According to a recent survey 80 % of the readers prefer
eBooks over the print books.
I've never understood why price point would be determining factor in
ebook over print book though.
Not exact matches
I spent
over $ 600 for
eBooks and
printed books trying to discover the secrets to successful online publishing.
Lonely Planet has gone on to become the world's most successful travel publisher,
printing over 120 million
books in eleven different languages, along with guidebooks and
eBooks to almost every destination on the planet.
Our catalog includes
over 18,000 publishers with
print books,
eBooks, online educational databases, audiobooks, video resources, makerspace materials, and more.
Students seem to crave the look and feel of a
print edition, choosing to opt for the heft of a «real»
book over digital, even when the
ebook edition comes with bonus content.
Also, in another interesting revelation, 62 percent of those who took part in the survey said they preferred
printed books over ebooks.
Interestingly, Flipkart holds a sway
over 40 to 45 percent of the
printed books market, something that could come under strain once
ebook sales pick up.
Almost a quarter of those polled said they read
printed books now but wish to switch
over to
ebooks in future.
More interactivity will allow
eBooks to gain even further market share
over print books.
With the skills learned freelancing and lots of playing with Photoshop
over the last 10 years, I want to design beautiful covers for indie authors for their
ebooks and
print books.
With a national sales and support team representing
over 100 years of combined experience, Sebco provides library bound
print books and
ebooks to public libraries and school libraries throughout the country.
Books In Print contains over 20 million global titles (in print, out of print, and forthcoming), including books, ebooks, audio books, and multim
Books In
Print contains over 20 million global titles (in print, out of print, and forthcoming), including books, ebooks, audio books, and multim
Print contains
over 20 million global titles (in
print, out of print, and forthcoming), including books, ebooks, audio books, and multim
print, out of
print, and forthcoming), including books, ebooks, audio books, and multim
print, and forthcoming), including
books, ebooks, audio books, and multim
books,
ebooks, audio
books, and multim
books, and multimedia.
We recommend that you publish an
ebook in addition to
print version (s), so as not to limit your readership, and you'll save money if you have the same
book cover designed for both formats at once rather than starting
over if you decide to add an
ebook version later.
If the
print publisher has the copyright
over the
print publication, partly because you let it do so as part of the deal that they «put it together» for you, and has also registered the
print ISBN in their name, this does not stop you making an
eBook (so long as it does not use the creative design work of the
print book) and registering the second and future ISBNs in your own name as author — as you should have done anyway.
We currently have
over 100
books in
print and also available as
ebooks.
There is a lot of heated argument about whether
ebooks will replace
printed books, the heat generated almost exclusively by people with their own monetary interests in pushing one
over the other.
There is a reason a sizable proportion of early adopters were
over 50; part of it was being able to afford the initial high price of ereaders but the other part was the ability to make every
ebook into a large
print book..
By insisting on blindly continuing to spend copious amounts of money on
print runs, only to have them end up as pulp after they have been remaindered by the dwindling number of
book shops through low sales,
over the far cheaper and fastest growing area within literature today — the
eBook, does you no favours whatsoever.
An extensive online poll was conducted with
over 75,000 library
ebook readers and it found that these patrons purchase an average of 3.2
books (both
print and
ebooks) each month.
Ebooks are great for everybody except authors because there is no control
over the real sales figures And this situation goes on forever since there is no out of
print for a digital
book.
They're not all green energy, due to the minerals that go into the electronics that most people prefer to read their
eBooks on, but because they are meant to be used many times
over, their impact is drastically less than that of
print books.
I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated
eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small
print runs, jacking the price of a hardcover textbook up to
over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used»
book market obsolete.
A new report states that the 16 - 24 generation is still firmly in favor of
print books, with 73 % saying they prefer
print over eBooks.
Of course, much of the data is talking about
ebooks over print sales, but as Walsh's assessment from AuthorEarnings shows,
print book revenue for the actual author is nothing compared to their digital income.
He traditionally published a few
books several years ago, and he's self - published a few
ebooks since then, but this is his first self - published
print book to be sold direct to his fans (he has
over a million readers on his blog).
My complaint is with the way Amazon handled
print books in this matter, not with the Amazon - Macmillan
ebook pricing dispute,
over which I still haven't developed an informed opinion because it is so fricking complicated.
The basic idea was that one of the biggest changes that an
ebook can have
over a
print book is that it can dynamically integrate its context
over the network.
One of the chief obstacles for
ebooks in the classroom is the hard data that demonstrates students not only prefer
print books over ebooks when they have the power to self - select the texts, but also that demonstrate a possible drop in reading comprehension scores after consuming content in digital formats.
As the parent company
over two distinctly different methods of independent publishing — CreateSpace for
print - on - demand physical
books and Kindle Direct Publishing for
ebooks — the opportunities for
book development are more available than ever.
Readers who are 55 + tend to favour
print books over ebooks and do much less listening of audiobooks.
They publish
eBooks, but they an option to
print on demand any
book over 50,000 words in length.
The study also seems to confirm a general decline in the use of
ebooks by library patrons: «
Over the past 12 months, 96 % of survey respondents read at least one
print book, while 44 % read at least one
ebook.»
-LSB-...] As anyone who follows digital publishing industry can tell you, publishers have been raising their
ebook prices
over the past several years to the point that
print books are often now cheaper than
ebooks.
I also wonder, once KDP
Print takes over CreateSpace, will Kindle reward those who only publish their print books through them just as they do with eB
Print takes
over CreateSpace, will Kindle reward those who only publish their
print books through them just as they do with eB
print books through them just as they do with
eBooks.
Obviously there can be a lot more contributing to the drop in sales — a weaker economy means less consumers taking farther - reaching vacations, for example — but if the trend that came about with the enhanced
ebooks is solid, could this mean that people who buy
books about business or technology embrace e-reading while readers who purchase travel guides or cookbooks are less apt to choose digital
over print?
According to Bowker
Books in
Print and Bowker Identifier Services, over 235,000 print and ebooks have been self - published as of
Print and Bowker Identifier Services,
over 235,000
print and ebooks have been self - published as of
print and
ebooks have been self - published as of 2011.
As the parent company
over two distinctly different methods of independent publishing — CreateSpace for
print - on - demand physical
books and Kindle Direct Publishing for
ebooks — the opportunities for... [Read more...]
In the case of Scholastic «s publication of Suzanne Collins» wildly successful Hunger Games trilogy,
print books should have accounted for a higher percentage of sales, given the prevalence of
print over digital in that demographic; at the same time,
ebook sales of E.L. James» 50 Shades of Grey trilogy and the anonymity of digital purchases — coupled with the self - publishing numbers from the first go - round — made
ebooks seem to be the clear frontrunner.
I've sold
over 500,000
books in 74 countries in
print,
ebook and audiobook formats.
«
eBooks are coexisting with
print books, as opposed to taking
over... digital sales of fiction and non fiction appear to be slowing as readers increasingly want to consume
books in a variety of ways.»
Ebooks are OK, but should never take
over the industry from
printed books.
I've been a professional graphic designer for
over thirty years, so I designed my
book's cover for both the
ebook and the
print book along with the interior pages.
The argument is that ever since digital
books became mainstream, buyers are having to choose between a
print copy or a digital copy, between a physical copy to coo
over on a shelf or a convenient
ebook on an ereader.
They sell
over a third of all
books sold and nearly 70 % of those sold online (both in
print and
ebooks).
Another interesting finding is that
eBook readers tend to read
over 30 % more
books than those who read only
printed books.
There is evidence that
ebooks are beginning to plateau but they are still making gains in market share
over print books.
Over time, I suspect we will see a majority of
book content sold in
eBook formats, but I do not see
print books ever going away.
I still prefer the usability and feel of a
print book over an
ebook.
Librarians (and patrons) often make it difficult to work through issues associated with
ebooks by doggedly assuming that
ebooks will work the same way as
printed books in terms of their economic impact, and by insisting therefore that the things they've done with
print should carry
over largely unchanged to
ebooks.