Sentences with phrase «ebooks over paper»

And more and more people are opting for eBooks over paper.

I totally take eBooks over paper every time, but then my day job is with an environmental consulting firm.

I would prefer receiving an ebook over a paper book, but agree that a paperbook may be perceived as a more valuable gift, especially if it has a nice cover.

Not exact matches

Over the past 20 years, he has published hundreds of articles, white papers, eBooks, and blog posts and presented on dozens of webinars on a wide range of marketing topics, including B2B marketing, marketing automation, conversion optimization, and search marketing.

Instead of just handing over contact information for an ebook or white paper, quiz takers are engaged with thought provoking, compelling and fun questions.

eBook publishing will never fully replace paper book publishing, but over the next decade or so, we will see eBooks gain a much larger percentage of the total books bought and sold around the world.

A number of ebooks have been purchased over textbooks, Mannix said, and many student assignments and tests have been administered through Chromebooks instead of on paper.

based on what I see here NYC - way more commuters reading ebooks vs paper... but if this is true for the fly overs - what becomes of this site?

Paper is an old technology that is still in use for a variety of reasons, but offers no demonstrable advantage over ebooks.

Anything over a fiver is unjustified as there is not paper or ink or manufacturing costs for copies after the initial production of an ebook.

In all of these scenarios, the marginal cost of production is not going to be even $ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over $ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last big brick Harry Potter novels cost a teeny bit more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much more), meaning that if we're talking marginal cost of production as the difference in price between a paperback and an ebook, we're not talking about a huge difference in price.

People who have amassed libraries of paper books over many years were left behind by ebook distributors.

It's not a surprise that readers have taken such a shine to eBooks, given their ultimate portability over paper copies, but the real convenience of an ebook is their availability to almost anyone thanks to the Internet.

Whether over the original concerns from parents of expensive device damage and enhanced ebooks being likened to video games, or the young adults» own feedback that reading was for paper, devices were for socialization, children's publishing even now is awfully slow to catch up.

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.

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.

Interestingly, Digital Book World reported on a brief study conducted in 2011 that showed that while children preferred to read identical content in electronic form over paper with the same level of comprehension, the level of recall actually was less when comparing an enhanced ebook to a standard digital edition.

Electronic paper (or ePaper) represents a category of display solutions that have become quite popular over the past year or so, mostly due to the rapid «rise to stardom» of the various eBook readers that have made their way onto the market within this time frame and that make very good use of this technology.

The final unique feature of ebooks over their conventional counterpart is the affect on the environment, no trees cut down for paper or packaging, no carbon produced or bleaches used by production factories, no shop outlets to heat or light, no recycling problem at the end of their life and no convoys of trucks delivering them.

Not that people have stopped reading books or anything like that, instead ebooks have taken over paper books for the tech savvy people.

The Kindle didn't just set price expectations for ebooks below those of paper books, it also set them at a level above zero, which is much more important for publishers over the long run as they navigate the transition to digital.

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.

With the advent of technology, the debate over eBooks and their paper printed versions are common.

Many indie authors eschew pbooks over ebooks because of costs and royalties and other things (I can release an ebook more efficiently than a pbook), but even Amazon does paper (Create Space).

While some of their customers may be reluctant to switch from paper to electronic reading devices, ebook creators are continuously coming up with ways to win them over.

I believe a lot of readers still prefer paper over ebooks.

As the marketing advantege that comes from paper books declines with the decline of paper, publishers lose the powerful indirect marketing effect that spills over to their eBooks.

eBooks have one built - in advantage over paper - based books, and that's the ability for the author and publisher to include hyperlinks to resources and websites.

eBooks have an advantage over paper books in that they're more portable (you can fit an entire documentation library on an SDcard) and are, in some cases, cheaper to produce.

I still can't quite accept the idea that before I can read I have to shell out over $ 100 for a device, and the price of ebooks has crept up very close to the cost of a regular paper book so what's the advantage (that's aimed mostly at home readers not travelers).

I know I'll buy a book in paper if the ebook is over $ 5.

The Green Swan eBook is over 30,000 words, 82 pages on normal 8.5 x 11 paper, and over a year in the making to help you get on the path toward financial independence!

The eBook has been in development for the last year, is over 30,000 words, 82 pages on normal 8.5 x 11 paper and is now published and ready to go!

Couple this with a simple fact: people still strongly prefer paper books over ebooks.

($ 14.95 ebook / $ 18.95 paper; 136 pp.; accompanying CD - Rom has type - over federal resume and cover letter templates.)