An edition of a book intended for general sale rather than for book clubs or specialist suppliers.
普通版（指供一般销售而非满足读书俱乐部或专业供应商的图书版本）
Example sentencesExamples
This is a plain trade edition - the kind of book for which we now pay, maybe, $8.50.
If the limited edition emphasizes fragmentation and reading as decomposition, the trade edition, binding word and image face to face in a codex volume, emphasizes reunion.
Each format has its own virtues, but the trade edition will be the best choice for most people.
And then who sets the price for the paperback and trade editions?
In terms of the dramatic interplay of word, image, and book, the trade edition and the magnificent Scolar Press limited edition are most suggestive.
Definition of trade edition in US English:
trade edition
noun
An edition of a book intended for general sale rather than for book clubs or specialist suppliers.
普通版（指供一般销售而非满足读书俱乐部或专业供应商的图书版本）
Example sentencesExamples
This is a plain trade edition - the kind of book for which we now pay, maybe, $8.50.
Each format has its own virtues, but the trade edition will be the best choice for most people.
In terms of the dramatic interplay of word, image, and book, the trade edition and the magnificent Scolar Press limited edition are most suggestive.
And then who sets the price for the paperback and trade editions?
If the limited edition emphasizes fragmentation and reading as decomposition, the trade edition, binding word and image face to face in a codex volume, emphasizes reunion.