Panken went to work at age 12, working first making purses and pocketbooks. I'd go out and hit kids and take their money and rob everybody's pocketbooks. The music-listening public felt less like fans and more like open pocketbooks being drained. Its price of $29.50 appealed to Depression-stretched pocketbooks. Some small paperback books are sub-classified as pocketbooks. Later he would claim that the advent of "pocketbooks" saved his literary life. The drama anthology also has a paperback (pocketbooks) novels under ABS-CBN Publishing. Pocketbooks is an indiepop band formed in London in 2006. PocketBooks in the US very much wanted more realistic covers. "The Selling of the President 1968", Oct. 1970, PocketBooks (Simon & Schuster).