The author and commentator Kristine Kathryn Rusch walks us through her surprise at finding a long - awaited new
hardcover at Amazon selling for less than the ebook price on its release date.
You wouldn't complain that someone buying a mass - market paperback for $ 6.99 at an airport was undercutting your ability to sell a $ 24.99
hardcover at Barnes and Noble, that would be ludicrous.
I do know, for sure, that what you're paying for when you buy
a hardcover at full price isn't the object.
Trade pub wants to sell one
hardcover at $ 30, not ten books at $ 3.
And
the hardcover at the time was on discount from Amazon.
With such a beautiful cover, my preferred method for getting this book would be a signed
hardcover at full price ($ 26.95) from some place like Mysterious Galaxy
And their hardcovers are beautiful (since you're non-fic, I didn't know if you'd be thinking
hardcover at all).
They could be reading your paperback or
hardcover at home, but for their commute in the morning, they want to read on their phone or their tablet that they can just throw in their bag and go.
(It is entirely possible to get a newly - published
hardcover at a lower price than the e-book edition.)
Now, I either stick to the 99 cent eBooks or I buy used
hardcovers at $ 4 - 5 with shipping because I'm just not willing to buy 80 books a year at an average price of $ 12.
Amazon is now playing the game well with Penguin and is putting pressure on the publisher by selling
the hardcovers at rock bottom $ 9.99 price, something that triggered Penguin to adopt the agency model.
To give a clear indication to its customers that Amazon is still in the game, it is providing select
hardcovers at a discount price despite the fact that it is not able to sell the digital editions of Penguin books.
What set paperbacks apart from
hardcovers at the time was the ability to appeal to an audience with popular genre writing.
Six months ago, Amazon announced that e-books were outselling
hardcovers at the world's largest bookseller; now, Amazon announced that e-books are outselling paperbacks (for Amazon U.S. sales).
Not exact matches
At its peak, Encyclopedia Britannica sold 120,000
hardcover sets of its books.
I recently had the privilege of interviewing Adams, who is preparing for the softcover release of his book How to Fail
at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, which is currently available in
hardcover.
He shares his journey from office worker and serial failure to success in his latest book, How to Fail
at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, currently available in
hardcover.
You will receive one
hardcover copy of «Foundr Version 1.0» + one digital version of «Foundr Version 1.0» (EPUB or PDF)
at a DISCOUNTED PRICE!
Example: The
hardcover edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone will cost you $ 13.97
at Amazon.com, while the award - winning audio edition will run you $ 34.97 (for cassette; or get «em for under 10 and 30 bucks respectively
at half.com).
The first
hardcover edition sold 600,000 copies;
at one point, an unprecedented 10,000 orders were coming in a day.
At the tourist office I load up on maps and brochures, with plans to return for a
hardcover book on Espelette and one of the official tee shirts.
I don't know if they print in the UK but I used to order books from Amazon UK for US delivery all the time for college classes, and the magazine's been serialized into large
hardcover books for each of
at least the last two years.
Nicette Jukelevics Foreword by Charles Mahan, M.D. 304 pages, graphs, photos Praeger Publishers Media Type:
Hardcover Book available
at a discount from ICEA.org (with membership or registration) and from Amazon.com Buy your copy from Amazon using GoodSearch and the vendor will donate to the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS).
Nothing beats practically new books
at $ 0.99 for paperback and $ 1.99 for
hardcover!
Game Red Knight figurine A4 DARK SOULS Trilogy
hardcover artbook Metal case Official Soundtrack (CD) 3x iron - on patches Cloth game - map Exclusive box Prestige Edition (Available only
at Amazon UK)
The book though runs much cheaper
at around $ 15 dollars but I still would prefer to pay a bit more and get a nice
hardcover.
Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press
Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but
at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?
Also included inside this combo pack is a special gift of a Shutterfly 20 - page 8 × 8
hardcover photo book which is valued
at $ 29.99.
And would you pay
at least $ 14 to put it on your tablet (or, for those of you still reading traditional books, pay
at least $ 20 for the paperback or
hardcover)?
Before the agency model, Amazon was buying new ebook releases
at the wholesale price of the
hardcovers, then turning around and selling them for retail
at dollars less.
In 2006, Latoya joined Grand Central Publishing, an imprint
at Hachette Book Group, where she acquired a variety of titles from
Hardcover fiction and non-fiction, to digital romance and erotica.
If you have already published your book in only one or two formats (Paperback,
Hardcover or eBook) and now wish to issue a different format, simply click on the following link, «My books > Published and saved books» and select the format you wish to publish next —
at no extra cost!
At Spark, we offer a
hardcover option and we've talked about it before in past podcasts.
I signed with Don Fehr
at Trident and, a short time later I had a publishing contract with Berkley Books, which recently published my book in
hardcover.
Amazon Author Page: 4 out of 5 of these authors have pages Number of Reviews: each book has
at least 186 reviews / 4.5 out of 5 star average Formats Available: 5 of these books are available in e-book,
hardcover, paperback, audio download formats, 3 of them are available in mp3 CDs as well Publication date: These books were released between March 4 and September 23, 2014 Website: There doesn't appear to be a website for one of these authors.
The same as a
hardcover is cheaper
at # 10.
By the way, if you were discouraged from reading Fall of Giants by the high price (the
hardcover is $ 36 and the paperback is $ 25) or long hold lists
at the library, you'll be happy to hear that a mass market paperback edition hits bookstores on September 4.
Similarly, the
hardcover version of the book, The Chronicles of Downton Abbey which is sold along with the TV series also enjoys about # 3 price benefit for the
hardcover version which is sold
at # 12.99 as an ebook.
And, as always, Barnes & Noble offers select New Releases
at 20 % -30 % off and
Hardcover Fiction and Non-Fiction Bestsellers
at 40 % off for Members and 30 % off for non-Members.
We also dug up two other contenders, both published
at $ 23.99 in
hardcover by Little, Brown:
The Association of American Publishers has just released their annual report that takes a look
at the overall health of the industry and how well audiobooks, e-books,
hardcover and paper sales are doing.
I think just the novelty of e-books have waned,
at first it was all like «wow i can buy a bestselling e-book for $ 3 or $ 4 on Amazon, and its $ 30 in
hardcover.
At 45 I also started out with cabinets and cabinets full of books (
hardcover and paperback) that I loved to covet and display but a few years ago jumped into the Kindle.
As of today, The Big Sheep is available in
hardcover, Kindle, and various other ebook formats (more links
at the end of this post).
For books I love, I think nothing of buying them
at full - price
hardcover prices.
At first release, concurrent with a
hardcover, most titles will be priced between $ 14.99 and $ 12.99.
It hit the Indie
Hardcover Fiction Best Seller list
at # 11 last week, moves up to # 9 this week and is showing heavy holds in several libraries.
Although more e-books are now sold each year than
hardcover books, e-books are not yet very popular
at libraries.
Justine Bylo [00:10:44] Again, it can cost you anywhere from $ 500 to a couple thousand dollars if you are doing the
hardcover, paperback, and eBook cover all
at the same time.
On several best books lists, it just cracked the NYT
Hardcover Nonfiction list
at # 15.