Sentences with phrase «discounted hardcover»

There was not a lot of turnover a the top of the list this month as Abnormal Returns readers take advantage of some special deals on Kindle versions of some popular books and deeply discounted hardcover copies of the Abnormal Returns book.

I've purchased over a hundred books since they changed the pricing and almost all of them were more expensive for the the ebook than the discounted hardcover or paperback.

(65 % of $ 11.64) If Amazon sells any of the $ 14.99 ebooks, it makes $ 9.75 — over three times what it's making on these discounted hardcover new releases.

This means I missed out on deep discounted hardcovers, but that's okay.

I'm not sure why Amazon discounting the hardcover to below the ebook price is counter to what the publisher wants.

The publisher wants to drive readers to the hardcover, and Amazon is discounting the hardcover so readers don't buy the high - priced ebook.

Mass - market paperback sales have been sliding since giant bookstore chains and later Amazon.com started heavily discounting hardcovers in the 1980s and 1990s.

«Books cost too much» was a popular TV ad slogan used by the Haft family in the 1980s to promote the Crown Books discount hardcover and paperback bookstore chain.

Then Amazon started discounting the hardcover edition to around 13.00 and sometimes even below cost.

Not exact matches

You will receive one hardcover copy of «Foundr Version 1.0» + one digital version of «Foundr Version 1.0» (EPUB or PDF) at a DISCOUNTED PRICE!

Nicette Jukelevics Foreword by Charles Mahan, M.D. 304 pages, graphs, photos Praeger Publishers Media Type: Hardcover Book available at a discount from ICEA.org (with membership or registration) and from Amazon.com Buy your copy from Amazon using GoodSearch and the vendor will donate to the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS).

Discount: Receive 20 percent off the original price for items that can be used in the classroom, including most hardcover and paperback books, toys, and games.

Book publishers have traditionally sold hardcover books to retailers for about half their cover price and let the retailers discount as they wished.

Though we know retailers will probably be discounting this one, how much for a hardcover is too much?

I know most of the time here in Canada after the first week that a new hardcover has come out, they are often discounted by 20 to 30 %.

For example, when a hardcover first comes out, it is X, when a bookstore still has many copies they discount it 40 %.

Simply enter your book's specifications, including the trim size, interior color and paper types, whether the binding will be paperback or hardcover, laminate style, the number of pages, list price, and wholesale discount, and your market area (U.S., U.K., European Union, Australia, or Global).

The discounts are, of course, far higher than the usual 40 % -50 % range offered by Amazon, warehouse clubs and other discounters — including Overstock — and are more typical for remainders than frontlist hardcovers.

Especially ones released in hardcover all over the place, the ones bookstores are going to be discounting like crazy on the assumption that everybody on the planet will be buying them.

Although I did not see any advertisements at my local location, the full details online adds that most non-Members now get 10 % off books, although discounted books are excluded along with hardcover bestsellers and eBooks.

In some cases discounts on hardcover editions are 40 % off, giving customers the ability to buy them cheaper than Amazon.

The book is published by Random imprint Doubleday, which means that Amazon controls price and discounting in the Kindle Store just as brick - and - mortar booksellers control price and discounting for the hardcover edition.

Some of the differences between IngramSpark and CreateSpace come down to hardcovers, discounts, returnability, and book distribution.

They might be drawn to the idea of being able to have a hardcover to read in the bathtub or pass onto their children along with having a discounted, lightweight e-book for BART.

To give a clear indication to its customers that Amazon is still in the game, it is providing select hardcovers at a discount price despite the fact that it is not able to sell the digital editions of Penguin books.

«Unpaid royalties of approximately $ 7,300 because the publisher sold nearly 6,500 copies of a $ 17.99 hardcover edition at «high discount,» even though Agent Kristin had ensured that the author's contract limited the number of copies the publisher was allowed to sell at high discount.»

On Monday, the site reported, «Amazon.com quietly began discounting many bestselling hardcover titles between 50 % and 65 %, levels we've never seen in the history of Amazon or in the bricks - and - mortar price wars of the past.»

For decades, the mass - market paperback has stubbornly held on, despite the predictions of its death since the 1980s, when retail chains that edged out independent bookstores successfully introduced discounts on hardcover versions of the same books.

* No more than a few weeks after a hardcover hits print, used copies show up on Amazon for less than the discounted Amazon price.

And the hardcover at the time was on discount from Amazon.

Amazon is already accepting pre-orders for the hardcover ($ 21) and Kindle ($ 19.99) versions; both prices are discounted off the $ 35 list price.

Are we so entitled now that we have to have instant gratification and new hardcover books in our mailbox on the day of publication AND at a huge discounted price?

Typically, prices for new titles range from around $ 26, or the same as a hardcover, to the discounted $ 9.99 that Amazon charges for most of its Kindle titles.

After all, before the switch, Random House was the only large publisher still using the retail model (the same model used for printed books), where Random House received 50 % of the «list price,» which was often the same as the hardcover price, and Amazon could discount the e-book as much as they wanted without cutting into the royalty.

(Right now they're offering a 40 % discount on Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles — a hardcover book giving you all the backstory on your that little Yoda «minifig» from Lego — and with 20 minutes and 43 seconds left to go, they've already sold off 47 % of them.)

Why, when you can get a hardcover for a 30 % discount at Barnes & Noble, or a 40 % discount from Amazon, do many people buy it at a local indie bookstore for retail price or only a 10 % discount?

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

I think you will find many, many cases where the publishers are discounting the ebook editions more than this, particularly on hardcovers.

A lot of people like discounts, sure, particularly on bestsellers — which is why the fact that an e-book is less than a hardcover does well.

The Big Five get a huge portion of their revenue from hardcover and paperback sales, so it's like saying, «If you discount the 80 % of the revenue that authors get from hardcover sales, indie ebooks easily outpace traditionally published ebooks.»

By Hannah Johnson The best of the blogosphere and social media... Twittered and blogged about from every corner of the internet yesterday, the Kindle version of The Lost Symbol is outselling the hardcover version on Amazon.com despite the retailer's hardcover discount of nearly 50 %.

Publication date: September 28, 2015 Hardcover ISBN 978 -1-940419-07-7 178 pages $ 23.99 Trade paperback ISBN 978 -1-940419-08-4 $ 13.99 Ebook ISBN 978 -1-940419-09-1 $ 5.99 Available through Ingram For bulk orders or special discounts, contact the publisher: [email protected]

Add to that the fact that hardcovers now cost $ 20 or more (unless you order from Amazon or have a discount at Barnes & Noble, etc) and buying two e-books at $ 9.99 or more for less makes financial sense.

Customers have long asked for an opportunity to acquire their eBooks at a discount when they already own the physical copy and if Waterstones was to start selling bundles priced roughly equal to the cost of a hardcover book it would give them a major edge in marketing alone.

Or... the shift could be due, at least in part, to the gradual reduction in average Amazon.com print book discounts on traditionally - published Hardcovers and Paperbacks — a factor which could be driving format - agnostic fans of those authors back toward ebook editions.

(You also have to factor whether a discounted frontlist ebook is going to further cannibalize any hardcover sales, which still yield bigger credits to the author.)

Pricing an ebook at a discount to the hardcover release means pricing the digital like a tpb (and more than the mass media paperback).

I should note that hardcover copies of the Abnormal Returns book are on deep discount over at Amazon, so if you don't have a copy yet now is your chance.