If
you buy the hardcover, however, send the receipt to [email protected], and you can begin listening to a free version of the audiobook (along with the other bonuses) in moments!
You can't even
buy a hardcover book for that.
So, read it you want to find out what happened to Carpenter after Mussolini was last seen crawling down Satan's leg on his (Benito's) escape from Hell, but don't
buy the hardcover version unless you can find it in a remainder bin for less than what the paperback will cost you.
The book will have to be a classic or by a legendary author before I'll
buy a hardcover or paperback again.
You can actually
buy hardcover books cheaper than the books at times because I just bought a slew of hardcover books for like 2.99 or 3.99 that I didn't have already.
That's part of the «decline» scenario, because honestly who would not
buy a hardcover print book if it was cheaper than a digital book.
Rasenberger: When a book is new, you can
buy hardcover or eBook at the same time.
I personally don't
buy hardcover books or $ 12.99 ebooks because of my budget, with a few important exceptions, like the last Harry Potter book and the last 4 or 5 Psy / Changling books.
The book will have to be a classic or by a legendary author before I'll
buy a hardcover or paperback again.
I do know, for sure, that what you're paying for when
you buy a hardcover at full price isn't the object.
Most new authors in SFFH are brought out in mass market paperback original only and don't get a hardcover until they build up enough of an audience that would be willing to
buy a hardcover edition first because they like the author's series and they want it.
Many people will
buy the hardcover in this case, but many won't buy either.
I couldn't afford to
buy hardcover books.
I couldn't afford to
buy hardcover books either, so I made excellent use of my library membership to check them out.
When you make an eBook, it is treated like an entirely new piece of content — like if you went to a store to
buy a hardcover and paperback copy of the same title, you'd still have two separate items in your hands.
The low $ 9.99 price - point of Kindle eBooks has led me to purchase many books in a «try before
you buy the hardcover edition» fashion — so I'm willing to make more impulse purchases of books to «audition» authors if the topic fascinates me.
If a book is only available through 1 publisher, and that publisher decides to ask $ 9,99 for a hardcover and $ 14,99 for an e-book, including a lot of restrictions in use (i.e. drm), a lot (if not most) customers will
buy the hardcover.
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.
The bundle offer will be about # 5 more than what it would take to
buy the hardcover alone.
They will
buy the hardcover for use at home and then rent a version to read on their phone while they commute.
For my part, I still plan to
buy a hardcover every now and then just for nostalgic reasons.
Most of the locations of these stores are in affluent neighbourhoods, where people can afford to
buy a hardcover for $ 40, a bottle of wine for $ 70 or a piece of art for $ 100.
So
I buy the hardcover books and try to get my hands on the ebook while I don't have the money to pay twice.
Now the opposite is true, it's more cost efficent to
buy the hardcover or paperback.
Over the past two years e-book sales have been on the decline and readers are actually finding it cheaper to
buy the hardcover or paperback, instead of buying the digital edition.
I am not going to buy an ebook, when I could
buy the hardcover for just $ 4 more (I guess it will also depend on whether you are a Prime member, because I forgot about that $ 4 shipping cost).
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.
When
I bought the hardcover last month, I was even more blown away by it; I was amazed by the recipes, and also by Jeanne's depth of knowledge and expertise.
BUT
I bought the hardcover because a few of my friends I know will want to read it after I loaned them Ready Player One!
(I read a review copy to prep for my interview with Ann, yet I still
bought a hardcover.
I bought the hardcover because it's a keeper but when I went on vacation, I dreaded lugging it around and wanted it in ebook.
There was suddenly a viable alternative to
buying hardcovers, paperbacks and used books.
By the time the PB is out they have either
bought the hardcover from Amazon for 60 % off or bought the Kindle edition.
I almost never
buy hardcovers, because they are too expensive, heavy and unwieldy for my taste.
I do nt
buy hardcovers anymore because, honestly they are just to big and bulky to carry around with you.....
I just
bought a hardcover of Stephen Pinker's latest book because it was about the same price as an ebook; I would have bought through Kobo if Kobo offered the right price point (they didn't, but Indigo sure did).
I typically do not
buy hardcovers b / c of the price.
Another possibility might be that Publishers think that if they make ebook prices ridiculous enough, users will just go back to
buying hardcovers.
All of them were on sale, except The Traitor Baru Cormorant, which I got at the Kindle Matchbook price because
we bought a hardcover copy for Robin.
I've bought the entire Lunar Chronicles (well, I haven't gotten Fairest yet) in Kindle after reading Cinder from the library — and now I'm thinking of
buying the hardcovers as well.
Furthermore, I think that people are buying digital comics and then
buying hardcovers and collected editions of the stuff they like.»
You don't
buy hardcovers because it would cost you a great deal of money to get them shipped to your home, yet you say that the ebook costs you more than the hardcover does.
I won't
buy the hardcovers anymore (stopped last year), but I'll preorder for Kindle and pay the 11 or 12 bucks.
I stopped
buying hardcover books (with a few exceptions) when I realized what a pain they were for reading the way I usually read — on my commute, in the park, in the waiting room, on the plane, etc..
Buying a hardcover copy is not the only way to get a textbook these days.
Not exact matches
Nicette Jukelevics Foreword by Charles Mahan, M.D. 304 pages, graphs, photos Praeger Publishers Media Type:
Hardcover Book available at a discount from ICEA.org (with membership or registration) and from Amazon.com
Buy your copy from Amazon using GoodSearch and the vendor will donate to the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS).
The Warner package — a well - appointed
hardcover booklet — tries to
buy its way out of this jam by bundling a CD with four selections from the soundtrack, three of them sung by Harris and one credited to Nero, even though his pieces were performed (uncredited) by Gene Merlino.4
If you're the type of person who loves to
buy game guides to get through longer games, then you'll be excited to know that both Bayonetta 2 and Hyrule Warriors will be receiving
hardcover guides from Prima Games in the United States.
Those authors are the ones whose
hardcovers I used to
buy.
Before the agency model, Amazon was
buying new ebook releases at the wholesale price of the
hardcovers, then turning around and selling them for retail at dollars less.