trade paperback

True, AnnaS...trade paperbacks are usually isssued as an interim release somewhere midway between hard cover and small paperback...but when projections are for a modest-seller, I've seen them released so close to the hard cover edition that it seemed almost simultaneous. They do, of course, try to milk the original hard cover sales for all they can get, first. Maybe, as you said, Anu's book is a first-release in trade paperback.

Now, more importantly, how do we get an autographed first-edition?