Sentences with phrase «ebooks than hardback»

The news comes hot on the heals of Amazon announcing that it now sells more Kindle ebooks than hardback books via its US Kindle store.

According to an Amazon UK release, the company is now selling more ebooks than hardback or paperback books in Britain, a tipping point that we reached in the U.S. over a year ago.

Ebooks are increasingly maintream, with Amazon now selling more ebooks than hardbacks.

Not exact matches

It makes no sense when a publisher prices an ebook at a price equal or greater than a hardback book.

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I mean seriously, if Joe Konrath can make more selling his ebooks at $ 2.99 than he would get in royalties off a $ 24 HARDBACK, there's something seriously wrong with the money side of things in traditional publishing.

I would happily pay even $ 7 for many books, rather than the usual formula of $ 30 or so for a hardback, $ 15 or so for a paperback or ebook (usually only a few percent different.)

Amazon is now selling more eBooks than they are paperbacks and hardbacks - has that changed the way you work?

Do you think being published in ebook format is any less exciting than being published in a real physical book, be it hardback or mass market paperback?

But, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal, there are book publishers who are pushing back on the notion of releasing an eBook version of a new book for a price any less than the retail price of the same book's hardback version.

The quantity of formatting and punctuation errors in the ebooks I have purchased is astounding, and is far greater than any issues I've discovered when reading hardbacks.

At this point, I feel $ 9.99 is more than fair until the quality of the ebook product is comparable to the hardback version of the book.

But I won't pay more for an ebook than for a hardback, and I won't buy hardbacks anymore.

There's no reason for an ebook to cost more than a paperback, much less more than a hardback.

But Amazon's new release hardbacks are not that much more than their previous ebook price — I routinely get them for $ 12 to $ 14, which is only a couple of bucks more than the ebook.

Where other categories of fiction are pricing ebooks at trade paperback prices at best, or above hardback prices at worst (who in Hel's Misty Halls do they justify charging more for an ebook than for a hardback?)

So I was dismayed and disappointed when I discovered its publisher (Viking, a part of Penguin Group) has used the potentially unlawful agency model of eBook pricing to force Amazon to sell the Kindle version of the book for $ 9 more than what it charges for the hardback version.

Amazon UK now sells more ebooks than paperback and hardback print editions combined.

I have seen Kindle editions (most often new releases) priced higher than hardback or paperback versions... especially when the ebook is priced at $ 12 USD and up.

I know in these discussions people always talk about the reduced cost of production of eBooks is less than for hardback books and as you say its not really relevant but what is (in my view) is the rights associated with the purchase.

Just like paperbacks were cheaper and easier to carry and store than hardbacks, ebooks are cheaper and easier to store than paperbacks.

At the Digital Book World conference in January 2017, Nielsen presented 2016 data from more than 30 traditional US publishers showing a fall in eBook sales from 2015 to 2016 and hardback unit sales overtaking eBooks for the first time since 2012.

We also know from this slide from HarperCollins that publishers are now making better margins on ebooks than on their hardbacks, a fact that agent Brian DeFlore says publishers have been lying to agents about for years.

Pyrofer, one of the reasons eBooks are not lower than paperbacks is that they tend to come out at roughly the same time as hardbacks.