Sentences with phrase «e-books as physical books»

Barnes & Noble now represents more than 25 percent of all of the U.S. market for e-books, more than the company's share of physical books, and it sells twice the number of e-books as physical books, at least online.

Not exact matches

Comparable sales in Barnes & Noble's retail business, which exclude its struggling Nook digital business, rose 1.3 % in its third fiscal quarter, the company reported on Thursday, as physical books continued to hold their own against e-books at the company and industrybooks at the company and industrywide.

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The move is a break with the traditional marketing strategy of e-book production imitating physical books, or vice versa, with the launch of a series exclusively available as e-booksbooks.

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 bbook as it does to print a physical book.

Unfortunately, as of yet Amazon offers no special deals for buying a physical book and an e-book togetbook together.

It won't identify physical or digital products, such as books and e-books, and it will play no role in the trading of products, whether physical or digbooks, and it will play no role in the trading of products, whether physical or digital.

She said now «there are fewer readers» entering in the digital category and said the slowing growth in e-book sales have pushed publishers back to «highlighting books as beautiful physical objects.»

Consultant Mike Shatzkin, who I've known for years and whose insights I respect is quoted as saying: «People who read e-books don't buy physical books, and people who buy physical books don't buy e-books.&rbooks don't buy physical books, and people who buy physical books don't buy e-books.&rbooks.»

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If my books were in physical libraries, either as print or e-book downloads, any number of people would have access to them.

Following the September 22 New York Times article «The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead,» other media outlets at the national and local levels, as well as internationally, have been sharing the news that print books remain a favorite for readers and that physical bookstores are benefitting.

Because at the end of the day, they haven't really ever given a shit about everyone else in the book trade... My worry would be that by selling Kindle devices, we would be converting customers to using Amazon for their physical book sales as well as e-books.

Even putting the loss of physical sales aside, the customers and community members we've talked to who have bought e-book readers or who buy e-books have been largely guided in what to read by their online sources; they've restricted or pared down their reading lists to accommodate what they can get online; and they've stopped giving books (in physical or electronic form) as gifts to their friends and their chilbooks have been largely guided in what to read by their online sources; they've restricted or pared down their reading lists to accommodate what they can get online; and they've stopped giving books (in physical or electronic form) as gifts to their friends and their children.

In fact, some suggest that e-book covers are just as important than those on physical books, because online buyers are presented with a myriad of thumbnail images when browsing on the most popular sites.

The court found that e-books are not subject to the same tax reductions as physical books, as they are considered a serbooks are not subject to the same tax reductions as physical books, as they are considered a service.

Even as its e-book marketshare slips, its physical book sales will grow, and Spencer projects Amazon will eventually control 33 % of all book sabook marketshare slips, its physical book sales will grow, and Spencer projects Amazon will eventually control 33 % of all book sales.

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

2) The ability to lend an e-book to anyone, anytime, without restriction, as I can do with a physical bbook to anyone, anytime, without restriction, as I can do with a physical book.

We just try to make every aspect of the physical book as good as it can possibly be, because that's our greatest hedge against the dominance of e-books.

Reading via an e-book reader does not give the same experience as thumbing through a physical bbook reader does not give the same experience as thumbing through a physical book.

The average new title certainly does not have the same type of waiting list as a physical book or e-bookbook.

From authors who want to have their work available once the physical edition has gone out of print and the rights have reverted, to those whose books we believe in and feel passionately about but couldn't sell — oftentimes, after approaching 20 or more houses — we realized that part of our job as agents in this new publishing milieu is to facilitate these works being made available as e-books and through POD and other editions,» from the DGLM books and through POD and other editions,» from the DGLM blog.

As the race between physical books and their digital counterpart e-books continues, the latter seems to be extending the lead with each passingbooks continues, the latter seems to be extending the lead with each passing day.

Further, e-Books are cheap compared to the physical books (not always, of course) as most of the eBooks are priced Books are cheap compared to the physical books (not always, of course) as most of the eBooks are priced less.

Just as important: Mahaney thinks Amazon could get relatively similar profits for each e-book sold that it currently gets for physical books.

Bookworms can now raise both their physical books and e-books and cheer as Amazon's Matchbook service is now availbooks and cheer as Amazon's Matchbook service is now available.

Maybe a couple of novellas, which don't have a great market in physical books, and I could do it myself as e-booksbooks.

Treating your content — both physical books and e-books — as bookware, rather than as something visionary or revered, solves a number of probbooks — as bookware, rather than as something visionary or revered, solves a number of problems.

As far as readers are concerned, the incremental cost to produce more copies of an e-book is zero.So the readers expect an eBook to be priced less than a physical booAs far as readers are concerned, the incremental cost to produce more copies of an e-book is zero.So the readers expect an eBook to be priced less than a physical booas readers are concerned, the incremental cost to produce more copies of an e-book is zero.So the readers expect an eBook to be priced less than a physical bbook is zero.So the readers expect an eBook to be priced less than a physical book.

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 bbooks 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 bbooks don't have to be laden with DRM nor do they have to cost as much as physical books.

Most of all, they hate that Jim and Toni and the rest of Baen believes e-books are just as much books as a physical copbooks are just as much books as a physical copy is.

Since consumers almost always have the option to read books in physical formats, they are indicating a preference to return to print... Overall, 14 % of book buyers said they are now reading fewer e-books than when they started reading books in the format, and 59 % percent of those who said they are reading fewer e-books cited a preference for print as the main reason for switching back to physical bbooks than when they started reading books in the format, and 59 % percent of those who said they are reading fewer e-books cited a preference for print as the main reason for switching back to physical bbooks cited a preference for print as the main reason for switching back to physical books.

Publishers are only looking at it as another way to prevent their criminal customers from actually being able to do with their e-books what they can with their physical bbooks what they can with their physical books.

I also go back to one of my points is that if retailers / wholesalers don't have any specific territorial restriction data for e-books then they should apply the ones they have for the physical book until the publishers update / provide the relevant e-book data — which 9 times out of 10 will be the same as for the physical bbook data — which 9 times out of 10 will be the same as for the physical book.

So they seem intent on stalling e-book adoption as long as possible (as evidenced by them trying to raise prices in the face of clear consumer outcry, attaching invasive DRM to their titles, disabling TTS access, delaying e-book releases, and generally releasing poorly - formatted scans of physical books).

It is an extensive work, initially published as a physical book, available in e-book form, and with plans to develop into other forms of mebook form, and with plans to develop into other forms of media.

On a digital store front such as Amazon, people can see the price of a physical book and an e-book side by sbook side by side.

Then again, the oft - repeated argument against DRM and anti-piracy measures applies here as well as it does to purchased e-books: piracy is going to happen no matter what kind of DRM publishers use, and the same risk of piracy exists with physical bbooks: piracy is going to happen no matter what kind of DRM publishers use, and the same risk of piracy exists with physical books.

Purchasers of e-books are still asking why they have to pay as much for an e-book as they do for a physical book and they often choose not to buy that e-bbook as they do for a physical book and they often choose not to buy that e-bookbook.

As with other e-book only imprints, such as Little, Brown's Blackfriars, Hopkin said books would be given a physical edition where sales reach «a certain level of success»As with other e-book only imprints, such as Little, Brown's Blackfriars, Hopkin said books would be given a physical edition where sales reach «a certain level of success»as Little, Brown's Blackfriars, Hopkin said books would be given a physical edition where sales reach «a certain level of success».

In part, this is due to the fact that lower e-book pricing was previously demonstrated to have a deleterious effect on hardback and other printed book sales, as well as harming physical bookstobook pricing was previously demonstrated to have a deleterious effect on hardback and other printed book sales, as well as harming physical bookstores.

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 bbooks 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.

E-books offer us the same entertainment and education as physical bbooks offer us the same entertainment and education as physical books.

Baron said young people are resistant to e-books because they say they are distracted and they had to deal with headaches and physical discomfort such as eyestrain when reading e-book versions of college bbooks because they say they are distracted and they had to deal with headaches and physical discomfort such as eyestrain when reading e-book versions of college books.

E-books, while being tabbed as the replacement for the so called obsolete physical book, are overhyped.

This turned out to be great exposure and it became a huge hit as an audiobook, e-book and physical bbook and physical book.

The other problem with your argument is that you seem to be treating printed books — a form of physical property in which a single copy of intellectual property has been placed — as the same as an e-book, which is a license to view intellectual property owned by another individual or company.

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 bbooks don't cost as much to produce or distribute, so they shouldn't cost as much as physical books.

A paperback does give some kudos to you as an author (there is something magical about holding a book you've written), and some readers prefer a physical book, but the income from a paperback is significantly lower than from an e-bookbook.