Sentences with phrase «buying more print books»

Another statistic that is being bandied about with great hope is that ebook readers are buying more print books but here is what I believe that statistic means.

As it is, even though I plan to get one of the Sony readers soon, I've gone back to buying more print books.

But I always bought more print books than I read.

I doubt I'll buy any more print books in the future, no matter how interesting they may look.

We buy more print books than ebooks, we're most likely to discover our books online — though we prefer to buy them in - store — and we almost always pay full price.

Not exact matches

You are more than likely looking at buying copies of that book at $ 9 / book, $ 3 / book higher than if you had printed them yourself as a self publisher.

The overall takeaway I encourage you to get from this: if people are buying print books, awesome, more joy to them.

6) ebooks since I can buy and read anytime and anywhere 7) I love print books and will not adopt these new gadgets 8) I continue to buy print books, though I read more ebooks.

With the ease of purchase and download and the more affordable price of digital over print, it appears as though consumers are quick to press the «buy it now» button instead of waiting for the book to become available through the library, either in print or in digital.

Print books depend on the lucrative holiday season to drive sales, as people tend to buy them as gifts and... [Read more...]

When a print book wears out, a library may have to buy another copy, so having more e-books could lower sales.

It seems the traditional giftwrapped tome is being trumped by downloads, after Amazon customers bought more e-books than printed books for the first time on Christmas Day.

According to the Public Library Association 2016 survey of more than 5,800 librarians, more than 90 percent said they do buy print - on - demand — POD — and self - published books.

Buying a Kindle, he suggested, led to increased book purchasing across both ebook and print formats, with a typical Kindle owner buying on average more than three times as many books as she did bBuying a Kindle, he suggested, led to increased book purchasing across both ebook and print formats, with a typical Kindle owner buying on average more than three times as many books as she did bbuying on average more than three times as many books as she did before.

(Libraries outside the US are certainly also welcome to inquire about buying the print books, but shipping outside the US is more expensive, and that'll make it less worth a non-US library's time, most likely.

So, really, except for the fact that you'll incur costs to buy and ship copies to give away for marketing purposes, the costs involved with printing a book minimally more than that of creating a digital copy.

When they find an author they like, they go out and buy more books from that author, whether they are print books or ebooks.

Amazon customers are buying Kindle digital versions of the top 10 best - selling books more than twice as often as print copies, the online retail giant said Monday.

Despite all of the dire predictions of the death of print books and the even more ominous — but genuine — predictions on the death of brick and mortar bookstores, this report is actually a good sign that the dramatic drops in book buying are possible slowing.

I also have my priorities straight — If I had the money to buy something like an Android tablet, I'd use it to buy several printed books instead and get much more out of them.

Simon and Schuster books are now selectively bought in print in my library because I have more funds for digital than print.

Additionally, when Canadians do buy a print book from a local bookstore, 17 % find out about the title... [Read more...]

And with more and more books being bought online (print as well as digital) there's even less distinction.

In a recent article, CNN wrote, «[a] s further proof of how digital media dominate today's entertainment, Amazon announced Thursday that its customers now buy more e-books for its Kindle device than all print books — hardcover and paperback — combined.»

Why this is changing: More people are buying print books online (vs. browsing in the bookstore).

It's a simple matter of affordability — the more books a company gets printed, the less they're charged by the printer (the power of bulk buying!)

Now, if I could «subscribe» to books on the Kindle, such as any manga on Amazon, that I could read them on the device as long as I paid the subscription fee with maybe an option to buy the print book at a discount, that might entice me more.

The shipping fees and the duty make buying books more expensive from CreateSpace, but I can't imagine what the total would be from KDP Print, if we even could order copies in the future.

While I am willing to pay a bit more to get the NYT and WSJ on my Kindle while still maintaining my print subscriptions, I would never buy the print book AND the ebook.

In May, 2011 CNN reported ``... Amazon announced Thursday that its customers now buy more e-books for its Kindle device than all print books — hardcover and paperback — combined.»

Obviously there can be a lot more contributing to the drop in sales — a weaker economy means less consumers taking farther - reaching vacations, for example — but if the trend that came about with the enhanced ebooks is solid, could this mean that people who buy books about business or technology embrace e-reading while readers who purchase travel guides or cookbooks are less apt to choose digital over print?

Livrada, the ebook distribution platform that first made headlines by creating an innovative way for people to buy ebooks in major retail chain stores via specifically branded gift cards for individual titles, has announced this week its partnership with Hooks Book Events to enable event attendees to select a print or... [Read more...]

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While I agree with Brad on some points (i.e., that there will be print books for many years to come) I find eBook reading a lot more convenient than reading print books and I seldom buy print titles anymore.

Between new tablets and the e-readers already on the market, there's little reason to leave the house to buy a print book any more — even from Amazon.com.

He suggests as win / win that a library should be able to buy a large number of check - outs and use them all in the month of a book's release instead of spreading them out over year or more, like the print book model.

The good news is that the same Nielsen study shows a significant portion of the ereading market buys more ebooks than they did print books.

Most e-books I buy are less expensive than print books anyway, and I'd much rather save a couple bucks up front than hope I can try to sell a used paperback for more than a pittance.

The device comes as the company puts more focus on its digital business, with consumers increasingly buying digital books as an alternative to print books, and healthy Nook sales helping to sell more e-books, according to the company.

Granted I work in book PRINTING I know many book publishers who have tried e-books and have found the returns not worth the effort, so are pulling out of doing them with their new books I know publishers who have lost serious money in e-books Mind you the fiction publishers seem to be ploughing on whilst seeing more people buying the printed edition and getting a highrer return.

Readers are more willing to buy an ebook from an author they've never read before than they are willing to buy a print book.

Those folks, in turn, may very well buy one or more of our books, be it in print or digital.

@samatlounge for me the split is fairly binary: I buy ebooks for myself, print books for others as they look more impressive when wrapped.

The iRex has an 8.1 - inch touch screen and links to buy digital books in Barnes & Noble's e-bookstore and periodicals from NewspaperDirect, a service that offers more than 1,100 papers and presents them onscreen largely as they appear in print form.

I believe that more people are discovering me through ebooks, than buying my ebooks because they recognize my brand from my print books.

And now that there is data about ebook buying, people who buy ebooks buy more ebooks than people who buy print books.

I don't buy this notion that ebooks are more expensive to produce than print books.

Whatever customers can not find in print, they can check out on an online catalog; the more they contact the store to buy books, the higher chance they will come back for more shopping.

My method of choosing / discarding a print book is to select a random page near the middle, if I want to read more after one or two paragraphs I check it out or buy it.

Going back to why I stopped buying print when I got my Kindle, now that digital books are so much more widely available, I can buy that $ 10 - 20 book for much less a digital format.