Sentences with phrase «even as hardcover»

Less than one year after introducing the UK Kindle Store, Amazon.co.uk is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books, even as hardcover sales continue to grow.

Although I would argue that traditional publishers» net profit on hardcovers is probably slimmer than it used to be, given the growing costs of warehousing, shipping, and manufacturing even as hardcover book sales are decreasing.

Not exact matches

The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage by Ellis Cose Ecco Books Hardcover, $ 24.99 320 pages ISBN: 978 -0-06-199855-3 Book Review by Kam Williams «The End of Anger is an exploration of why it is that many blacks are feeling optimistic these days... [This] is a book about success — about a particularly privileged, even indulged, group of African - Americans whose experiences in many respects are far from the norm... In January 2009, on the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration, a CNN poll found that 69 % of blacks agreed that Martin Luther King's vision had been fulfilled... The election of an African - American president was a Rubicon to be crossed... No longer are there any excuses for denying blacks anything or for blacks denying themselves the opportunity to aim as high as they wish.»

We have even heard reports that in the Netherlands some e-books cost double the amount as a hardcover.

That's nice, but even for an author I really like, I'd rather wait another year for the paperback than spend twice as much on the hardcover right now anyway.

But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.

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.

You can even publish a hardcover special edition to sign and give to family and friends as Christmas gifts.

The other thing that our listeners should know is that even though we're touting «e», electronic, and eBooks as being important, the fact of the matter is print is still the dominant format; especially paperback, but also hardcover.

Well, even if you claim your books to Author Central, you may have multiple versions or what they refer to as editions: Kindle, paperback, hardcover, audio, etc..

Are there authors whose readers really, really want the bound copy, even if (as for hardcovers), it's more expensive than the e-book?

In a world that has a lot of eReaders, hardcovers will keep their position as higher end reading means, will be collected for personal libraries and will morph into even more cherished possessions.

While we were on the line I even experimentally purchased the book to see what price I was charged as their representative said they would refund the price if I was charged USD45 — which I was, so they refunded me the money and cancelled the sale (the hardcover was much cheaper than USD45!).

There were still a substantial number of hardcover - priced paperback e-books on Fictionwise even as late as the imposition of agency pricing in 2010.

We're publishing new titles and rights - reverted backlist books, and releasing them as eBooks, print - on - demand paperbacks, and even hardcover.»

Amazon gets to have its wholesale price for first run bestselling hardcovers — even though e-books isn't a wholesale market, that's print mass market paperback — and raise prices for others in the market and control the price for e-books in the market, as they do with the self - published authors.

If there is any change we are likely to see, at least from legacy publishers, it is that there will be even fewer mmpbs on the shelves now as they try to find more and more ways to push hardcover sales.

Even if we can, a number of us have quit buying as many hardcovers as we once did.

Throughout all of last year Amazon sold 115 Kindle ebooks for every 100 paperbacks sold, and three times as many Kindle books as hardcovers — considering paperback sales continued to grow and free Kindle ebooks were omitted that's even more impressive.

Hardcover, 223 pages Expected publication: April 24th 2018 by Random House Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them.

In pursuit of justification to charge a higher price for e-books than, say, $ 9.99 — perhaps even as much for an e-book as a hardcover — there has been much discussion of possibility of producing «enhanced» e-books.

We also, when available provide links for hardcover, paperback and even audio books as well.

(Admittedly, there are very good cooking sites that I favor when I do look online, but even those recipes have not been as rigorously tested as ones in a hardcover book.)