Sentences with phrase «frontlist hardcover sales»
At that time, publishers made a killing on frontlist e-book sales as compared to frontlist hardcover sales — at the author's expense — because, as compared to today, the price of e-books was relatively high.
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So the e-books include almost every title that is selling, while the hardcover sales are divided among a much smaller set of frontlist titles.
(You also have to factor whether a discounted frontlist ebook is going to further cannibalize any hardcover sales, which still yield bigger credits to the author.)