Sentences with phrase «e-book as a hardcover»

For all of 2010, it sold three times as many Kindle e-books as hardcovers.

On the one hand, charging the same price (or more) for an e-book as a hardcover seems ludicrous, but at the same time, the publishing industry has long struggled to survive, as there is little if any money in books these days.

In pursuit of justification to charge a higher price for e-books than, say, $ 9.99 — perhaps even as much for an e-book as a hardcover — there has been much discussion of possibility of producing «enhanced» e-books.

Not exact matches

«Read this book as a hardcover, e-book, or stone tablet, but read it.»

-- Mike Shatzkin, publishing consulting In some cases e-books cost about the same as the hardcover.

Given the growing affordability of e-readers as well as current book - buying trends — e-book sales surpassed hardcover sales in the U.S. for the first time in June, according to the Association of American Publishers — a bookless library makes a good deal of sense in the year 2013.

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 book is being released by Cemetery Dance, a small publisher, and is currently only available through their website as an e-book — though you can also pre-order the hardcover for a mid-April delivery.

We have even heard reports that in the Netherlands some e-books cost double the amount as a hardcover.

When a new title is released in hardcover it is immediately available as an e-book.

Hardcover / paperback / 2nd hand bookstore, meanwhile the e-book costs the same now, as the day it came out, whether that was yesterday or ten years ago.

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.

Bookstores all over the world are seeing a resurgence of hardcover and paperback sales, as the novelty of e-books have clearly waned.

Brainy hardcovers are as welcome as self - published e-books.

Your book will be produced as a softcover, hardcover and e-book.

NBM plans to publish the title in full color and as a hardcover and e-book.

It turns out that e-books are not cannibalizing hardcover and trade paperback sales, as publishers» once feared, though mass market paperbacks — which are often published much later than their hardback counterparts, and sold mostly in more traditional retail environments like drugstores — have been negatively impacted.

Your book may be produced as a softcover, hardcover and e-book.

New best - selling titles often cost less as e-books than as hardcovers.

On Mike Shatzkin's blog, he speculated that the publishers» decision to delay the e-book versions of some major upcoming titles isn't «a battle to rescue hardcover books from price perception issues caused by inexpensive ebooks» so much as it is about «wresting control of their ebook destinies back from Amazon.»

If your package includes multiple book formats, such as a softcover, hardcover and e-book, each format receives a unique ISBN.

E-books would also be released around the same day as their hardcover print counterparts, instead of waiting days, weeks, months after the hardcover releases before releasing the e-book version.

As the founder and publisher at Polished Publishing Group (PPG), Kim Staflund works with businesses and individuals around the world to produce truly professional - quality audiobooks, e-books, paperbacks, and hardcovers using the supported self - publishing business model.

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?

At that time, publishers made a killing on frontlist e-book sales as compared to frontlist hardcover sales — at the author's expense — because, as compared to today, the price of e-books was relatively high.

A recent notable exception was Walter Issacsson» Steve Jobs biography which was offered as an e-book at the same time, albeit at the same price, as the hardcover edition (in Japan the biography was published in two parts with a combined price of $ 50 compared to a street price of about $ 17 in the US).

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.

This October, ABA member bookstores will be able to offer customers who purchase a hardcover copy of the new Hillary Jordan title, When She Woke, a free e-book version as well, thanks to a special promotion from Algonquin Books.

If the e-books are as costly as the hardcover, it would be a deterrent toward purchasing any e-reader device.

This program is for books that are available directly from Amazon both in hard copy (paperback or hardcover, for example) and as a Kindle e-book.

[50] In the overall US market, paperback book sales are still much larger than either hardcover or e-book; the American Publishing Association estimated e-books represented 8.5 % of sales as of mid-2010, up from 3 % a year before.

Under the retail model, publishers set a «list price» for e-books (usually the same $ 25 or so they set for the hardcover), and retailers like Amazon pay them a fixed percentage of that price, such as 50 %.

UPDATE: As another example, Nan Graham, the SVP and EIC at Scribner (Steven's King's publisher) created a nicely - crafted hardcover, and explained that «We hoped that a handsome object would slow the migration to e-book for King.»

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.

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.

To put pressure on Amazon, the publishers said that they would delay putting out e-books until sometime after the hardcover editions were released — a procedure known as «windowing.»

The number of Kindle books (e-books) sold by Amazon.com has outpaced the number of hardcover books 143 to 100 over the past three months, the company said, and it has sold three times as many Kindle books in the first half of this year as compared to the first half of last year.

Are there authors whose readers really, really want the bound copy, even if (as for hardcovers), it's more expensive than the e-book?

I'd be prepared to wager that consumers are more than happy to choose an e-book over a more expensive hardcover, but I question whether that preference holds up when the price point is the same for either format, as with agency - priced * paperbacks.

Only half the e-books we've bought have been available as hardcover books.

There were still a substantial number of hardcover - priced paperback e-books on Fictionwise even as late as the imposition of agency pricing in 2010.

As has already been explained, most of Hachette's books aren't hardcovers, only a percentage of Hachette's books are going to be bestsellers, and like everybody else, Hachette drops the price of the e-books over time.

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.

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.)

However, it neglects to mention that e-book prices already generally range from one - third to one - half the cost of a printed book in most cases, and can often be as little as one - fourth the list price of a new hardcover.

Luckily for them both, the $ 8 - 10 Paperback is actually competitively priced vis - a-vis e-books with the value add of being a tangible, physical good, and with a little effort I suspect that the $ 12 - 20 TPB could easily supplant the Hardcover as the «lead» version of paper books.

People have said that mass - market paperback sales are the most susceptible to being replaced by e-book sales, since they are generally fiction novels that people read once and then discard or donate — as opposed to hardcovers that people like to display on their bookshelves.

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.

People blame the publishers when they see hardcovers cost the same as or less than e-books, but that's an image Amazon is able to manipulate behind the scenes because it's willing to sell hardcovers below cost.

Fearing that e-book sales would cut into their print sales (and that everyone would opt to buy cheap e-books over more expensive hardcovers), publishers sought a way to sell release new titles as hardcovers and e-books simultaneously, while still maintaining some control on pricing.