Meaning of Title

•paper towns:a town that

only exists on a map

•Algoe, New York, as mentioned in the book, is a real Paper town that was created to protect against copyright infringement, but was eventually built into a store(which no longer stands)

•many mapmakers still include paper towns as copyright traps

•the author had a personal experience with a paper town in Holen, South Dakota while on a road trip with friends his junior year of college