Sentences with phrase «ebooks than physical books»

I will admit, that since I purchased an iPad, I've bought more ebooks than physical books (although more from Kindle than iBooks due to the selection.)

Amazon now sells more Kindle ebooks than physical books every single day.

Not exact matches

I think established authors who have some following can easily charge more for their books, although I still belong to the group of people who'd rather hold a physical copy of a book rather than an ebook, if I am able to:).

Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school libraries using the Axis 360 digital... [Read more...]

Something most people don't take into consideration when they say they love them, though, is that eBooks can be a greener choice than today's physical books end up being.

It works a lot like a normal library, but with Kindle eBooks rather than physical books.

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).

However, like many other readers, I prefer to read physical books rather than ebooks.

Customers can buy your eBook without ever having to leave their couch, and they'll spend way less money doing that than they would buying physical books at the mall.

of all book sales in the U.S., and with more than 60 % of all units (print and eBook) being sold via an online retailer, it's become increasingly easy to create a digital book and toss it into the marketplace, without the need for a physical product or a third - party publisher.

Because far more ebooks are sold every day than physical books.

With eBooks accounting for 30 - 35 % of all book sales in the U.S., and with more than 60 % of all units (print and eBook) being sold via an online retailer, it's become increasingly easy to create a digital book and toss it into the marketplace, without the need for a physical product or a third - party publisher.

i've seen physical books sell for less than an ebook.

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.

And, yes, I would definitely prefer to have a reader buy my ebook than move on instead of buying a book of mine in physical form.

Ebook prices usually trend much less than soft or hardcover alternatives, so if you have an ebook version, it is often (but not always) priced less than a physical Ebook prices usually trend much less than soft or hardcover alternatives, so if you have an ebook version, it is often (but not always) priced less than a physical ebook version, it is often (but not always) priced less than a physical book.

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?

I won't bother pointing out that ebooks are more ecologically friendly — something that the New York intelligentsia champions — than physical books.

There is still a distribution cost associated with an ebook if a publisher is selling through a retailer like Amazon and it is often more than the cost of distribution of a physical book.

Looking at it from the outside it seems the only likely reason for making the ebook cost more than a print book is to push readers towards physical books instead of digital.

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.

The bottom line is that Amazon's eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their new releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.

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.

My argument is that when eBooks are done right they so much cheaper than physical books (40 - 50 % cheaper) that if they were reasonably priced they'd turn hardcovers into high - end items.

If you opt for picture books, I hope you will get physical books rather than eBooks.

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

One experiment that I'd like to see would be an eBook price that starts HIGHER than the physical book but is available slightly earlier.

According to a recent study by Pricewaterhouse Coopers, by 2016 readers in the United States will spend more dollars on ebooks than on physical books!

The physical nature of print books means that they will always be priced higher than ebooks.

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 book.

Especially in a world where we now have eBooks, rather than physical books.

When I can so often go out and buy a physical paperback of a traditionally published book more cheaply than I can it's ebook version, there's something seriously wrong with the «legitimate» pricing structure.

For the first time ever, more eBooks were sold on Christmas Day than 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....

On the one hand it reinforces the idea of ebooks being «worth» less than physical books and on the other, the price of physical books is too high, why else would retailers be selling them at such large discounts.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO responded: «Ebooks should be cheaper than physical books.

«All ebooks will cost less than the physical books», Kessel told us as he detailed the launch of the new Amazon Kindle store in the UK, before adding: «Customers believe that electronic books should be cheaper than physical books and we agree».

You are not losing possession of your ebooks any more than you lost that physical book off of a shelf to someone in your own household picked it up.

I don't buy the argument that a physical book has any more inherent value than an ebook.

Customers can read many complete eBooks available in Barnes & Noble's expansive eBookstore of more than one million digital titles, even if the physical book is not in stock.

So, while an ebook might have less value to you than a physical book, there are definitely specific classes of books (i.e. those that I read as disposable entertainment) for which an ebook has greater value to me.

I will still argue that ebooks should cost less than physical books * because you get less.

In our heads, at least, readers tend to view ebooks as a different entity with a different price point than a physical book, especially hardcover.

«Ebooks, whether on an e-reader, an iPad or a smartphone, are a vastly more convenient experience than physical books and are most certainly the way of the future,» Mashable's chief correspondent and tech guru Lance Ulanoff wrote in response to the news.

And there's a social layer that forms around this, another timeline of reading reviews and discussing with friends, that the ebook could actually exploit better than the physical book, if we work on it some more.

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

Under the VAT Directive, countries can give a reduced rate of tax to «the supply of books... on all physical means of support», but the court decided that eBooks did not include a «physical medium», saying instead that eBooks constitute an «electronically supplied service» rather than «goods».

As reported by The Guardian, «HarperCollins» revenues from physical books were down 6 % over the last 12 months, although digital sales are expanding robustly and now account for more than one fifth of sales... expects demand for ebooks to continue to grow before plateauing at roughly 50 % of all book sales.»

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.

Definitely one of the advantages of selling eBooks over physical books, albeit most buyers are looking to purchase eBooks at a much lower price than physical books.