Crazy Germans...

[Shrain]

Tor is doing more and more of them, from what I understand.  However, their current philosophy is to do the trade paperback THIRD, rather than second. 

That's quite interesting. It does make good sense. Trade paperbacks do have a better shelf life than mass-markets. They'd be in higher demand, too, once a mass-market run has come out. I guess I just hadn't thought much about the advantage of releasing the higher-quality PB before the lower-quality one.
But I agree that trade PB books are growing in the market. I'd much rather buy one of these, personally, than a cheaper PB copy.