trade paper
Noun
Meaning
trade paper (plural trade papers)
A magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry.
Synonyms: trade journal, trade magazine
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Examples
If the collection from Hugh Howey, Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories (John Joseph Adams/Mariner Books, trade paper, $15.99, 352 pages, ISBN 978-1328767523), is a fair representative of the line, then much goodness lies in store.
One of the big reasons for the trade paper explosion is the massive increase in lobbying over the past few decades.