Sentences with phrase «costs as a physical book»

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I really can't understand how anyone can imagine it costs as much to produce an e-book as it does to print a physical book.

As it stands, libraries budget to purchase physical books for their shelves, and DPLA wants to ensure that there are no higher costs associated with providing the ebook edition of the book.

Physical books will continue to be produced, because they probably at least cover their costs and serve as test beds where new concepts and characters can be created that might yield real revenue down the road.

As you'll recall, my two main goals were getting physical copies of my book directly into the hands of readers and keeping my costs down.

The biggest houses may shrink some as ebooks grow, but the higher margins involved and the lower overhead costs associated with producing and shipping physical books may actually increase publishers» margins and having money to pay authors in the form of advances will remain a significant advantage for publishers in pursuing the biggest authors.

The actual physical costs of a print book — paper, printing, binding, packaging, warehousing, etc. — are less than 10 % of the cover price, even in small volumes, and drop to less than a dollar per book for large volume titles such as bestsellers.

The prices for some of the e-books cost the same as going into a book store and buying a physical copy.

A useful debate guide with a balanced view of the topic, this book in the Video Games and Society series discusses the conflicting research regarding physical and social costs and benefits associated with gaming, as well as how gaming can become an addiction.

While many authors give away digital versions of free books to reduce the cost, the amazing authors and books featured on this page are giving away good, old - fashioned physical books for completely free, and in most cases paying for shipping as well!

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And those same publishers still curse the name Jim Baen for daring to spoil the foolish readers and letting them think 1) that e-books are good and 2) that e-books don't have to be laden with DRM nor do they have to cost as much as physical books.

She said: «Why would people pay the same for a virtual book, with none of the graphic design, physical presence, production and distribution costs accepted as part of the printed kind?

Even if gross margins are similar to physical sales, digital sales would not incur as high a fulfillment cost, which was 8.3 % of overall revenue in F» 08; we estimate fulfillment cost on Kindle books is in the 2 - 3 % range.

«All ebooks will cost less than the physical books», Kessel told us as he detailed the launch of the new Amazon Kindle store in the UK, before adding: «Customers believe that electronic books should be cheaper than physical books and we agree».

(Amazon obviously disagrees, and as a consumer I'd prefer to see that reduced cost reflected in a lower sales price compared to physical books, since I'm getting a generally less useful product.)

Incidentally, nothing I just wrote should be read as dismissing the possibility of Amazon becoming a monopsonist in the physical goods market (whether those goods are books, clothing, or anything else Amazon sells), where the cost barriers to entry are much higher.

This was particularly important for many consumers as the cost eBooks has remained comparable with physical books despite the elimination of manufacture and distribution cost.

That being said, it's also true that e-books don't cost as much to produce or distribute, so they shouldn't cost as much as physical books.

Toll is currently running a very humble Kickstarter campaign (with only an $ 800 goal) to underwrite the costs of printing his DIY electric bike conversion ebook as a physical book (you know, the kind made from actual paper, not electrons).