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Mass-market books are disappearing from grocery store racks

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with publisher Esther Margolis about the end of the era of mass market paperbacks. These inexpensively made books were once staples in most grocery and drug stores.

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Daniel Estrin is NPR's international correspondent in Jerusalem.

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