Sentences with phrase «ebook than the paper»

Additionally, a study from the National Literacy Trust on the effects of ebooks on reading progress suggested that boys were keener to read ebooks than their paper counterparts, with ebooks facilitating a 25 per cent rise in the number of pupils who read daily and a 22 per cent increase in those who read for an hour or longer.

Well as for how big the market is — I don't have any hard and fast numbers for you but Amazon sold more ebooks than paper books this year, and Smashwords (an ebook distributor) publishes over 70,000 ebooks and counting.

I'm buying more ebooks than paper now, simply due to space issues.

Not exact matches

I could see where if you have a radically different product (print books) than the pirated ebook, familiarity with the author's work which was a function of reading a pirated copy could boost paper sales.

They're trying to avoid the crap with ebooks being the same cost (or more) than paper like so many trad publishers are doing.

In practical terms, this means that many traditionally published eBooks are more expensive than their paper counterparts.

At my library we are just getting started with ebooks — we get more paper books than ebooks, but our other resources (periodicals) are probably mostly online these days.

It gives you far higher per - book earnings than traditionally published authors are receiving (even those whose ebooks are selling for $ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal when compared to most traditionally published ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those who feel that digital books should cost less than the dead - tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part of the equation.

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).

It turns out that Kindle eBooks are now selling a lot more copies than I would have guessed just yesterday, and the # 1 Kindle title is outselling the # 1 paper title, though it's impossible for me to say by how much..

Most comments agreed with my thoughts: Ebooks should be less expensive than paper books because -LSB-...]

It's not new news that ebook sales are growing faster than sales of traditional paper book.

Yes, I certainly don't think every ebook should be $ 0.99, but less than $ 10 works for me — and never more than the paper version.

I've seen examples on Amazon where the ebooks are actually MORE EXPENSIVE than new paper copies (primarily with trade paperbacks).

Hmm, going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good ebook price being 75 % of the paper version, I wonder if some of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or trade paperback version rather than the mass paperback format.

I'm adding more to my to - be-read pile (in both the ebook and paper book versions of that pile) than ever before.

But what we're paying for is the story and the author's work in putting it together, so while I do think an ebook should be a bit cheaper than the paper version, I don't think it should be dramatically different.

Clearly the expectation that ebooks should cost a lot less than paper copies of the books because of lower marginal costs of production doesn't match the reality that marginal cost of production really IS marginal even for paper books.

I have held the line at $ 9.99 since there is so much good stuff out there at that price point or less, but I resent having to pay more than paper at any time for an ebook, and I don't want to read paper when I have my kindle.

There are endless possibilities for ebooks to make reading more accessible and immersvie than ever, but as long as ebooks try to be paper books, they will remain stuck in an uncanny valley of disappointment.

I never understood why ebooks are costlier than say a paperback, the cost of printing and paper being removed and the thing that we don't actually own it but just a license to read the eBook.

I think publishers have been trying hard to convince them otherwise, by regularly pricing ebooks as much as or in some cases more than paper editions — so yeah, maybe these extended sales might «undervalue» titles to the extent that they remind people that they've been slowly brainwashed over time to expect to pay the same or more for «products» that are cheaper to produce.

But in general I personally think that $ 5.27 is a perfectly reasonable price for an ebook, and I think most readers EXPECT that an ebook, with no distribution costs or retail middle - man to pay, should be less than a paper book.

Tell me * why * an eBook should be that much cheaper than a paper volume?

If we keep this process going for as many years more as this has been going on already, there is no reason average eBooks should not be as accurate, or even more accurate, than books being published on paper.

One of my personal favorite things about eBooks is how easy it is to find your way around in them; even a three word phrase such as «not to be» only appears twice in Hamlet, so telling everyone how to find a certain place in an eBook is much easier than on paper, as giving the page number in a paper book only takes you within a thousand or two thousand characters of where you want to go.

For them we want to create a paper book, and it's a different creature to create a print cover than to set up an ebook cover.

It's available in a paper for less than $ 25, and even less as a Kindle ebook.

Because traditional publishers are often foolish in how they handle ebooks — insisting on seeing them as contenders for paper sales rather than a different market entirely and generally overpricing them, in addition to generally giving the authors a pittance of a royalty on them.

Ebooks are much easier to format than print books, and don't have the production costs associated with printing on paper with ink.

In a world where traditional publishers are still basically brokering to sell and warehouse paper rather than books (i.e. sticking to an antiquated business model in a market where ebooks are rapidly growing to be the majority of sales and shouldn't be ignored), this is a landmark deal.

Parents say they pay an average of $ 5.37 per ebook, which is a 33 % discount on what they say they will pay for paper books, but 40 % more than they say they will pay for apps.

I'm student from Mexico and I've found more practical to use eBooks and eReaders because pricing (in Mexico, the digital editions cost likely 30 % and 50 % less money than the physical ones), light weight, interactivity and ecological reasons (less paper used = less dead trees)

Sony took a different approach with its DPT - RP1 tablet, which features a display as large as a standard sheet of A4 paper and is meant for more than reading eBooks.

I haven't touched a paper book in years and I have more ebooks than I have time to read lately.

I'd guess midlist author paper sales on bookstore shelves are much smaller, percentage wise, than their ebook sales (legacy or self - pub).

I'm one of those ebook readers who still likes paper and embraces e simply for another alternative and the ability to carry books with me to more places than I could before.

These days it is a regular occurance for eBooks from the major publishing houses to be more expensive than the paper novels.

The focus on sales of eBook readers is misleading, because the first challenge is to change the book itself, so that it delivers far more value than the paper edition with which we are familiar.

Nielsen found that eBook readings took 6 % to 10 % longer than reading from paper.

I prefer ones that are built to look like an eBook rather than ones that look like printed paper.

eBooks are much cheaper than paper books and if the real price difference was reflected in list prices people would not be willing to pay the premium for paper books.

It is the only way, though i have to say it will not have ebooks for less than 5.99, or books less than 12.00 allowed to be listed, the Amazon $ 2 junk shop covers that well enough, and to sell ebooks you must have paper books listed and in stock.

Look, little boys and girls — Ebooks are now much more expensive than paper books.

The price of the eBook drops with each treeware release, so that it's always cheaper to buy the eBook than the available paper copy.

(I remember in the early days one publisher explicitly had «ebooks will be $ X cheaper than the cheapest paper copy» as a policy but their inventory system couldn't handle it.

Perhaps they think the primary aim of ebooks is «to not hurt paper book sales», rather than «to make things more convenient and cheaper for users».

eReaders and eBooks are going to continue to grow because they are much more convenient than paper books.

The shelf life of an eBook is considerable longer than the paper version so over time the income from the eBook has the potential to outweigh the paper version which has a shelf life of about six months tops.

The problem is — there is no scarcity, readers have all the power, ebooks cost less to make and sell than paper books and everyone knows it, there is infinite competition, readers aren't stupid.