Sentences with phrase «as printed books do»

However, critics are quick to judge audiobooks — saying that they fail to deliver the same benefits as printed books do, such as intellectual and emotional fulfillment.

Not exact matches

After reading several of the posts on the «interpretation of mythical texts into a book called the bible» one is left to wonder how a being who is supposed to have created the universe would permit what is often referred to as «his inerrant words»... to get so screwed up... you would think he / she / it would have been keeping a close eye on a book that he / she / it wanted to have in print for... mass distribution... it is not not a womder the bible is messed up the way it is... it is a «human» construct... only humans could mess a book up that badly... gods do nor make mistakes... except for Rick Santorum

even my daughter would understand this as meaning that there was once a book in whatever language and then someone printed it in another one and there was an issue... it doesn't state that the FIRST bible ever was in latin now did it?

Finding # 3 in the Scholastic poll says, «Kids want books in print — as opposed to in electronic format — even more than they did two years ago.

But it was also true that before the printing press, the scrolls (and later the handwritten books you had access to in your library) varied, as did the order in which you chose to keep them on your shelves.

that does not include atheism i hope all atheists would die and be reincarnated as tree's that are then cut down to print «Quran's and bible's on =D that would be awesome that being said i do nt beleive god (meaning the «one» god that is in many religions) would condem postponing your fast untill after the games ive never put much stock in what so called holly men have to say its all about your perseption of your holy book

For anyone who enjoys Mark Twain's writings, as I do, he wrote «Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven», which first appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and which was later published in book form.

The specific brand of chocolate was not printed as part of her recipe, but it does appear in the narrative in her book, so I've made sure to include it here (especially in light of my own experiences).

And if you've always wanted to publish & sell your very own cookbook or print a collection of family recipes into a beautiful book as a wedding gift or keepsake, you can now do so through our new partner, Blurb!

As I'm working on my newest book (not sure if it will be an ebook or printed — what do you think!?)

I also do a few hours every now and then for my local library service, which is great as I get to read all the kids books and dream up new illustrations or prints for them.

Ina May also went into some detail about the traveling she has done as a speaker and a researcher and how much, rich information on natural birth is being lost to history and can now only be found in very rare and often out of print medical books.

Referring to Powers of Ten as an inspiration, he added that «doing it in a printed book slows things down, in a good way.»

Printed by a small publishing company known for other scientific masterpieces such as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not Talk About Fight Club, Campbell's book quickly hit the word - of - mouth circuit and skyrocketed towards bestseller status, with sales exceeding half a million copies to date.

As he does, «The Little Prince» makes a remarkable stylistic leap from the accomplished but familiar CG environs of these opening scenes (big - eyed, bobble - headed humans; modernist - futurist design influences) into 2D stop - motion animation, bringing the world of Saint - Exupery's original story to life in beautiful handcrafted images based on the author's own crudely elegant watercolors (seen in the book's first printing and all subsequent editions).

On CK - 12, after doing a keyword search to find books or chapters on a certain topic, teachers can combine their chosen items into a single document called a FlexBook that can be printed out or saved as a PDF and used in class as teaching material.

Here are the 4 steps that you will do: - print worksheets - Teacher input using SMART Notebook - Children complete worksheet in their maths books - Mark work together as a class ** Please note that these resources are made to provide teachers material to teach the statutory requirements set out in the Year 5 Programme of Study for Mathematics in the renewed 2014 National Curriculum Framework.

Hannah viewed guided reading as a traditional instructional approach with print - based books, so including technology did not make sense to her.

As a side note, this book is MOST LIKELY to fit his data calculations, because it's been out for a long time; it's self - published and has been out long enough that there are essentially zero print sales; I haven't been trying to promote it much, mostly because I don't control the first two books in the series, and so there are very few big jumps; and I had a new release about two months ago, so the book in January is at about the «average» rank in its release - to - release lifecycle.

We indie writers are trying to sell to people who also read print books, and Big Publisher books, and we need to look as good as those do.

I really can't understand how anyone can imagine it costs as much to produce an e-book as it does to print a physical book.

It has a massive, vested interest in keeping print books at the top of the reading food chain, just as commercial publishers do.

If there is anything I'm slow to do as an author, it is to sit my butt down in the chair and prep my books for print.

Because of the ever - increasing cost of books, I don't buy as many print books as I used to.

Most book manuscripts end up unwanted and unread on publishers» and agents» slush piles, and the majority of those that do make it into print sell fewer than 1,000 copies... It's not even as if writing is that glamorous.

I still don't understand how publishers can hope to see their sales of ebooks rise while pricing them at, essentially, the same level as a printed paper book.

As for the first part — does it make sense to write books, whether print or electronic, anymore — to us, lovers of reading and writing, the answer is unequivocal.

[Another surprise, the teams don't have nearly the members working on a book as when it went to print.]

Draft2Digital does claim to be working on allowing authors to choose CreateSpace as one of its distribution options, which is alarming; by its own FAQ admission, «e-books and print books are fundamentally different media,» yet the site also states that a Word document can be formatted as an ePub within minutes, and that same uploaded file can be formatted for CreateSpace exactly the same way.

When going back to a scene in a printed book, I do not recall the exact page as my reading did not involve staring at the page number each time I flipped one over.

Parents of older children are more likely to say they do not have a preference as to whether their kids read books for fun in print versus e-books.

But when Barnes and Noble's Nook Press division announced last year that it was expanding what it can do for its authors by offering new services such as editing, artwork, and print - on - demand, more than a few industry watchers had immediate concerns: Barnes and Noble is the largest bookselling chain left in the US, so where did they find the talent pool to shift into book creation?

The mere fact that e-books are flourishing is proof that they can be just as successful as printed books, both financially and critically.More and more people are going to be going the e-reader route over the years, for reasons of convenience, as more authors will do the same.

Just as Tumblr transformed the standard of personal websites with its ease of sharing different types of content, PressBooks intends to do the same for ebook and print book publishing.

I've been working on my artist platform out ahead of the book getting done so as I ponder worst case scenarios I figure I'll, at least, be able to afford to print a few copies at Kinko's and send them out to my developing circle of friends.That counts as self publishing, right?

I do not have a love affair with the printed book as those tend to age along with me including the falling apart at the seams along with some amount of internal decay.

We retain all ownership rights in and to the copyrights and all other rights and interests in and to the Program, A&A Properties, and any materials we use or provide to you for use relating to your Printed Books & Digital Books (such as a generic cover image used for your Digital Book if you do not provide one).

Books are printed one at a time as orders come in.This has become a very efficient way of printing because you don't need to have any inventory sitting on shelves.

Best practice, as near as I could tell doing my research, was to have an individual ISBN for each different format of your book — which means not only print vs. digital, but also epub vs. PDF vs. whatever other format you're using.

Sales figures from the end of last year show that while they don't dominate the marketplace as they once did, print books are showing a good amount of resiliency during the precipitous rise of eBooks... Continue Reading →

As for the actual publishing, at CreateSpace (these are the guys I use) it doesn't cost anything to create a print book.

I've got a thousand or more copies of that book in my warehouse that I have to sell through before I can do another print run — and I need to decide if sales are strong enough to warrant another thousand or more books, or if I need to go to a small digital print run, in which case, I might need to raise the price (because small print runs cost more per unit than large ones, and I have to offer my distributor a 65 % discount as per our contract).

If the print publisher has the copyright over the print publication, partly because you let it do so as part of the deal that they «put it together» for you, and has also registered the print ISBN in their name, this does not stop you making an eBook (so long as it does not use the creative design work of the print book) and registering the second and future ISBNs in your own name as author — as you should have done anyway.

This is the reason Kindle owners read four times as many books — print and eBooks — as they do prior to owning a Kindle.

Buying a Kindle, he suggested, led to increased book purchasing across both ebook and print formats, with a typical Kindle owner buying on average more than three times as many books as she did before.

The Ingram Spark system is like that, convoluted and rather a pain to navigate, but they do a very nice print product so we continue to use them for hard copy, but now upload our own e-books to Amazon and B&N as those are the only two that deliver sales for my author's books.

Print on demand prints books as they're ordered so that you don't have to maintain any unsold inventory.

Strangely, from here you can «return» the book, though as Amazon notes in the fine print, the books don't actually have a due date.

You don't even need to order hundreds of books to participate in our Expanded Distribution Program — you can begin by printing as few as 75 copies.

Companies that simply print and / or distribute your book (either electronically or physically) provide a vital service to self - publishers, as do freelance editors, typesetters, indexers, and marketers, but none of these services is themselves the publisher.