1. hardcover - Noun
2. hardcover - Adjective
3. hardcover - Adjective Satellite
a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers
having a hard back or cover
Source: WordNetI've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. Don DeLillo
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. Alfred Hitchcock
Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree. Adam Ross
Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read. David Sedaris
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me. Ian Frazier
Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop. Jeremy Robinson