Sentences with phrase «ebook as a physical book»

Toll is currently running a very humble Kickstarter campaign (with only an $ 800 goal) to underwrite the costs of printing his DIY electric bike conversion ebook as a physical book (you know, the kind made from actual paper, not electrons).

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It's possible that restricting the lower VAT to physical books only was done as part of this policy (since ebook sales would never benefit bookstores), but this is pure speculation on my part.

As well as the ebook version, we've also got physical copies of the book available if you want to have a hard copAs well as the ebook version, we've also got physical copies of the book available if you want to have a hard copas the ebook version, we've also got physical copies of the book available if you want to have a hard copy.

As eBooks become pricier libraries offer great digital loaning as well as curation management on their online catalogs for physical bookAs eBooks become pricier libraries offer great digital loaning as well as curation management on their online catalogs for physical bookas well as curation management on their online catalogs for physical bookas curation management on their online catalogs for physical books.

As it stands, libraries budget to purchase physical books for their shelves, and DPLA wants to ensure that there are no higher costs associated with providing the ebook edition of the book.

Last year I read 45 ebooks and 8 paper books, but I actually spent more on those physical books as I did in the Kindle store (a total about # 70 on the paper ones, and # 44.82 on ebooks — all the ebooks I've bought and not read yet [if I ever will, as I continue to buy faster than I read] pretty much equal the total spend though).

Independent OnlineApple, Publishers Must Address All Allegations Before E-book Case Can Be... PCWorld «Because the ebooks market is growing very fast, we are worried about the development of practices that do not exist for physical books, such as...

As the world quickly transitions from physical books to reading on their devices, one has to wonder how they can easily save their place in their new ebooks.

With IngramSpark, you can achieve a physical product (whether print book or ebook) with the same quality standards that the publishing industry expects, meaning your print book has the same binding, trim sizes, paper weights, return status, wholesale discount, and beyond as books created by traditional publishers.

Participants will be asked to engage with issues such as declining physical book sales, the place of ebooks, the cultural importance of bookshops and author events, the specialist knowledge of booksellers, and how bookshops can provide customers with a place to buy books, however they decide to read them.

Mass, club, grocery, and drug retailers, who account for a lot of physical books sold, can now offer buyers the ability to buy ebooks as well.

Red Shelf currently sells titles directly to consumers, as well as works with bookstores to place ebook editions of books in their physical stores through «ecards,» as well as through the bookstores» websites.

Although ebooks seem to be the wave of the future, this interested me as I still prefer to read a physical book rather than an ebook.

Those international sales can provide a huge advantage for authors, as the ebook revolution has not made such inroads in much of the rest of the world and physical copies still make up the majority of book sales there.

Juergen Boos, the director of the five - day annual fair, has also suggested that a general attachment in Europe to the physical presence of the printed book and its value as a cultural object is holding the ebook back.

• Participate on social media and BookBuzzr for ebooks the same as you would for physical books.

Also have a robust Amazon Author Page for ebooks the same as you would if you had physical books.

The biggest houses may shrink some as ebooks grow, but the higher margins involved and the lower overhead costs associated with producing and shipping physical books may actually increase publishers» margins and having money to pay authors in the form of advances will remain a significant advantage for publishers in pursuing the biggest authors.

It will be interesting to see what the other big publishing houses decide to do, I have a feeling your going to see the companies who do nt push for equivalent ebook to physical book pricing will have higher sales and in the end make more money off of ebooks AND «dead tree» books as well thanks to word of mouth from ebook readers.

With IngramSpark, you can achieve a physical product (whether print book or ebook) with the same quality standards that the publishing industry expects and that are utilized by traditional publishers, meaning your print book has the same binding, trim sizes, paper weights, return status, wholesale discount, and beyond as books created by traditional publishers.

Now what would possibly work is selling people the physical book AND including rights to download the ebook as well, contrary to what I am sure the publisher would tell you, Every download wouldnt be a lost sale or lost profit, because how many people are logically going to buy the hard cover and ebook as well?

I have purchased particular RIGHTS to that physical book, and it is those rights that I purchase — or rent, as the case may be interpreted — with an eBook.

In an age of ebook controversy, it's nice to have a reminder that the book as a physical object is a thing to be treasured.

Nick Moran of The Millions had interesting prospective, mentioning «The emissions and e-waste for e-Readers could be stretched even further if I went down the resource rabbit hole to factor in: electricity needed at the Amazon and Apple data centers; communication infrastructure needed to transmit digital files across vast distances; the incessant need to recharge or replace the batteries of eReaders; the resources needed to recycle a digital device (compared to how easy it is to pulp or recycle a book); the packaging and physical mailing of digital devices; the need to replace a device when it breaks (instead of replacing a book when it's lost); the fact that every reader of eBooks requires his or her own eReading device (whereas print books can be loaned out as needed from a library); the fact that most digital devices are manufactured abroad and therefore transported across oceans.

Sometimes audiobooks aren't produced at the same time as the new release eBook or physical book which may be why you see a lag in when they're released but if you search at overdrive.com you can peruse the millions of titles we have available.»

Ebooks, on the other hand, well, they're pretty much the same thing as physical books, except they need an expensive device to read them on, while books have their own built - in screen that is both disposable and of a superior resolution (no back - lighting though).

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.

As ebook sales continue to trounce those of print books, and now with the demise of Borders, surely it's only a matter of days until someone — probably a guest poster on this very blog — declares the death of the physical book.

As readers increasingly turn to eBooks, libraries have a responsibility to provide them with the same open, easy and free access to content they have with physical books.

That genial term «constraint» probably refers to the «friction» that some publishers prefer you encounter so that ebooks, a form of book they can neither see nor touch, can be controlled in their movements, much as physical book can be controlled.

We can purchase the physical book for $ 24 after discount, and if I wanted to purchase the ebook as an... individual, I could buy it for $ 21.99.

Book superstores like Barnes & Noble, independent booksellers, mass merchandisers like Target, discounters like Costco, and online retailers such as Overstock, we project there'll be greatly fewer companies retailing eBooks, eTextbooks and digital newsstand products than the fragmented physical book marBook superstores like Barnes & Noble, independent booksellers, mass merchandisers like Target, discounters like Costco, and online retailers such as Overstock, we project there'll be greatly fewer companies retailing eBooks, eTextbooks and digital newsstand products than the fragmented physical book marbook market.

«As part of the unlawful agreements, and seeking to leverage its dominant position via the Apple iOS platform, Apple and the publishers agreed that prices for ebooks that were offered through the iBookstore would be calculated by a formula tied to physical books,» the lawsuit said.

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...]

Just as each traditional / physical book publisher has different requirements for submission, so do eBooks.

For me, my opinion started to change when I thought of ebooks as an alternative, rather than a replacement, to physical books.

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

Sounds like the eBook version of this strategy is a much better option and can still get a lot of exposure which could drive physical book sales as well.

Waterstones has announced a surprise tie - up with Amazon that will enable shoppers to pluck ebooks as well as physical books from its shelves.

Creating end notes in an ebook is not quite the same as a physical book.

1) Give away ebooks: As a self - published author, I can't afford to send physical books everywhere.

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 book.

It's best to get your catalog added now so that you can join the early wave of authors as libraries excitedly try to incorporate ebooks into their physical catalog of books.

When ebooks hit 15 % of the market Authors start making almost as much from ebooks as they do from physical books.

I started on eBooks about 10 years ago, and I only buy a physical book if I want to give it as a gift.

EBooks have become the preferable choice for books, as it makes the user free from the burden of carrying a heavy volume of physical books and enables access of the books in the daily / regular use items like a computer, iPhone, iPad, Smartphone or so, and are also accessible at any time.

If it seems odd with ebooks, it's only because we're still seeing them as a facsimile of physical books.

Consider the emotive connection to a physical purchase versus an ebook download, it is likely that the percentage of «ebooks sold to read» conversion will be higher, and as a book that has been read is way more likely to get recommended than a book that hasn't... you get the picture....

I am just at that stage — published by a tiny New Zealand publisher, about to release my fantasy novel as an ebook and dreaming about being «discovered» so that my physical book will be available worldwide and everyone will know about it!

The shift from Physical Books to eBooks will be hastened as lots of authors and Publishers will rush to digitize their backlists and make 70 % on them.