Sentences with phrase «did as a hardcover»

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We might go with a printer to do case - bound hardcovers for new books, but as far as reprinting and the journal is concerned, I think createspace is the way to go.

, but amazon.fr doesn't seem to want me to, it says that the book (hardcover) is «Currently unavailable», no pre-order as an option.

Amazon Author Page: 4 out of 5 of these authors have pages Number of Reviews: each book has at least 186 reviews / 4.5 out of 5 star average Formats Available: 5 of these books are available in e-book, hardcover, paperback, audio download formats, 3 of them are available in mp3 CDs as well Publication date: These books were released between March 4 and September 23, 2014 Website: There doesn't appear to be a website for one of these authors.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that audiobooks and e-books are considered digital services and do not qualify for the same type of VAT as hardcover and paperback novels enjoy.

But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.

They didn't last as well as the hardcovers, but they were cheaper.

Traditional publishers helped indie publishers a lot in this very early period by deciding that they didn't like electronic books and priced them up near hardcover levels, as if an ebook was a specialty item.

Indeed, a very good read, but my thoughts while reading this highly entertaining novel was I hope my son doesn't give me the hardcover edition as a Christmas gift; and wishing I could share the eBook edition with him.

Just a note: I don't buy a hardcover book for «how it looks on the shelf», but instead partially because of durability / hardiness and how it feels in my hands as compared to a paperback.

Why do you think, besides taking your book to the beach as a hardcover?

So why exactly do so many e-book readers think that they are entitled to an e-book edition in their preferred format at the same time as the hardcover for less than half the price?

More and more publishers are recognizing that paperback consumers don't want to be left behind as hardcover and digital fans have access to their favorite titles in a timely manner.

I just bought a hardcover of Stephen Pinker's latest book because it was about the same price as an ebook; I would have bought through Kobo if Kobo offered the right price point (they didn't, but Indigo sure did).

Because of lower e-book prices, the publishers don't do as well as they used to, though they still come out ahead when consumers choose e-books over hardcovers.

We don't know if hardcover sales remained steady (as Nowell reported) because hardcover readers are hardcover readers and have sought out the hardcovers in various markets.

Companies like Amazon with its Kindle are doing the same thing as what publishers are doing with the hardcover version of their book.

Allowing publishers to charge the same price for digital editions as they do for new hardcover books is just wrong.

This leaves us mostly with paperbacks and hardcover books, both of which, according to a Guardian article, are suffering «dramatically» (I don't see a 6 % decline in paperback sales during a recession as dramatic, but that may just be me).

Do you find yourself not sticking with a book as long as you would have had it been a hardcover?

Mr. Turvey said that Google would probably allow publishers to charge consumers the same price for digital editions as they do for new hardcover versions.

As an indication of how Cheryl's open attitude rubbed off on an eBook evangelist who sometimes sees traditional publishers as obstacles to the advance of digital reading, I want to say that it pleased me greatly to receive a signed hardcover copy of Wild from Oprah's social - media - savvy staff in response to some tweeting I diAs an indication of how Cheryl's open attitude rubbed off on an eBook evangelist who sometimes sees traditional publishers as obstacles to the advance of digital reading, I want to say that it pleased me greatly to receive a signed hardcover copy of Wild from Oprah's social - media - savvy staff in response to some tweeting I dias obstacles to the advance of digital reading, I want to say that it pleased me greatly to receive a signed hardcover copy of Wild from Oprah's social - media - savvy staff in response to some tweeting I did.

The cost for this ebook doesn't reflect economic reality in today's market given most consumer's budgets and it doesn't reflect how little ebooks cost to produce as compared to paperbacks - let alone hardcover.

The image of a stack of hardcovers as tall as fifty Empire State Buildings is fun, but also doesn't involve a concrete number.

Kobo Aura HD was designed to fit perfectly in your hand, just as a hardcover does, for a truly immersive reading experience.

Although they received the full wholesale value of each book sold by Amazon, publishers didn't want $ 9.99 to catch on as the new default price for e-books, especially since this was so much lower than hardcovers.

I don't think most readers understand that the extra $ 17 they pay for a hardcover is only $ 2 for the extra cost of the physical object (the paper and cover) and $ 15 as a «you want it first, you pay way more» tax.

Sadly, PW also seems to have stopped providing as much detail on breaking down print book sales (hardcovers, trade paperbacks, etc.), although they did reveal that print book sales «plunged» in June, with trade paperback sales down a whopping 64 %, adult hardcovers down 25 %, and mass - market paperbacks down 22 %.

Over the past 30 days, Amazon sold twice as many Kindle editions of books in the Top 10 on Amazon.com as it did of print books (paperback and hardcover combined).

Amazon usually charged lower prices for a hardcover than the brick - and - mortar store» (as B&N on - line sometimes did).

What the big - 6 seem to be doing as a result is pricing ebooks in a way that attempts to protect hardcover revenues.

Why can not both the publisher and author put the same amount in their pockets for an ebook as they do for a hardcover and simply pass the production savings (all of it) on to the reader?

Do we release ebooks at the same time as the hardcover, but discount the ebook?

Amazon gets to have its wholesale price for first run bestselling hardcovers — even though e-books isn't a wholesale market, that's print mass market paperback — and raise prices for others in the market and control the price for e-books in the market, as they do with the self - published authors.

If the publisher paid the same list royalties on the $ 15 ebook as it did for the $ 30 hardcover, the author would earn $ 1.50 — $ 1.75.

The Divergent series, for example, is in the top Overall 100 as hardcover and paperback, but doesn't show up at all on its respective genre - filtered list, which is odd, to say the least (if it's a bestseller overall, it should automatically be the bestseller in its genre as well).

So, don't panic when you see headlines like «It's the end of books as you knew them» or warnings that you'd best bid goodbye to your local bookstores now that e-books have outsold hardcovers.

If I did get another set, it would probably be the Hufflepuff colors set, or the Ravenclaw set... but I already have the hardcovers with the Mary GrandPré jackets, and I'm buying the Jim Kay illustrated versions as they become available, and that's probably enough shelf space to dedicate to them.

Even if we can, a number of us have quit buying as many hardcovers as we once did.

It was, naturally, the author's fault that the third novel (which earned two starred reviews) came out in July 2009, in the depth of the Great Recession, as a $ 25 hardcover, and didn't sell terribly well except to libraries.

This is not too surprising, since the growth of e-books is most likely to impact sales of mass - market paperbacks, as MMPs are the least expensive print offering, their release is delayed after hardcovers (as some publishers do with e-books), and most closely filled the role that e-books are starting to fill for people: day - to - day fiction reading, as opposed to hardcover cookbooks, graphic books, or bookshelf display items.

The Hitman: Absolution Professional Edition features a premium hardcover Art Book with a foreword from Game Director Tore Blystad, and an exclusive behind - the - scenes «making of» video, all packaged up in a clamshell box that looks as sharp as Agent 47 does in his suit.

This is a pretty good guide as well however, I wish Prima guides would still publish hardcover guides for ALL of the LEGO games so that us OLD folks who need trifocals to read, die numerous times, AND have to reread instructions several times could simply do it by going back a few pages and going one paragraph at a time AND have both regular AND free play modes in front of us, side by side..

(Admittedly, there are very good cooking sites that I favor when I do look online, but even those recipes have not been as rigorously tested as ones in a hardcover book.)