If anyone is interested, additional information can be found at
the back of the trade paperback version of Beneath a Marble Sky.
Not exact matches
Hmm, going
back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good ebook price being 75 %
of the paper version, I wonder if some
of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or
trade paperback version rather than the mass
paperback format.
Digital sales, direct convention book sales and
trade paperback sales pay some
of that invested money
back to me in the long run, but right now Skullkickers is still not in the «black».
Mostly I wait for remaindered stock or, at worst, reduced price
trade paperbacks, which seem to be about the best bargain given the high cost
of mass market paper
backs now.
She has recently been given notice that the
trade paperback of the second book
of her maiden trilogy will be pushed
back a year (Or was it two?).
When a book becomes a film, for instance, the hardcover,
trade paperback and mass market
paperback editions
of that book may all end up
back on the bestseller list at the same time, despite the mass market being the cheapest (and the e-book too — that's one time where the e-book price may be raised again because they know people will pay it.)
With the ebook revolution seemingly in progress, the notion
of hardback vs.
trade paper
back vs.
paperback looks increasingly silly.