Sentences with phrase «as the hardcover for»

Hardcover sales in adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebook - only.

So why exactly do so many e-book readers think that they are entitled to an e-book edition in their preferred format at the same time as the hardcover for less than half the price?

Why pay a price almost as much as a hardcover for an ebook?

Not exact matches

We might go with a printer to do case - bound hardcovers for new books, but as far as reprinting and the journal is concerned, I think createspace is the way to go.

This hefty hardcover book is all about the thoughtful details: from the cheerful cover that Gabby created with her kids, to the many pages of inspirational, gorgeous photography accompanying ideas for every room in your home, to sweet little DIYs, to Gabby's personal storytelling about how she manages life as a wife and mother of 6 kids while instilling values and fun and beauty into the everyday.

If you have been conducting a job search with the hardcover edition of this «breezy new book for job hunters,» as Time magazine (of Time Inc., rated one of the 10 best companies) reviewed it, you may have knocked on some wrong doors.

Available for the ebook, as an audiobook, or in hardcover, you can access all the best keto tips with the touch of a button or display the book in your kitchen, knowing it is durable enough to last through your cooking sessions.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Dark Horse Comics has announced that Eisner - award winning creator Mark Buckingham (Fables) is adapting four of New York Times best - selling author Neil Gaiman's prose short stories for the upcoming graphic novel anthology Likely Stories, to be published as a hardcover original graphic novel by Dark Horse Book later this year.

The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage by Ellis Cose Ecco Books Hardcover, $ 24.99 320 pages ISBN: 978 -0-06-199855-3 Book Review by Kam Williams «The End of Anger is an exploration of why it is that many blacks are feeling optimistic these days... [This] is a book about success — about a particularly privileged, even indulged, group of African - Americans whose experiences in many respects are far from the norm... In January 2009, on the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration, a CNN poll found that 69 % of blacks agreed that Martin Luther King's vision had been fulfilled... The election of an African - American president was a Rubicon to be crossed... No longer are there any excuses for denying blacks anything or for blacks denying themselves the opportunity to aim as high as they wish.»

Grace vastly prefers hardcover volumes to paperbacks, as their spines tend to accommodate her preference for color coded shelving that functions as cost - effective interior decor.

I totally understand the self publishing route choice, but should you be wooed by any of the large corporations and move to live in a cramped city and give up paradise, I for one, would pay the ridiculous prices to buy a hardcover as often as you produce them.

Becoming a literary agent was fitting for the girl who, as a small child, begged her dad to buy her a book simply because «it has a hardcover.»

I then became the editor / compiler for a four - book series of Fiction Lover's Devotionals published by BroadStreet Publishing Group as gorgeous hardcover gift books.

Book publishers have traditionally sold hardcover books to retailers for about half their cover price and let the retailers discount as they wished.

By high pricing on ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive hardcover over to the ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as well.

Given the growing affordability of e-readers as well as current book - buying trends — e-book sales surpassed hardcover sales in the U.S. for the first time in June, according to the Association of American Publishers — a bookless library makes a good deal of sense in the year 2013.

The value you use for total revenue would have to take account of the loses in hardcover (and paperback) sales as well.

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 book is being released by Cemetery Dance, a small publisher, and is currently only available through their website as an e-book — though you can also pre-order the hardcover for a mid-April delivery.

Similarly, the hardcover version of the book, The Chronicles of Downton Abbey which is sold along with the TV series also enjoys about # 3 price benefit for the hardcover version which is sold at # 12.99 as an ebook.

Once essentially no more than a museum of great works, libraries in the 21st century have had to reinvent themselves as a community - based center of learning and production, not just a place to put your name on the list for the latest James Patterson hardcover.

That's nice, but even for an author I really like, I'd rather wait another year for the paperback than spend twice as much on the hardcover right now anyway.

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And, as always, Barnes & Noble offers select New Releases at 20 % -30 % off and Hardcover Fiction and Non-Fiction Bestsellers at 40 % off for Members and 30 % off for non-Members.

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.

But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.

As for hardcover sales, Amazon said it sees continued growth in that segment.

In all of these scenarios, the marginal cost of production is not going to be even $ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over $ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last big brick Harry Potter novels cost a teeny bit more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much more), meaning that if we're talking marginal cost of production as the difference in price between a paperback and an ebook, we're not talking about a huge difference in price.

For all of 2010, it sold three times as many Kindle e-books as hardcovers.

Ingram's POD platform now includes the choice of hardcover or paper cover, as well as a wide variety of trim sizes and options for color interiors.

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.

I've always thought of myself as a paperback reader who would spring for the hardcover for «keeper» books, but the ebook revolution is making me take a closer look at my reading habits.

The 6 light model is quite a bit brighter, as you would expect, but the 3 light variety works just as well for ebook reading; both are designed to cover 2 hardcover or paperback book pages.

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks (PRH / Penguin; Penguin Audio / BOT; OverDrive Sample) is featured in this week's NYT «Inside the List» column, as the book debuts at # 10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list, driven by both the author's reputation and media attention.

Most major publishers offer the same thing when it comes to compensation for eBook royalties... as well as royalties for hardcover and paperback royalties... but it's good you're thinking about the different variables that might be a factor.

Dark Horse Books will publish Bait: Off - Color Stories for You to Color as an 8.5 x 11 inch hardcover album, with uncoated and white interior paper stock, accompanied by a cover illustrated and colored by Duncan Fegredo and designed by Nate Piekos.

So, as a control, I searched on the current New York Times best seller list for hardcover fiction.

Auntie Yang's Soybean Picnic was first released as a hardcover, with art direction and design by Neustudio for the 2012 frontlist.

I am a new Indie author planning to publish my literary, historical novel in hardcover (via IS) as well using CreateSpace for POD on Amazon and Ingram Spark for expanded distribution.

The book is published by Random imprint Doubleday, which means that Amazon controls price and discounting in the Kindle Store just as brick - and - mortar booksellers control price and discounting for the hardcover edition.

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.

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Secondly, and an important consideration for you as you work through the steps in our free eBook, Marketing Your Book for Holiday Sales, most of the gifted books will be hardcovers.

The new publisher is seeking $ 3500 for the printing of this collection of Tezuka short stories which it plans to release as 2000 limited edition hardcovers.

Most debut fiction titles first appear on bookstore shelves as a cloth bound hardcover with a dust jacket — likewise for debut titles in the history, biography, science, and social studies genres.

This title had only been available as an expensive hardcover for over a year.

Having written a good non-fiction book that focuses on an aspect of city / urban planning (THAT will help you sleep at night) I have always believed that it would make a great textbook or at least required reading — but for college kids as noted above at over $ 40 for the hardcover it was cost prohibitive, I now have a way to repackage the ebook that is on Amazon (with 65 images) and try to create something more exciting and interesting.

Nothing on earth compares to opening a new hardcover for the first time, the resistance that the book gives as you pull its covers back to slip into what it holds inside.

Publishers fought and won the ability to raise eBook prices, sometimes charging as much for digital copies as hardcover print versions.