Generally speaking, while there was a bit of lip service paid to the «print vs. digital» debate, most of the speakers throughout the day believed digital comics represented a significant opportunity to grow the overall audience for comics, and even the lone retailer in the mix, John Riley of Williston Park, NY's Grasshopper Comics, said he's had «people coming in to
buy trade paperbacks of comics they were exposed to online.»
And finally, Penguin Books
bought the trade paperback rights to my novel, and this summer, Penguin produced a beautiful trade paperback version of Beneath a Marble Sky that is available in about every bookstore in North America.
Powell said that a friend of his suggested a new comic for him to try: «I bought the first three issues digitally, then
bought the trade paperback.
Maybe he'll
buy the trade paperback later if he really enjoys it.
I jumped on Amazon's MatchBook program immediately, and made the Kindle ebook FREE for folks who have
bought the trade paperback version of NEW YEAR ISLAND.
Not exact matches
Says Maria Harrison, whose
trade paperback of less than 200 pages was priced at $ 24.95, «Why would anyone want to
buy an overpriced book from an unknown author when they can
buy a wonderful book by a best - selling writer for less than ten dollars?
And, anecdotally, we hear from fans all the time at the conventions that were new to Valiant, picked up some digital issues during a comiXology sale, got hooked and
bought up the
trade paperbacks, and then moved to monthly print issues.
Trade paperbacks were invented for people to take on their holidays — why would you
buy 4 of those when you can have a kindle?
Libraries will generally
buy hardback and
trade books and tend to shy away from mass market
paperbacks.
Publisher John Wiley & Sons released its digital sales figures for several areas of its professional &
trade paperback divisions this week and the numbers could speak volumes about the reading habits and the
buying habits of consumers for both digital and print.
Trade paperbacks may be a little more expensive than mass market, but they seem to be that happy middle ground where the libraries will take them, and readers will still
buy them, especially if a few bucks are knocked off the price at amazon.com
Eighteen percent of romances are purchased in the
trade paperback format and only 9 % are now
bought in hardcover.
Nephilim goes live Thursday Feb 8th, but there's already a review at Amazon because the
trade paperback snuck out of the system early (so you can
buy that now!)
You can
buy many of these
trade -
paperback - style collections, sometimes at a discount over
buying the individual issues, via Comixology.
I can
buy two hardcovers for that, five
paperbacks, three
trade paperbacks, and anywhere from three to twenty e-books.
A long time ago, comics publishers realized that many readers preferred to
buy longer, more expensive
trade -
paperback editions of comics.
As an ISBN is specific to the format of the book — hardcopy,
trade paperback and eBook versions can't share the same ISBN — an author will need to
buy a block of ISBNs if they want their book to be published in several formats.
I
bought three books, including two by Gin Hale, in
trade paperback from Blind Eye Books a few years ago — I just checked and I actually found them on Amazon..