Sentences with phrase «because in print books»

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What other company whose primary source of income is a printed phone book would take the time in 2012 to bother to warn investors that its revenue is in free fall because people don't use its product anymore.

Over the years I've pretty much lost interest in printed cookbooks because I enjoy and rely on the online reader feedback for recipes, but I'm absolutely sure that your book will deliver.

Choose print books for babies because they may find the animations and audio effects in digital books and story apps very distracting.

He wrote HIS OWN book, which will never be out of print because of a trust (I don't understand all the details, really) that he created, to ensure it stayed in print forever, so that people could learn about what TRUE health is.

It was possible to complete this book without his physical presence because much of the information has already been said in print, either in our books or newsletters, or on our website, not to mention in the thousands of letters and e-mails we both answered over the years.

It works in the book because things like that simply work in print.

He's the standard analogue man in an increasingly digital world; his books long out - of - print, Leonard doesn't take freelance gigs writing advertising copy because he deems it an objectionable compromise; he instead pecks away at a novel he's been working on for more than a decade, and enjoys simple get - togethers with his adult daughter Ariel (Lili Taylor, fantastic).

For example, you won't have to worry about printing out 500 manuals and booking a hotel room for your instructor, because all the information your online learners require is right in the LMS.

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.

Independent presses are small presses that publish STRANGERS» books because they fall in love with the books, and they work very hard to scrape together funds for advances, contracts, editors, layout, cover artists, advertising, and print runs.

The exciting news is that small publishers are more likely to change quickly because they have less invested in the old business model in which publishers kept such a high percentage of the revenue because they managed the printing, storage and distribution of books as well as offering editing.

This isn't a huge issue for me, because I have 17 years» experience using InDesign and by now I can create print books in my sleep.

This gets tricky, because technically, the publisher owns the final, edited version of your book, so to self - publish in print, for example, you may need to pay them back the full or partial editing fees for your own personal use.

I tend to keep with the above list, especially for science fiction and fantasy, because that is how print books in those genres (from trad publishers) open their books.

If you want to print your book to read through it one last time before submitting it to your POD provider, print the PDF file because it will keep not only your page size, even if you are printing on standard paper, but it will print the blank pages added in between chapters if you have your new sections always beginning on either the even or odd page.

There are people who like print books, and I have no argument with them either, because they, too, have a right to live their lives as they see fit, although I would take exception if they choose to «evangelise» their views, much in the same way as those who choose to sit in their imaginary camps of anti-Troglodytes.

PDF is the best media for my needs because it preserves the printed book formatting and layout, because of its «two pages side - by - side» display, and because Acrobat is very mature in regard to annotating features.

Someone who chanced across a reference to your book based on an old copy from Barnes & Noble can't find it because the B&N identifier is no longer alive, and may or may not connect it with a Kobo record in Books In Print which has a completely different identifiein Books In Print which has a completely different identifieIn Print which has a completely different identifier.

Her earlier books are hard to come by in the real world (two are completely out of print), and I've resisted ordering them online — partly because I want to save / savor them, and partly because I tend to stumble on them in bookstores at just the right time to read them.

«The attractiveness of some eBooks is likely to be down to a cringe factor, with more than one - in - ten people admitting they download books because they are more discreet to read than their printed equivalents.

They could be low - cost because — without print runs, inventory, and warehousing — the only expense left was in creating the product itself: the book.

If it's that readers really are, for trade published books, favoring print, I'd like an idea why it's that way — is it because of their product placement in bookstores?

For example, many fine art books, in my opinion, simply can't be made into digital books because only a bi print allows you to see the full picture along with the detail in an instant.

It's not because e-books cost more to publish than print books, said Michael Kozlowski, editor in chief of GoodeReader.com, a website devoted to e-book and e-reader news.

Another reason your trad pubbed books may sell well in print versions is because there are lots and lots of readers in that market — by the accounts I have read 60 - 70 % of total — and many of them prefer print, or to find reads in physical locations.

If publishers are «terrified» of e-books it's mainly because a) they don't understand the technology, b) they don't believe that people actually want to read books on electronic devices, and c) the high - level manager in charge of print sales wants to protect his turf.

Because you are in charge of your book's distribution, you don't have a middle man between you and your print - on - demand that can hold up this process.

It was a lot riskier financially of course, because we had to shell out thousands of dollars for printed copies of our books in addition to paying an editor and professional designer.

I'm a hybrid author, because I have some books still in print with traditional publishers, while all my current projects are in indie publishing.

Nowadays, with nearly 30 years of seeing my byline attached to things I've written and having authored a 3 volume encyclopedia and a history book, I still get that same ethereal shiver every time I look at my name in print or online because I know that having it there represents the faith an editor has placed in my abilities as a writer, or researcher, or reporter...

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.

If your book looks like an indie book and you can't tell because you never hold it up beside a professional cover in the same genre, and understand that most professional bestseller covers tend to have four or five print elements, then the gun just isn't pointed at that toe, it's tied to it.

I would argue they are significantly different services because, although both result in the author holding a bound book in her hands with her name on the cover, one involves a relatively large print run of that book, a distribution deal (we're still talking about HQN here), and branding.

Because of the printing and formatting details discussed in the first part of this series, I made several judgment calls for my own books» setup:

But I think we're going to see more print book sales in 2018 because people are realizing that they're spending way too much time in front of screens.

But maybe this shouldn't be a huge surprise because the print format still accounts for 80 % of all books sold and it maintains an important role in book marketing.

Other times it's because the author is so prolific that we can't get accounts to buy that many print books from any single author in a year... so we publish them in e.

Yes, Italian publishers may well have a lot to learn from what has happened in the US and UK e-books market, and hopefully the «delayed effect» on print books sales, as highlighted by Nielsen's data, will give them some much - needed breathing space to watch, learn and react — because when change comes it will come quickly.

We have no doubt it will eventually outstrip print books, but that is not a concern at all to us, and the majority of publishers in the world, because we all make use of this new technology.

As an indie author whose micro-publisher is in bed with Amazon, I can't get my books into such stores, which refuse on principle because the telltale barcode and «printed in» on the last verso page of my books proves they were printed by Amazon's CreateSpace — despite an independent imprint with its own ISBNs.

I won't have one for the covers, because there is only one hard and fast rule to stick to there: If you want to stock your book in stores, the book price MUST be printed on the cover as part of the bar code.

Electronic book covers are a whole different deal to print book covers because they must «pop» even in thumbnail form, and so often, it's the typeface that makes a difference between an okay cover and a really great cover.

For some major handicaps — for example locked - in syndrome — access to print books is nearly impossible, whereas access to digital books is easy because the text can be scrolled down automatically, for example.»

Is it because they don't have a high degree of confidence in their work to invest in print books (even though today's Print On Demand technologies make that almost a non-isprint books (even though today's Print On Demand technologies make that almost a non-isPrint On Demand technologies make that almost a non-issue)?

Until they take action or offer an explanation, it sure looks like this dating book is only in print because it's still making money, not because it makes the body of Christ stronger.

Then came the seven - figure offers: Howey ultimately chose Simon & Schuster exclusively for print because he wanted to retain the freedom to publish on the Internet through Amazon while also reaching readers who prefer the feel of a book in their hands.

There are certainly a lot of gems people have missed either because they were too young when the series was being published, the books went out - of - print too fast, or were never released in English at all.

Starting with the second (and easier) question: we are positive that readers» preferences matter because they are the end - consumers and if they would demand books to be printed in an eco-friendly manner it will provide a significant incentive for publishers to move forward and adopt greener practices.

Costs for printing books will be slightly higher in Case 2 because a smaller quantity of books is being ordered.