Sentences with phrase «expensive than paper 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.
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/
Look, little boys and girls — Ebooks are now much more expensive than paper books.
Most comments agreed with my thoughts: Ebooks should be less expensive than paper books because -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Moreover, e-books downloads are always less expensive than the same books on paper; with hundreds of thousand available online for free!
Primarily, it's less expensive to publish and distribute e-books than paper books.
It really opens up a whole new world and though the original investment is $ 79.00, once you own a Kindle, downloading newspapers alone is much cheaper than buying the paper variety and you can borrow Kindle books from your local library, Amazon's lending llibrary and there are tons of really good free Kindle books to be had too, so it really isn't expensive in the long run.
Add in the price factor (Print On Demand books tend to be more expensive than trad - pub print runs), and it's tough to get those paper books into kids hands.
Also, the reason most publishers print books here in the states (and not in China) is two fold — the US uses a different measurement system than most other countries and that affects available paper sizes, and it's REALLY expensive to SHIP all that heavy paper across the ocean (and takes a REALLY long time).