Sentences with phrase «for mmpb»
I also think I have a different line in the sand for what I will pay for mmpb and ebooks.
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Additionally (and it may be a French specificity), the publisher which has rights for the «trade paperback version» (and the ebook), resells the rights for the MMPB to a secondary publisher (sometimes in the same publishing group, but not always).
They think people will pay more for an e-book than they will print copies — and let's be honest, the $ 14.99 for this e-book is more than we'd pay for the mmpb version.
The percentage I'd get for mmpb or tpb is less but the agent's cut remains the same.
Not exact matches
I will observe that at volumes of 80K +, the narrower margins of mmpbs (and even tbps) more than makeup for the lack of hardcover margins, so I don't think the underlying math changes so much.
Romance also has much larger numbers than sf / f — I recall a romance writer friend of mine complaining that her latest mmpb release «only» sold 80,000 copies, and wasn't going back for a second printing.
Cost really is an issue for me and I desided I could buy a lot of books for the price of a Kindle, especially since I buy most of my reading material in mmpb.
I've been thrilled with ebook prices as MMPBs are often $ 15 here and hardcovers $ 40, so I've had to be a lot choosier about buying books brand new for quite a few years.