market paperbacks. With mass-market fiction readers switching to e-readers, the company responsible for stocking bookshelves in grocery stores and airports says it won’t be doing that anymore. (So what physical books are people buying? Longer, more scholarly books, Victor says – the better to show off how erudite they are.

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