# About the Vorkosigan books **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [November 16, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-vorkosigan-books/1024913 "2025-11-16T23:01:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 184
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> [@dtilque](#): > > I’m looking for MMPB I’m afraid you may be looking in vain. > [@RIP to the mass market paperback](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-to-the-mass-market-paperback/1025726): > > [Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks](https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html) They were already moribund - see the stats in the attached article - but their main distributor has said they’re done with them at the end of this year. It hits with a nostalgic pain, as I became attached as a kid/teenager to the Bantam logo…so much good fiction was (re)issued under that imprimatur and format, and I could afford it. Publishers will go to more trade paperbacks, but realistically it’s the e-books that are already the likely culprit for this, … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-vorkosigan-books/1024913)._