Sentences with phrase «better than the hardcover»

And, besides, even at 17.5 % of gross, an author's e-book take is still better than their hardcover take, let alone the measly 8 % they get from paperback sales.

Paperbacks circulate better than hardcovers, and hardcovers with dustjackets circulate better than hardcovers without dustjackets.

Not exact matches

His previous book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best - seller lists.

Paul Tough's last book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best - seller lists and was translated into 27 languages.

The Secret has certainly worked wonders for its marketers: More than 1.5 million DVDs have been sold, and the book hit number one on The New York Times best - seller list of hardcover advice books.

His previous book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best - seller lists.

Hmm, going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good ebook price being 75 % of the paper version, I wonder if some of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or trade paperback version rather than the mass paperback format.

With capabilities to highlight text and take notes within each ebook, eCampus offers more than 100,000 digital titles, as well as hardcover texts for purchase or rent.

New best - selling titles often cost less as e-books than as hardcovers.

When the Association of American Publishers revealed recently that publishers now bring in more revenue from ebooks than from hardcover books... well, that is an earthquake of sorts.

«For less than the average price of one hardcover bestseller, we've made the best digital library in the world available to every corner of India.

I also have a twitchy back, so I have to say, when reading on the run, it is so much better to carry my Kobo than a 600 page hardcover (for example) on top of all the other stuff I carry on a daily basis.

DM: I agree on hardcover vs. ebook pricing — it does seem silly, and I have a harder time parting with $ 13 or $ 14 for an ebook than I do with $ 25 for a hardcover; call it the psychology of buying a physical good instead of a virtual one.

This Kindle edition actually costs 48 cents more than its hardcover edition, which is still well below the standard price for new hardcovers.

Believe it or not, some people still read traditional paper and hardcover books and what better way to hold your place in your favorite book than by using a bookmark?

The bookclub books my mother got in the 70's hold up better than some of the hardcovers I've seen in recent years.

In his previous book, «The 4 - Hour Workweek: Escape 9 - 5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich» (his subtitles are awesome), which was on the hardcover advice best - seller list for more than 75 weeks, he delivered tips like (I'm exaggerating only slightly): hire an overseas virtual assistant for a few bucks an hour and use the extra time to ski in the Andes.

At 7.5 by 5.3 by 0.7 inches (HWD), it's smaller than a hardcover book but larger than most paperbacks, and it feels good in hand.

Earn better royalties when you publish an eBook, better than paper back books, or hardcover books.

Kessel said that «for the top 10 best - selling books on Amazon.com, customers are choosing Kindle books over hardcover and paperback books combined at a rate of greater than two to one.»

Certain binding options look better than others (spiral binding is great for cookbooks, hardcover is perfect for fiction).

A lot of people like discounts, sure, particularly on bestsellers — which is why the fact that an e-book is less than a hardcover does well.

Well, at least the kindle version now costs less than the hardcover, which is proving ever more rare these days.

While e-book sales have been leveling off as they absorbed the replacement audience for mass market paperbacks — because e-book prices are cheap in mass market territory — the sector of e-books that have been selling the best are the first - run new bestsellers — the ones with the highest e-book prices initially (although those prices come down over time, just like a paperback edition and the e-book prices are lower than hardcover and trade paper usually.)

My husband, he just bought the new John Sandford e-book, for slightly less than the hardcover — felt it was a good value because he wanted it.

Ebooks (at best) are selling for less than 50 % of the hardcover price — often at 35 - 40 %.

If he wasn't making out better on his ebook sales than he was on his hardcover sales, then he had a shitty contract deal with his publishers, because Amazon offers much better royalty rates for ebooks than you'll get from a traditional publisher for hardcovers.

It makes the value proposition that much better, as anyone who reads more than just occasionally can almost certainly recoup the cost of the device through the fact that e-books are generally less expensive than hardcovers or paperbacks — and many great, classic e-books are free.

There is no good reason for this, other than to protect hardcover sales.

Yes, it's $ 40 more than the Glo, but heck, $ 40 extra bucks (that's one, maybe 2 hardcover books in price, not a HUGE deal... I mean if you're in the e-reader market, I don't think you're down to choosing between food or an e-reader — no disrespect meant there with that comment by the way) and the bigger, better screen is a real quantitative plus.