Sentences with phrase «ebooks than paper books»

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

That is to say that I think most people feel that an eBook is less valuable than a real live (dead in Jeff Jarvis» world) paper book.

You've found one of the things paper books do better than ebooks: the impression of value for money by page size to the browsing buyer.

The limitations of ebooks is one reason I believe paper books will be around much longer than some claim.

Earn better royalties when you publish an eBook, better than paper back books, or hardcover books.

If paper books are so expensive due to printing, ink, distribution etc etc then ebooks should be less expensive than paper books, not more.

So in practice, I wrestle with purchasing an ebook at the same or higher price than the paper book (which I will get to actually own).

It seems to me that paper books are more fungible than ebooks because mushrooms prefer the more biodegradable food source.

A paper book is still easier to navigate than an eBook, by flipping through pages and chapters via the physical pages.

These capabilities are necessary for interactive digital textbooks and digital magazines, and more generally to enable eBooks to evolve into a new medium, rather than simply be digital equivalents of paper books.

What do you think of this study and its claim that eBook Readers (the Kindle in particular) is more eco friendly than paper books?

Amazon ebooks give you less freedom than paper books (see http://stallman.org/articles/ebooks.pdf).

Given the marginal cost of publishing a book electronically, you would expect that eBooks would be somewhat cheaper than real paper books, especially given your up - front investment in the reader.

I like physical books a lot more than ebooks (I don't have a tablet or ereader so the best I can do is a laptop, which is shit compared to paper books) so pirating ebooks would only cheapen my reading experience, excuse the pun.

But you can't change an ebook that has been sold any more than you can change a paper book that's been sold.

We make more from each ebook sale than my wife ever made from each paper or ebook sale when she was traditionally published, and she sells way more books also because they are lower priced.

The Japan Times reports that close to 70 % of Japanese in their 20s prefer traditional paper to digital books, while less than 50 % of those in their 70s feel the same way, according to a survey conducted by BookLive Co., an ebook arm of Toppan Printing Co..