Nicholas Clee recounts the history of the paperback in The Times. He explains how Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin, didn’t invent them but popularised the format in the face of disbelief from the rest of the publishing industry. Back in 1935, publishers was resistant to change and stuck in the mud. And in 2009, it’s….oh.
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