Sentences with phrase «cheaper than the print book»

Your eBook versions should be cheaper than your print version, for example, Amazon require that your eBook be at least 20 % cheaper than your print book.

One of the reasons is that digital books are so much cheaper than print books and also that you can download a book to your reader within seconds.

Ebooks are outselling print right now, but ebooks are drastically cheaper than print books.

Whether it's the latest title from a legacy publisher's hottest author, or a graduate - level biochemistry textbook, there is a severe disillusion on the part of the reading public that ebooks should automatically be exponentially cheaper than print books, and it's a topic that hasn't made much headway in the last several years.

The ebook must be at least 20 % cheaper than the print book in order to be eligible for a 70 % royalty.

Well, e-books are typically cheaper than print books, and in most cases, you'll find it difficult to get print books in front of the noses of purchasers.

Ebooks are however about 20 to 30 percent cheaper than printed books in Germany, she said adding she expected the ebook share of the market to have jumped to five percent by the end of the year.

That's because of the really high ebooks prices which are, at least for the popular ones, rarely a dollar cheaper than print books.

E-books should be cheaper than print books, as their costs of production are minimal compared to print books.

And they're generally cheaper than printed books.

eBook prices must be cheaper than the print books sold in magazine stands or bookstores» said Surat Banditraksana, Porar CEO.

But unfortunately, I made the mistake of mentioning that bookstores obviously get a piece of the book's sales price — prompting another comment about how ebooks are much cheaper than printed books.

Over this period I have built up a library of hundreds of titles — often at prices not much cheaper than the print book.

Meanwhile 16 % feel that e-books should be more than 30 % cheaper than the printed book and 15 % think that e-books and printed books should be priced identically, with an equal percentage preferring Amazon's standardized price model.

eBooks should be a lot cheaper than print books.

Not exact matches

Free stuff is great, and free books and comics are of course even better, but despite this it's worth pointing out that both the titles I mention above are much cheaper than buying a single issue printed comic, let alone a graphic novel (a single issue of a monthly comic from Image may cost up to # 3.95 GBP; but The Kill Screen was initially on sale for half that at # 1.99 for # 1 and Mills released Psychokiller for # 2.49).

As for other companies: I used Lulu once to print a large batch of books since they were cheaper than IngramSpark, and I found out they were just that: cheaper.

I had to buy an e-reader (NOOK) last year when I had to do book reviews and I found it was much cheaper to buy an e-book than it was to buy the print.

Publishers don't believe that digital books should be cheaper than the print versions.

The price point in the early days, at least, was a bit cheaper than buying printed copies of books.

I like printing a few hardcover versions through Lulu (because it's easier and cheaper to set up than Lightning Source) and taking some media kit shots of me in a bookstore (doesn't have to be an official «book signing» — you can even put a few on the bestseller shelf and take pictures of them there).

However, even with ebooks coming much cheaper than their printed counterparts, a survey to ascertain people's reading habits has revealed that the majority of those polled read books online only if they are free.

Digital is still cheaper than print: This just seems like common sense, but digital comics storefronts usually charge the full print price for new digital comics, and print books are often cheaper than Kindle editions on Amazon.

Sometimes print books are cheaper than their electronic equivalents!»

This is only tangentially related to the Amazon - Macmillan kerfuffle, but might of interest to those who wonder why ebooks don't have a much cheaper cost basis than printed books.

If money is a challenge — at least get your book edited; have a professional cover designer create your cover; get the interior layed - out by someone who does interiors — you will spend a few thousand dollars if you do it RIGHT and it will be money well spent... then you can go the cheap route: have your interior designer load up to Create Space — at least you've get the visuals of a solid book on your side and the content solid — you've got mammoth Amazon there ready to do the POD print and you can buy the book for most likely less than $ 3 a copy (less than the pay - to - publish model — trust me here).

E-books also are considerably cheaper to produce and distribute than physical (or «print») books.

Amazon won and everyone who buys a digital book expects the price to be a) cheaper than the print version and b) inexpensive in general.

This is complicated: Are ebooks cheaper from the consumer's perspective, or do they offer larger profit margins than printed books, which are distributed in some fashion among the distributor, author, and publisher (some of whom may win, and some of whom may lose)?

-LSB-...] As anyone who follows digital publishing industry can tell you, publishers have been raising their ebook prices over the past several years to the point that print books are often now cheaper than ebooks.

All the searches on Amazon for Big Five books show an agency - priced ebook with a highly - discounted print book, often cheaper than the ebook, alongside of it.

In general, e-books are only slightly cheaper to produce than print books.

App books are probably a little less expensive than they should be for what readers get in the interactivity; certainly ebooks should be cheaper than the static book since there are no printing and shipping costs.»

From what I've heard from textbook publishers, digital editions are NOT going to be cheaper than print counterparts (unlike with trade books, for example) because the high cost of the textbook is supposedly in the paying of the authors.

Small presses, which use print - on - demand technology rather than cheap offset printing, can not afford to place your book in bookstores (because they have to pay for the high - priced ones that don't sell as well as the ones that do).

I'm not willing to pay higher than the cheapest version of a print book available.

«Ebooks should be more expensive than they are, more than print books — a lot more,» said Luby, adding that ebooks are relatively cheap because publishers and retailers don't properly explain their benefits, namely, convenience.

And the reason being is I'm now with IngramSpark and it was much easier to get the books printed and they were so much cheaper than it would have been with CreateSpace or something.

It is cheaper than traditional printing unless you sell more than 10 000 books.

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.

But if I can buy a print book for cheaper than the ebook?

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??

These new dynamic books should be cheaper than print.