That being said, it's also true that e-books don't cost as much to produce or distribute, so they shouldn't cost as
much as physical books.
The criteria listed above define the publishing and distribution obstacles I need to overcome in order to deliver my
content as a physical book.
I wish legislation would pass that would treat ebooks
more as physical books to keep things like this from happening.
It is an extensive work, initially
published as a physical book, available in e-book form, and with plans to develop into other forms of media.
pdf format from $ 50 upwards,
as a physical book from $ 175 upwards, and the book will be signed by the Director, Charles Cecil from $ 250 upwards.
Comparable sales in Barnes & Noble's retail business, which exclude its struggling Nook digital business, rose 1.3 % in its third fiscal quarter, the company reported on Thursday,
as physical books continued to hold their own against e-books at the company and industrywide.
This differentiation
seems as physical books have various disadvantages over e-books (or e-books have various advantages over physical books):
My two favourite moments as an author were seeing my book on the shelves of Chapters Indigo in Canada, and signing books after speaking at a major event.Plus, for events, an e-book just doesn't have the same perceived
value as a physical book.
Most authors put up samples for free on SoundCloud and then use the same
tags as the physical book so the book is searchable online!
It's just stupid that you have to pay nearly the same
amount as a physical book, but they only authorize you to access it as long as they feel like it and have the ability to remove them (or even your entire account) from the device for no reason whatsoever.
Ebooks, on the other hand, well, they're pretty much the same
thing as physical books, except they need an expensive device to read them on, while books have their own built - in screen that is both disposable and of a superior resolution (no back - lighting though).
In a case brought to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) by the association of Dutch public libraries — Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken (VOB)-- the CJEU has ruled that digital books could be lent out by libraries in the same
way as physical books, provided that authors are renumerated in the same way as they are when physical books are lent and the electronic book has been acquired legally.
Publishers distort facts and paint a picture of eBooks being almost as
expensive as physical books — Nothing could be further from the truth.
Publishers and booksellers associations have expressed concern over an e-lending ruling passed by the European Union which will see the lending of digital books in public libraries treated the same
as physical books in «certain conditions».
Even for humor's sake, I find it awfully strange that wanting to see your
writing as a physical book would make it impossible to publish traditional, not to mention that the only alternative that leads to traditional is bragging rights.
«As long as the physical books [are] around, I'm going to be continuing with the physical books.»
Okay, so we know ebooks don't have a physical cover and can not be put in the same
basket as physical books, but believe me when I say, ebook covers matter and if you are serious in your writings and want to succeed in online marketing your book and thus, make sales, you really need to start thinking how to get a professional ebook cover.
We have to hope, however, that
Amazon as a physical book retailer does not decide to gouge the wonderful indies that weathered the storm this last decade and are managing to hold their position, despite the ferocious online cost cutting undertaken by Amazon.
Toll is currently running a very humble Kickstarter campaign (with only an $ 800 goal) to underwrite the costs of printing his DIY electric bike conversion
ebook as a physical book (you know, the kind made from actual paper, not electrons).
And those same publishers still curse the name Jim Baen for daring to spoil the foolish readers and letting them think 1) that e-books are good and 2) that e-books don't have to be laden with DRM nor do they have to cost as
much as physical books.
Barnes & Noble now represents more than 25 percent of all of the U.S. market for e-books, more than the company's share of physical books, and it sells twice the number of
e-books as physical books, at least online.
The plus is I don't have to keep buying new CD holders and — eventually — find ways of adding new space to accommodate them, as
well as physical books.
That genial term «constraint» probably refers to the «friction» that some publishers prefer you encounter so that ebooks, a form of book they can neither see nor touch, can be controlled in their movements, much
as physical book can be controlled.
A major eBook pricing mistake we see regularly is authors selling their eBook for the same price
as their physical books.
Those 10,000 sales will go down to 8,000 with 5,000
as physical books and 3,000 as ebooks.