![]() ![]() ![]() “The disappearance of the iconic mass-market edition is very disappointing to us, especially as we understand this could force a difficult situation for schools and teachers with tight budgets who cannot afford the larger, higher priced paperback edition that will remain in the market,” said the email from Hachette, which also claimed that “more than two-thirds of the 30m copies sold worldwide since publication have been Hachette’s low-priced edition”. The Hachette edition retails for $8.99, compared to the $14.99 and $16.99 larger trade paperback editions sold by HarperCollins, and has sold over 55,000 copies since the start of the year, more than double the sales of the trade paperback editions, the New Republic reported. ![]() According to emails obtained by the New Republic, Hachette, the US publisher of the mass-market edition of To Kill a Mockingbird, informed booksellers across America on 4 March that Lee’s estate would no longer allow publication of the mass-market paperback of To Kill a Mockingbird. ![]()
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