If a book dealer says “cardcover” does that mean soft cover (paper back) or is it something else?
Thx!
Maybe not a simple question…
lol, right!
The term confuses me, it may be an australian word for paperback, but I don’t know. I do know a hardcover is the same as a hardback.
Wikipedia says:
A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) book is bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with leather, cloth or heavy paper) and a stitched spine, although most modern commercial hardcover books have a glued spine, like a paperback.
Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding.
Thx Joe! 
Yes, it confuses me too. First time I heard that expression…
Ah, well I’ll try and get the book from another dealer who has it as hardcover.
Or it’s simply a typing mistake, card - hard…