Sentences with phrase «average paper book»

For a book, you have an A5 format (average paper book) vs a phone screen.

Not exact matches

And in a two - week trial at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, published in 2014, volunteers who read on an iPad for four hours before bed reported feeling less sleepy, took an average of 10 minutes longer to fall asleep and slept less deeply compared with those who read paper books at night.

Assuming that on average your e-book purchases will cost about 70 percent of what you would have spent on paper books, figure out what that 30 percent savings is.

From what I understand from the report the 168 kg of CO2 figure is calculated based on the paper - books emissions that are saved while using the Kindle (in average).

The average person can't wrap their mind around why an ebook would cost more or as much as a paper book.

The print / bind / warehouse / distribute portion for paper volumes is about * 10 % * of the cost of the average book from a major trade publisher.

If we keep this process going for as many years more as this has been going on already, there is no reason average eBooks should not be as accurate, or even more accurate, than books being published on paper.

The average rate for paper books in the EU is 7.6 %; for e-books that figure stands at 19.9 %, according to the European Parliament's in - house think tank.

Parents say they pay an average of $ 5.37 per ebook, which is a 33 % discount on what they say they will pay for paper books, but 40 % more than they say they will pay for apps.

The rest of the average $ 7.95 cost of a paperback goes to the author, the editor, the publicist, the cover artist, the typesetter, and of course the bookseller needs his cut too, regardless of whether it is an e-book seller or a paper book seller.

We don't know if the reason trade paper sales have gone down (which Nowell reports) because most people don't like the format or because the number of retail outlets carrying trade paper books has gone down (witness the loss of many chain bookstore locations, where most trade papers were sold) or because given a choice between trade paper and ebook, the average reader will choose ebook.

Coming in future chapters are how to push paper books to bookstores, how to really use price discounting as a tool to sell all your books, business planning, book averaging in a publishing company, and so much more.

E-book will be for the masses, easy and cheap full of animations, links and music files designed for the average man, paper books for the upper classes highly educated and capable of concentration, paper books will be like a real treasure in the future.

Now, taking into consideration the fact that the average self - published book sells a mere 75 copies in it's entire lifetime, and the fact that paper is supposed to be dead, and add to that the fact that the number she gave me didn't even include sales she made through Amazon or other online distribution channels, but only books she ordered and sold directly herself, your jaw should be dropping at this number, too.

One of the examples for reading stats was like the average Kobo user has enough books in their library that, it would be like 56 pounds of books if it were paper or something like that.

I have stumbled across the theory / practice of timing the market based on moving averages — I read over a 2006 paper by Mebane Faber and noticed there is now a book out based on this (The Ivy Portfolio) from 2009.

Fama and French observed in their 1992 paper, The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns, that there is «striking evidence» of a «strong positive relation between average return and book - to - market equity» [«BE» is book equity and «ME» is market equity, so «BE / ME» is just BM, the inverse of P / B]:

The impact of paper Consider for a moment, the amount of paper the average real estate agent handles during a single typical transaction, from the marketing materials and often hardcopy of a CMA at a listing presentation, to the contract, addendums, title, appraisal and documents at the closing table, the stack of paper would likely be as thick as an old telephone book for a major city!