I am pretty excited that Skeleton Church is now available
as a paperback because this makes it more accessible to more people so that more Christians can now live like Jesus in the world.
I am pretty excited that this book is now available
as a paperback because this makes it more accessible to more people so that more Christians can now live like Jesus in the world.
Not exact matches
Teachers can use the slim
paperbacks (under 150 pages) in the social studies classroom
because of the content and / or in the language arts classroom
as a new form in the genre of memoir.
As a general rule, paperback books are not going to bring in as much profit as e-books, because, well, product — paper, ink, covers, etc
As a general rule,
paperback books are not going to bring in
as much profit as e-books, because, well, product — paper, ink, covers, etc
as much profit
as e-books, because, well, product — paper, ink, covers, etc
as e-books,
because, well, product — paper, ink, covers, etc..
Therefore, for me
as a reading choice, a reader makes more sense
because in its protective case, it'll take a lot more abuse than a
paperback or trade will.
It is
because I am actually reading it
as a
paperback!
After this, Amazon introduced the short - lived Kindle DX, a large - format e-reader that didn't catch on, partly
because the market for larger - format reading (articles, journals) wasn't
as large or ready to spend money than the
paperback - buying contingent.
A lot of people choose to read books over an eBook reader instead of a
paperback book simply
because it is easier and more portable
as compared with a real book.
The publishers will have to adjust again, like they have done so many times before (
paperback / trade
paperback, ebooks
as we speak, the printing press) but they are well placed to slide in
because, after all, they have the lion's share of personnel, technologies and connections to have their work placed in the higher echelons.
KDP Print is actually the easiest platform to set - up,
because since you most likely already have your ebook on the platform, you can import most of the information over to use
as a
paperback.
It's no less true for an author: selling a book to someone ill - suited to your writing (or even «meh» about it) is great for that 64 cents (the royalty a
paperback pays), but not so wonderful,
as the reader who feels was ripped off is going to take it out on your reputation (
because most readers have no idea how little of that cover price goes to the author.
But that wasn't the case,
because the next time around I decided to self - publish a 300 - page book
as a
paperback and ebook, with the aim of getting into bricks and mortar bookstores
as well — so a whole new set of skills and needs.
Just a note: I don't buy a hardcover book for «how it looks on the shelf», but instead partially
because of durability / hardiness and how it feels in my hands
as compared to a
paperback.
Because I'm not buying the
paperback, I'm not buying a Kindle, and I sure
as HELL am not buying a PDF from freaking Lulu (does anybody respectable actually USE Lulu?).
Instead, they are buying guilty pleasures such
as hardcore erotica and gay fiction
because they are too bashful about being seen in public reading the
paperback.
It's
as if during the last century all printers decided to print only mass -
paperbacks,
because there were cheap.
Hardcover books are good business for mainstream publishers
because they can set a much higher price for them — so they usually come out first to force buyers to pay
as much
as possible, then eventually they bring out the ebooks and
paperbacks.
If I can sell 10,000 books at $ 3.99 a download, which I've been consistently able to do through Amazon, that strikes me
as a better deal than being able to sell 3,000 books at $ 12 a
paperback, particularly
because my royalty rates are way higher on downloads and I can jam out two or more of those downloadable books a year.
As a reader on a secretary's salary (and that viewpoint dominates
because... well, I have no choice), I can't rationalize shelling out $ 14 for an ebook, any more than I was able to shell out that kind of money for
paperback novels.
Bitching to an author
because you don't like the fact their latest title costs more
as an e-book than it will
as a
paperback THAT HAS N'T COME OUT YET, does not good.
See, right now I'm reading a Star Trek novel on my Kindle — which is super-weird,
because I'd also read these
as paperback books when I was a teenager in the 1970s.
o Although
paperback is offered
as an alternative for you to conveniently publish a print version of your digital book, we do not recommend you let automated conversion software handle your manuscript at this stage
because of the results it may produce.
Even though I may love an author and all the work they've come out with, I'm not going to pay for one e-book what I could pay for one
paperback, which I still wouldn't do,
because I can get 3 other e-books that I'm looking forward to reading just
as much.
This is again due to the collapse of the wholesale market in the 1990's which was almost all mass market
paperback, the need then to raise prices on mmps
as they moved more heavily into the bookstores, and the costs involved with mmp re the returns system (mmp are «returned» for full refund by ripping off their front covers, returning those to the publishers and the rest of the books are pulped
because that's cheaper than shipping those units back, which has been a real mess.)
You can't deny the eBook has less value than a
paperback, and cost less to produce, so please explain to me this thinking —
because I don't get it, and
as a result, most publishers can rot with their set the price methodology.
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.)
There's a fair chance that e-books have stopped their attempt to mass - assassinate
paperbacks,
because it looks to us
as if each have found their niche.
Paperbacks produce CO2
as well, mostly
because they are made of paper and paper production = loss of trees.
Today, new research from Mintel finds that one in four (26 %) consumers who have bought an e-book in the past year say that they read more than they used to
because e-books cost less than
paperbacks, rising to
as many
as four in ten (38 %) 16 - 24 year old - book owners.