That's not the format these books are taking. These are more traditional TPBs, both taller and wider. (Pocket's used a couple of different sizes, you'd have to look up what the specific dimensions are.)
Asides from Swordhunt being split in two when The Empty Chair was late, I can't think of any obvious examples of that.
IIRC, John Ordover has said that he did that because duologies and trilogies sold better, as opposed to trying to fill holes in the schedule.
Those two months when Mission: Gamma was released were the best of both worlds.
Although I remember reading as well that Palmieri wished that he could’ve split “Twilight” and “This Gray” Spirit” into 2 books (or even printed in a larger book) each so that the print size could’ve been enlarged, but he couldn’t because it was to late in the process as the story had already marketed to stores in the way it came out. Although it would be interesting to have seen a 6-Book “Mission Gamma”.
Yeah, I remember Mission Gamma 1 had not only smaller print, the new chapters started on the same page the previous one ended. Pretty dense reading for a Star Trek book. Thankfully, I had a long weekend off in which to plow through most of it.
Wow. That's kind of sad, all things considered.
Well, BritishSeaPower brought up Serpents Among the Ruins which also technically had chapters, so I thought mentioning the NF chapter thing wouldn't be too out of place. Plus, it still seems pretty close to the discussed topic.
I think E-Dub was talking about a specific variant MMPB size, that are taller but not wider. According to my very brief google, it seems like this was an attempt to make longer books a bit easier to read in the paperback format by increasing the line spacing. It never quite seemed to catch on as a new standard. Offhand, the Dresden Files series switched their paperback reprints to the taller version. You can see in this photo of a series set, three copies predate the switch and are in the shorter, traditional MMPB size.
