Sentences with phrase «ebooks than printed books»

It's much more convenient to offer one - day promotions for ebooks than printed books.

The latest report (through a Google translation) says that ebook sales tripled in the final quarter of 2012, and for the first time they sold more ebooks than printed books.

I've heard figures from big publishers stating that many new releases sell more ebooks than print books.

Now, there's less of a «doorstop effect» with ebooks than print books.

Part of readers» refusal to spend the same money for an eBook edition stems from readers» awareness that it costs less to produce eBooks than print books.

Amazon sells more ebooks than print books, and they have since 2011!

I typically feel the same way and don't want to pay more for an ebook than a print book.

This means that consumers buy books in their digital form because they know they want it, and it's easier to have as an ebook than a print book.

Last year Amazon sold more ebooks than print books.

True to the «digital disruption's» name, it's been far easier to get out an ebook than a print book, even with POD (print on demand) services such as the very advanced ones provided by Geuppert's Books on Demand.

But if Amazon is selling more ebooks than print books and if I were a big brand publisher, I'd be jumping out of a window right now.

Print publishing is more complicated, costly and time - consuming than ebook publishing, and although print books still account for the majority of book industry sales, many self - published authors sell more ebooks than print books.

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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.

I still read books, but I consume far more ebooks, audiobooks, ezines, eletters, webinars, teleseminars and email than printed material.

Pan Macmillan has been punching above its weight in digital, getting a bigger market share of ebooks in the UK than it had of print books.

So far, we've been formatting our ebooks more like our print books than our Web pages.

Your eBook versions should be cheaper than your print version, for example, Amazon require that your eBook be at least 20 % cheaper than your print book.

eBook sales don't account for any more than 30 % of all books sold, which means the majority of the market is in printed books.

What's interesting here is that the second mode of discovery, «in - person - received recommendation from a a friend or relative» — generally termed word - of - mouth — seems to be somewhat less effective for ebooks than for print books.

The common rationale is that since ebooks cost a fraction of printing a real book, they should also be priced much less than what it is right now.

So, the reason for buying an ebook even if it's available to borrow from the library is the same reason you would want to buy a print book rather than check it out — you want to re-read it or you want to have your copy — whether physically on the bookshelf in your home or on the shelf of your ereader.

You can provide the loser with an ebook in any format you wish, from free to paid, but remembering that simply using his email address to «gift» him the ebook from Amazon will cost you less than the price of your print book and will increase your ebook ranking.

This, together with the lack of a pan-Russian book sales network like Barnes & Noble, that creates the perfect setting for ebooks to thrive, and as is evident elsewhere in the world, digital editions are already luring more readers than their printed counterparts.

(In fact, DRM on ebooks still gives you more options than a printed book does.

Retailers can not discount a book more than ten percent now, and that restriction applies to both print and ebooks.

But that's nothing compared to the head - scratching that the EU's highest court has caused when they upheld the ruling this week that ebooks were not books, and therefore would be taxed at a higher VAT rate than their print counterparts.

PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates «consumer eBooks will drive $ 8.2 billion in sales by 2017, surpassing projected print book sales, which it thinks will shrink by more than half during that period.»

«The attractiveness of some eBooks is likely to be down to a cringe factor, with more than one - in - ten people admitting they download books because they are more discreet to read than their printed equivalents.

The results also showed that those between the ages of 18 and 44 were more likely to have listened to an audiobook than read a print book or ebook.

Like the publishing process itself, our service covers much more than just book layout or ebook conversion (though we do that too — you'll get Kindle and EPUB ebook editions and, if you want, a printed edition made available worldwide.)

So assuming those are pro rates for getting your book edited, covered, formatted, and distributed as ebook and print on demand, the questions you should ask yourself is IF a publisher is asking for $ 800 up front from you are: — is the percentage they take of your work going to equal more than that other $ 800?

Consumers expect prices to be lower than print books, largely because ebooks have long been a clearly inferior product to print.

2 min readWriting in The Guardian, Stuart Kelly has proposed a radical idea: that eBooks should be treated as a different genre than regular print books.

3) A New York Review of Books blog post argues that ebooks preserve the essence of the written word better than print bBooks blog post argues that ebooks preserve the essence of the written word better than print booksbooks.

What I really wanted to title this post was here are five ways a print - on - demand book can help an author make more money than if they published only an eBook, and CreateSpace is the easiest and most pain - free way to produce a book in print.

We recommend that you publish an ebook in addition to print version (s), so as not to limit your readership, and you'll save money if you have the same book cover designed for both formats at once rather than starting over if you decide to add an ebook version later.

On top of this Amazon apparently demands a higher discount from retail prices on eBooks than it does on printed books.

We always make sure our ebook prices are less than our print prices But because the sales are now spread between print and digital the costs can't be that dramatically different because otherwise we would end up with much less revenue... unless you want to argue if the book were 4.99 we'd possibly sell a lot more ebooks.

A new Pew Research Center survey finds that print books are still more popular than ebooks and audiobooks for Americans.

Think of this: 100 % of all eBooks and audiobooks, and more than half of all print books, are sold online.

Buying a Kindle, he suggested, led to increased book purchasing across both ebook and print formats, with a typical Kindle owner buying on average more than three times as many books as she did before.

But in general, I believe the quality of ebooks is much lower than that of printed books; from both traditional and self publishers.

Publishers are generally setting the retail prices for the eBooks at the same level (or sometmes roughly 10 % lower) than the print version of the same book.

Also the typesetting process is different for print books than ebooks and is much more expensive.

That may change as more so - called digital natives progress into higher education and as ebook reader technology gets better, but for now, 60 % of students would rather pay for a low - cost printed book than use a free digital version.

There are more than 32 million books in print, and some industry observers believe that 50,000 new ebooks get released for Kindle every month.

With the growing popularity of ebook readers like the Kindle and iPad, more and more people are reading on a screen rather than from printed books.

Keep in mind with print books it's totally different than just ebooks.

The normal customer is not going to rip off your ebook any more than lending a print book to a few friends.