trade book


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trade book

n.
A book published for distribution to the general public through booksellers.
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trade book

or

trade edition

n
(Journalism & Publishing) an ordinary edition of a book sold in the normal way in shops, as opposed to a de luxe or mail-order edition
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trade′ book`


n.
a book of general interest available through an ordinary book dealer, as distinguished from a limited-edition book or textbook.
[1940–45]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.trade book - a book intended for general readershiptrade book - a book intended for general readership
book - a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics"
best seller, bestseller - a book that has had a large and rapid sale
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We used reliable, popular search engines to generate a complete, current data pool of trade book titles published in the last two decades.
Hyperion, the adult trade book publishing unit of ABC Inc, has announced that it is to publish a memoir by Dina Matos McGreevey, the ex-wife of former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey.
As CCSS (2010) encourages elementary teachers to incorporate multiple perspectives of an event, no single trade book could independently fulfill this requirement.
Random House Graphic (RHG), a new imprint of English-language children's trade book publisher Random House Children's Books, revealed on 18 July that it will launch its inaugural publishing list next Spring.
To initially unpack the EDP, we read aloud to the class a biography about an engineer or a trade book that contains an obvious problem.
In this article, I provide an activity for using a trade book, Separate is Never Equal (Tonatiuh, 2014).
US-based consumer book publisher HarperCollins Publishers has acquired the trade book assets of AMACOM from the American Management Association International, the company said.
Random House Children's Books is the world's largest English-language children's trade book publisher.
Rupert Murdoch's reported plans to bolster his book-publishing prowess by gobbling up the Penguin Group publishing company have been thwarted in a pre-emptive move by a German rival that will create the world's largest trade book publisher.
They're good for 40mpg, still respectable, hardy and practical, but the trade book has sunk to just pounds 3,800.
The Random House Publishing Group is a division of Random House Inc, the US company of Random House, which is the trade book publishing division of Bertelsmann AG.
In 2000 we decided to implement a reading project in our course that required all students to read a trade book. (Trade books are different from textbooks in that they are published for a wide audience, e.g., the general public.) The assignment initially required a two-page, typed report from each student that was graded according to the quality of the writing and analysis.