Just
as paperbacks did not destroy book culture despite being ten times cheaper, neither will e-books.
With a 70 % royalty, an Ebook with a cover price of $ 4.99 nets me about the same
as a paperback does with a cover price of $ 14.99, but the opportunity to sell more books at the lower price makes ebooks the way to go.
Not exact matches
Strictly speaking, I have no right to feel anything at all about the way the Church is going, and no right either to remember
as much ecclesiastical history
as I
do or to buy and read
paperbacks on theology.
I have read several of your eBooks, but don't have any
as paperbacks.
«After all,» says Barbara Rogasky, an editor of religious
paperbacks for Pyramid Publications, «while institutions
as such are all in disarray, that doesn't change people's need for definition, direction and guidance.
If you prefer
paperback books like I
do, you can get in on Amazon
as well for less than $ 15 (And if you want the
paperback, you can get free shipping by joining Amazon Prime for free for 30 days!)
Lots of people prefer
paperback copies of books (I know I
do), and so I am making those available for free
as well.
Just
as I had no idea how that thin
paperback from the library would change my life, daters don't know what the next wave of mobile dating will look like, but if (we) is working hard to impact this ever - changing tool.
CreateSpace
does a good job printing
as well and I am happy with in search of the lost ones in
paperback.
Amazon Author Page: 4 out of 5 of these authors have pages Number of Reviews: each book has at least 186 reviews / 4.5 out of 5 star average Formats Available: 5 of these books are available in e-book, hardcover,
paperback, audio download formats, 3 of them are available in mp3 CDs
as well Publication date: These books were released between March 4 and September 23, 2014 Website: There doesn't appear to be a website for one of these authors.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that audiobooks and e-books are considered digital services and
do not qualify for the same type of VAT
as hardcover and
paperback novels enjoy.
My
paperbacks run between $ 11.99 and $ 12.99 and that's with making them
as inexpensive
as possible (meaning I don't make much from each sale).
Anyway, what would prevent you from also
doing your next book
as a Lulu or an LSI
paperback?
For the trade
paperbacks, the price range also allows WMG Publishing to
do catalogs and give 40 - 50 % discounts to bookstores
as well.
Do you think its worth publishing some of your ebook titles
as paperbacks?
It's seamless and costs very little to format your book for
paperback though it doesn't work quite
as well for super-short books of 40 pages or less.
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.
As such, the recommended word counts are largely the result of industrial standards and therefore have more to
do with the production requirements of
paperback books than they
do anything related to storytelling technique, artistic aspirations, or the preferences of readers.
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.
Much
as it pained me to
do so, the vast majority of my
paperbacks were thrown in the dumpster behind the studio,
as I was just
done shuffling a hundred and some odd pounds of book.
If it
does well
as an e-book I'll format for
paperback.
Releasing both hardback and
paperback at the same time or near each other probably makes sense,
as do much lower eBook prices, especially for debut authors.
Hi, Is the method suitable only for Kindle books or
does it work for regular
paperback listings
as well?
I worked with the author / publisher, Peter Engler, to get his publishing company set up and get this first book designed and available in both
paperback and Kindle editions, providing the last round of copy editing / proofreading,
as well
as getting the cover design
done,
doing the interior layout and helping him all along the self - publishing path to birth his «baby» with ease.
The delivery was also an ordeal, but Murder at Cape Foulweather has been born
as a Kindle book and a
paperback on Amazon and is
doing well.
Third: the new generations have always got the
paperback editions
as much
as the hardbacks, so they don't have the same nostalgia for Look And Feel of those
as do people who stared reading a while before
paperbacks became very acceptable.
If a $ 15 hardback is offered
as a $ 8
paperback while offered at a $ 6 or less DRM - free ebook (and downloadable in multiple formats at that,
as is
done at http://www.Baen.com) then there would not be so much the of the piracy issue for everyone to worry about.
As the exclusive deals that Amazon has just struck mainly permeate in the digital world, it
does have a profound effect on the
paperback world.
The Scarlet Letter was required reading in my high school
as well, but the district didn't pay for it; we had to buy our own
paperbacks for some reason.
Even so, these same publishers who are so adamant about limiting our access to these e-books — and if you don't believe me, buy an e-book using Adobe Digital Editions and try to read it on a machine that isn't tied to that specific Adobe account — are more than willing to charge us
as much or more for the digital version than we'd pay for the
paperback copy of the book.
Do I need a new LCCN for the workbook which has the same title
as my
paperback?
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?).
You can also pick up a
paperback at any brick and mortar bookstore — if they don't have it in stock,
as them to order it for you.
But the way most current contracts work, publishers who fail to
do anything with rights such
as paperback, audiobook, and foreign edition rights don't have to give those rights back to the author until the agreement ends — another «forever» deal.
More and more publishers are recognizing that
paperback consumers don't want to be left behind
as hardcover and digital fans have access to their favorite titles in a timely manner.
Doing this can get expensive
as these variants often cost two or three times the cost of a
paperback,.
As for print sales in German, the market is more or less stable, we don't see a massive line of growth or a dip... there is no particular movement, except publishers tell us there is some impact in the
paperback market due to ebooks.
I had some small 30 - page books, that I didn't really want to publish
as paperbacks, so i put a couple of them up on Azon to see if they would sell.
I just don't seehow ane Book file could possibly look good
as a
paperback.
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.
The problem with general statements like Grodin's is that people will look at it and echo the sentiment, never realizing that his criticism was actually pointed towards the NY publishing houses who still charge up to $ 15 for an eBook — the same
as they
do for a mass market
paperback.
This leaves us mostly with
paperbacks and hardcover books, both of which, according to a Guardian article, are suffering «dramatically» (I don't see a 6 % decline in
paperback sales during a recession
as dramatic, but that may just be me).
One of my readers
does legal contracts for a living — she reads the books
as soon
as they come out and earns her next
paperback right away.
What is desperately needed is a better way for the typical reader to sort through the inevitable dreck to find those precious gems they will grow to love much
as we
did in olden times when a
paperback reprint went for a quarter.
Also, at no point
does it address whether selling my
paperback on Amazon would be sufficiently similar content
as to make it not allowed under the Select program.
Or will I need to purchase two 10 packs, one being ten 13 digits for my
paperback books and ten being 10 digits to
do those same books
as ebooks?
The cost for this ebook doesn't reflect economic reality in today's market given most consumer's budgets and it doesn't reflect how little ebooks cost to produce
as compared to
paperbacks - let alone hardcover.
The jury's still out if this program will even work,
as paperback giveaways don't always lead to reads and reviews.
I hope they get the kinks worked out for their own publishing service,
as they're on the right track with streamlining the service so ebooks and
paperbacks can all be
done from the same dashboard.