How long does it usually take for a book to go from hardcover or paperback?

Question

I wanted to buy the entire Twilight Saga on paperback, mainly because they tend to fit better in backpacks, bags, etc. for whenever I take books where I go..:P

the Borders store where I am had Twilight and New Moon already on paperback.

they don't know how long it's going to be until Breaking Dawn and Eclipse are on paperback, if ever.

so I am wondering if I should just go ahead and get them.

or how long it will be until they're on paperback.

but if it's a while then I'm just going to get them hardcover.

thankyou. (:

Answer 1

okay, i have two ideas

usually, it depends on the demand. this is just from personal experience, but I would maybe a year or so to have any book produced into paperback. The 5th Harry Potter book was produced into paperback about a year, and a month later. so maybe a year or so for Breaking Dawn and maybe a month or so for Eclipse. No promises though.

Just for kicks you could scope around on Stephenie's site

or even better to find this info, try the publishers: MT Books and Little, Brown. they probably would have this up

Answer 2

Hardcover books tend to go "Trade paperback" anywhere from six months to two years (paperback books that are the size of a hardcover, but less costly). From a trade paperback to a normal paperback is somewhere around the same about of time.

Breaking Dawn should be paperback within the next year or so. Eclipse should be paperback in the next few months. I find it unlikely that they won't go paperback, as the other two did go paperback. Keep checking back. Or, better yet, get put on an email list that lets you know when your favorite books go paperback, then you don't have to wait!

Answer 3

Eclipse and Breaking dawn paperback will come out around May of 2009. DAMMIT!!! I hate reading hardcover. Sigh* I'm planning to sell the hardcovers later to buy paperbacks. Ahaha

Answer 4

well i dont know any specific numbers but from experience it may be half a year, or something like that, because i bought the children hurin by j.r.r.tolkien in october, it got released in the september of the same year, last year, and saw it in a shop in paperback just last saturday, so it could depend on time, but also maybe the fact that hardback may cost more, thus, losin money, needlesstosay, paperback is easier to distribute and better on cost.

lol just a guess anyway. hope i helped you and oh get the book(s) now or later, dependin on what ye wants. :-)