Sentences with phrase «hardcover editions priced»

In this case, the author had sold about 12,500 copies of a hardcover edition priced at $ 16.99, but she had earned only 10 % for all of those copies.

Not exact matches

Amazon is selling the hardcover edition of Jonathan Franzen's new novel «Purity» for $ 15.10 — 11 cents more than the $ 14.99 e-book price set by Macmillan Publishers, a unit of closely heldVerlagsgruppe Georg von HoltzbrinckGmbH, which declined to comment.

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.

(It is entirely possible to get a newly - published hardcover at a lower price than the e-book edition.)

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.

He said Amazon could continue to buy e-books on the same terms it does now — allowing the retailer to set consumer prices — but that the publisher would delay the release of all digital editions by several months after the hardcover publication.

In some cases, the hardcovers are priced below the Kindle editions.

The special editions, which will include author interviews and other material, such as reading guides, will carry a list price slightly higher than the hardcover edition.

I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the price of a hardcover textbook up to over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used» book market obsolete.

Most ebooks offer a substantial price reduction from the corresponding hardcover or paper edition.

The book is published by Random imprint Doubleday, which means that Amazon controls price and discounting in the Kindle Store just as brick - and - mortar booksellers control price and discounting for the hardcover edition.

You can always revisit producing a second edition or a hardcover version later for a higher selling price.

Will the book's market prefer a high - end hardcover edition if a book is designed as gift item, despite the high retail price it might command?

So why exactly do so many e-book readers think that they are entitled to an e-book edition in their preferred format at the same time as the hardcover for less than half the price?

One example: The Kindle edition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything is just $ 7.96, and traditionalists could buy a used copy of the hardcover for about the same price with shipping included.

Collecting eighteen short stories, The Crater will be released as a limited edition, 2000 copy run with a hardcover finish, colour inserts and a current price of $ 34.95 / US.

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.

However, on the flip side, Penguin is having hard time dealing with Amazon who has got into selling some of its hardcover editions at a very low price, thereby dealing a blow to the publishing house.

This creates an environment where most new hardcovers cost less than the e-book on the day it comes out and when the paperback edition is eventually released the price is normally halved, while the e-book price will never change.

A recent notable exception was Walter Issacsson» Steve Jobs biography which was offered as an e-book at the same time, albeit at the same price, as the hardcover edition (in Japan the biography was published in two parts with a combined price of $ 50 compared to a street price of about $ 17 in the US).

I know we generally print tradepaper editions of hardcover books exclusively for Canada so that the books are more reasonably priced there.

Personalized, limited edition hardbacks for super fans may also hold higher prices, for example, Cory Doctorow's hand - bound, hardcover of With A Little Help for $ 275.

Allowing publishers to charge the same price for digital editions as they do for new hardcover books is just wrong.

Mr. Turvey said that Google would probably allow publishers to charge consumers the same price for digital editions as they do for new hardcover versions.

This Kindle edition actually costs 48 cents more than its hardcover edition, which is still well below the standard price for new hardcovers.

The low $ 9.99 price - point of Kindle eBooks has led me to purchase many books in a «try before you buy the hardcover edition» fashion — so I'm willing to make more impulse purchases of books to «audition» authors if the topic fascinates me.

* See IngramSpark vs. CreateSpace: When Color Printing and Hardcover Editions Are Important for example pricing.

I'm sure they still exist although I'm not sure if Amazon makes them any interesting now, it was how I got into Lord of the Rings, as I ended up paying some $ 1.25 for it rather than the price of $ 30 for the same (hardcover) edition.

Second, the Apple Agency Agreements contained pricing tiers (ostensibly setting maximum prices) for e-books — virtually identical across the Publisher Defendants» agreements — based on the list price of each e-book's hardcover edition.

They are talking about a tiny percentage of Hachette international booklist — the newest or most successful and fairly recent of their bestselling authors — the ones where the price is highest (although still much less than the hardcover edition,) for the premium of getting the e-book right away.

When a book becomes a film, for instance, the hardcover, trade paperback and mass market paperback editions of that book may all end up back on the bestseller list at the same time, despite the mass market being the cheapest (and the e-book too — that's one time where the e-book price may be raised again because they know people will pay it.)

Macmillan said Amazon could continue to buy e-books under its current wholesale model, paying the publisher 50 percent of the hardcover list price while pricing the e-book at any level Amazon chooses, but that Macmillan would delay those e-book editions by seven months after hardcover release.

While e-book sales have been leveling off as they absorbed the replacement audience for mass market paperbacks — because e-book prices are cheap in mass market territory — the sector of e-books that have been selling the best are the first - run new bestsellers — the ones with the highest e-book prices initially (although those prices come down over time, just like a paperback edition and the e-book prices are lower than hardcover and trade paper usually.)

A reader has tweeted me about an ebook edition of a new novel priced at $ 16.99, well above the hardcover price.

In Business Musings: Price Wars and Victims, she writes about pre-ordering Sara Paretsky's Brush Back, and by the time the release date had arrived, «the Kindle edition was $ 13.99 and the hardcover was $ 13.»

Like an advance, the amount you receive per book sold (to a retailer at the wholesale price) will vary based on many factors, although typically it will be on the smaller side — say 6.5 % to 10 % for print editions (rates differ for paperbacks versus hardcovers) and 25 % for eBooks.

One example: The Kindle edition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything is just US$ 7.96, and traditionalists could buy a used copy of the hardcover for about the same price with shipping included.

Because hardcovers cost a little money to produce, publishers began producing cheap paper - bound editions that cost less to manufacture so that they could cut the price after a while.

The standard hardcover edition of the book, which actually looks quite nice and well presented, is priced at # 37.00 and is available for pre-order right now.

This hardcover edition of Voids serves as a catalogue to the Centre Pompidou's retrospective of empty exhibitions, curated by the dream team of Laurent Le Bon, John Armleder, Mathieu Copeland, Gustav Metzger, Mai - Thu Perret, and Clive Phillpot, and featuring Yves Klein, Robert Barry, Art & Language, Stanley Brouwn, Laurie Parsons, Bethan Huws, Robert Irwin, Maria Eichhorn, Roman Ondák; but it also supplies a crucial anthology of texts, with contributions by artists and writers such as Stuart Comer, Brian O'Doherty, Ralph Rugoff, Jon Savage, Sarah Wilson, Peter Downsbrough, Lawrence Weiner, Sherrie Levine, Seth Price, Trisha Donnelly, Wade Guyton and Olivier Mosset, among others.

Priced at $ 50 and offered in a hardcover edition, the catalogue may be purchased at the Guggenheim Store or at the Online Store at guggenheimstore.org beginning in late March.