Sentences with phrase «cheaper than a paperback»

Ebooks cause no storage costs and very small delivery costs, can be sold with fewer intermediaries... they should be significantly cheaper than paperbacks, all the time.

Books should be cheaper than paperbacks, but that stuff is set by the publishers.

They were half the cost of a hardcover and cheaper than a paperback.

It's gouging in my book... When we buy an Ebook there is no printing or shipping costs so shouldn't they at least be cheaper than the paperback??

Sometimes the ebooks are cheaper than paperbacks at import prices, too (considering I don't live in the US).

Not exact matches

Suffice to say, if you have yet to read Yes Please by Amy Poehler I recommend purchasing the paperback edition, as it is way cheaper than the e-book.

Then often the ebook price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then than the price for the hardcover book, later when you can buy the paperback it is usually cheaper than the ebook, because that was priced after the hardcover and since book prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.

I agree with Arphaxad but would like to add that I can many times buy a paperback book cheaper than the eBook.

You might have noticed that eBooks tend to cost less than paperback books — there's a general consumer expectation that they should be a bit cheaper.

First of all, the Kindle books are relatively cheaper than the physical paperback editions.

Ebooks could have been a transformative sea change in how we read books but instead are nothing more than a second - rate alternative to cheap paperbacks.

According to the AV Club «The mass - market edition of Mockingbird — which currently features silhouetted cover art by Sarah Jane Coleman, but which is probably best remembered as the puce - covered little volume that populates the shelves of so many American high schools — was the cheapest version of the book on the market, retailing for a little more than half of what Harper Collins charges for its sturdier trade paperback edition.

With the Kindle, the Kobo, the Nook and others came a never - ending stream of new books, often free and always cheaper than the $ 25 - $ 30 I was used to paying for Christian paperbacks here in New Zealand.

Many are free; most are not, but they're almost always significantly cheaper than even the paperback version.

Grant you, the small screen and 320x320 resolution takes time to get used to, but I can read almost any format (some need converting, but that's quite easy), but its cheaper than the Kindle and I can read any book I want, not only those that Amazon wants to sell me at a paperback price.

I haunt the freebie lists because I currently don't have the money to buy more than maybe one, or sometimes two to three if we are talking the cheaper paperbacks, traditionally priced book per month and that's not enough.

With so many people looking for 99 - cent e-book deals and other cheap ways to read, how does one sell audio books which are — sometimes — even more costly than the paperbacks?

The full story is here, but in short, creating a paperback at Createspace was cheaper than copying his novel at Kinko's, and the ebook was an easy way to distribute copies at no cost to his friends.

Most older e-books range from $ 4.99 to $ 7.99, which is cheaper than most paperbacks.

The New York Times's publishing industry reporter Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 For the people that are price sensitive — if you're not somebody that reads digitally because you prefer that, because you find it more convenient — but you're maybe a hybrid reader, you might get a paperback if it's significantly cheaper than an -LSB-...]

They'd like ebooks to always be the same price or cheaper than the corresponding paperbacks.

At $ 4 - $ 6 apiece, they were cheaper than either ebook or paperback versions.

While the introduction of competing platforms, and an uprising among publishers has led to more variable, and slightly higher pricing of e-books, in general they are still cheaper than the printed equivalent — whether hardcover or paperback.

The full story is here, but in short, creating a paperback at Createspace was cheaper than copying his novel at Kinko's, and the ebook was an easy way to distribute copies... Read More

One day it occurred to me how much cheaper it is to buy ebooks where I am, rather than the more expensive paperback.

This is again due to the collapse of the wholesale market in the 1990's which was almost all mass market paperback, the need then to raise prices on mmps as they moved more heavily into the bookstores, and the costs involved with mmp re the returns system (mmp are «returned» for full refund by ripping off their front covers, returning those to the publishers and the rest of the books are pulped because that's cheaper than shipping those units back, which has been a real mess.)

While e-book sales have been leveling off as they absorbed the replacement audience for mass market paperbacks — because e-book prices are cheap in mass market territory — the sector of e-books that have been selling the best are the first - run new bestsellers — the ones with the highest e-book prices initially (although those prices come down over time, just like a paperback edition and the e-book prices are lower than hardcover and trade paper usually.)

In general, textbooks in eBook format is cheaper than its hardcover or paperback editions, so you may save some money if you get them in digital format.

Just like paperbacks were cheaper and easier to carry and store than hardbacks, ebooks are cheaper and easier to store than paperbacks.

On Amazon, the paperback editions of some popular titles, like «The Goldfinch» by Donna Tartt, are several dollars cheaper than their digital counterparts.

Rather than pick up a cheap paperback of the latest murder mystery at the airport spinner - rack, you'll be able to purchase / download a book via USB and / or one - time use credit card.

Some small presses price e-books cheaper than mass - market paperbacks, which makes them a bargain.

I expect more satisfaction from a $ 20 book than from a paperback and I expect a lot more from higher price digital books than the cheaper versions.