WordNet
n. a book with paper covers [syn: paperback book, paper-back book, paperback, softback book, softback, soft-cover book]
Usage examples of "soft-cover".
The spherical chamber, half a klick from wall to wall, was lined with every known variety of book produced by any sentient race anywhere in the galaxy: chips, memory rods, cassettes and tapes of various compatibilities, bound and jacketed hard and soft-cover publications, scrolls, folios, clay, wood, and bamboo tablets, stones, bones, hides stretched wide on wooden poles, clumps of knotted rope, and a good many other artifacts whose identity the young captain could only infer from their presence with those other objects he did recognize.
As I write this, he is again serving as an editor, this time as science fiction consultant for a large soft-cover book publishing house.
Frigate had picked up in 1938 a soft-cover book by Fairfax Downey titled Burton: Arabian Nights' Adventurer.