Their profit margins on hardcovers are
bigger than paperbacks and ebooks, ergo it's in their interest to protect hardcover sales.
Ebooks are now THE dominant sales format for adult fiction; bigger than hardcover,
bigger than paperback.
Not exact matches
In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights,
Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less
than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny
paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.
It's a
big book —
bigger in size
than your normal
paperback, and over 300 pages.
The surface area and weight is similar to a
paperback (clearly no coincidence) and, because of this, browsing content while on the go is nicer, more private experience
than the
bigger iPad.
Another
big advantage of the Paperwhite is it weighs just 222 grams and is just 9.1 mm thick, which means it is a lighter and considerably thinner
than most
paperbacks.
Even a small mass market
paperback at 6.9 ″ is
bigger than the current 6 ″ Kindle format.
And within a month Write About Me reached # 1 on Amazon, and to date, five years later, more
than 100,000 copies have been downloaded in the world's
biggest e-book store and thousands of
paperback copies are sitting on people's bookshelves around the world.
Fewer
than 700
Big Five authors and fewer
than 500 small - or - medium publisher authors who debuted in the last 10 years are now earning $ 25,000 a year or more on Amazon — from all of their hardcover,
paperback, audio and ebook editions combined.
The
biggest bookseller on the planet, Amazon, announced May 18th that it now sells more ebooks
than paperbacks and hardcovers combined.
Fewer
than 700
Big Five authors authors who debuted in the last 10 years are now earning $ 25,000 a year or more on Amazon — from all of their hardcover,
paperback, audio and ebook editions combined.
Crunching the numbers, I can sell more ebooks in a shorter amount of time
than a
Big 6 publisher can sell hardcover, s
paperbacks, audiobooks, and ebooks, all combined.
Are you under the impression that small presses charge less for their books
than the
big five who can do deep discounts and mass market
paperbacks galore?
First, do you see the goal of Hachette and other
big publishers to keep the price of e-books high; I've never seen the logic in pricing e-books higher
than regular
paperbacks, which they are largely replacing.
Integrating WiFi and in some cases 3G connections into its devices, users were able to download tens of thousands of books onto a device that was no
bigger than a small
paperback and would last a month, if not more, between charges.
«There's more plot, more character, and more high - concept craziness here in this first issue
than you'll find in any three or four collected trade
paperbacks from the
big two comics publishers.
When you read a
paperback book, the margin closest to the spine must be
bigger than its opposite to allow the reader to see all of the text when the book is held open.
World's lightest 6 eReader - Weighing less
than 6 ounces, the lightest 6 eReader around is no
bigger than an average
paperback.
Fewer
than 700
Big Five authors and fewer
than 500 small - or - medium publisher authors who debuted in the last 10 years are now earning $ 25,000 a year or more on Amazon — from all of their hardcover,
paperback, audio and eBook editions combined.
The surface area and weight is similar to a
paperback (clearly no coincidence) and, because of this, browsing content while on the go is nicer, more private experience
than the
bigger iPad.