Sentences with phrase «hardcover prices»

In fact, B&N argues, e-book and hardcover prices have fallen under agency pricing.»

The publishers worried aloud to one another that the $ 9.99 ebook price point would lead to the erosion of hardcover prices, to ever - greater ebook popularity, and ultimately, perhaps, to demands by Amazon that the publishers lower their wholesale prices.

Authors I know I like (like Sarah) I'll pay more, but paying hardcover prices for an e-book ain't happening.

I have paid hardcover prices for electrons in the past, and will probably be pushed into it again but I'll bitch about it.

I read that the Hobbit ebook will drop from $ 24.99 to $ 17.99, only double the paperback and hardcover prices.

so the publisher wants hard cover or near hardcover prices, for a product that in effect is all gravy for them, they already did the work to get the book edited and formated and proof read (for the dead tree version), effectively they want the same $ for a less valuable product.

Our hardcover prices include everything you need for a high - quality affordable, children's book.

It has the ISBN prefix of a St. Martin's Press book, although St. Martin's hardcover prices usually end in».99.»

For books I love, I think nothing of buying them at full - price hardcover prices.

But some author mills inflate prices even beyond that point, charging higher - than - hardcover prices for trade paperback - size books.

The hardcover pricing dilemma facing authors who don't automatically jump to the top of best - seller lists

I'd expect that most readers will even be willing to pay hardcover price to get the e-book during the initial release of the hardcover.

Let's not forget the author, who is generally paid a 15 percent royalty on the hardcover price, which on a $ 26 book works out to $ 3.90.

I was so disgusted with this that I left a lengthy comment on the Author's site and paid $ 2 more than the Amazon hardcover price (and $ 1 more than the Amazon e-book price) to get a used hardcover instead (and made it very clear in my comments that I had done so)

The Kindle price has since dropped below the hardcover price.

If there is only a hardcover available when I desperately feel the need to read the book I'm staring at, however, then I'll spend «hardcover price» for it on my Kindle.

But for Rector's other books, such as «The Cold Kiss,» published by Macmillan in 2010, the Kindle price is $ 11.99, higher than the $ 7.99 mass market paperback price and just slightly less than the $ 16.49 hardcover price (Amazon includes a disclaimed that the price was set by Macmillan).

After all, before the switch, Random House was the only large publisher still using the retail model (the same model used for printed books), where Random House received 50 % of the «list price,» which was often the same as the hardcover price, and Amazon could discount the e-book as much as they wanted without cutting into the royalty.

Guess Amazon doesn't realize they're part of Macmillan) and the rest were just $ 1.13 to $ 2.83 less than the hardcover price.

On the other hand, they had no Dorothy Sayers at all, and their price for new releases is often only a few dollars off the hardcover price.

Mr. Scalzi says: «Amazon's assumptions don't include, for example, that publishers and authors might have a legitimate reason for not wanting the gulf between eBook and physical hardcover pricing to be so large that brick and mortar retailers suffer, narrowing the number of venues into which books can sell.»

For about $ 10 more than the hardcover price, we should get the hardcover, eBook and audio versions together.

Amazon's assumptions don't include, for example, that publishers and authors might have a legitimate reason for not wanting the gulf between eBook and physical hardcover pricing to be so large that brick and mortar retailers suffer, narrowing the number of venues into which books can sell.

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

Ebooks (at best) are selling for less than 50 % of the hardcover price — often at 35 - 40 %.

The second price category is hardcover priced ebooks that cost anything from $ 12.99 to $ 20.

I'm never going to pay hardcover price for an ebook, nor will I ever ask someone to pay it for mine.

Now Apple's (s aapl) price bands — which would have stipulated that The Casual Vacancy ebook be priced at a maximum of $ 16.99, assuming a hardcover price of $ 35 — are no longer in effect.

Unless you delay the ebook to coincide with softcover, this is going to wreak havoc with hardcover pricing models.

There's also a shelf of exact replicas of J.D. Salinger's «The Catcher in the Rye» with two differences: Richard Prince is listed as the author and the hardcover price is doubled to $ 62.

Not exact matches

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!

THE STORYTELLER»S SECRET From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't Author: Carmine Gallo Review Issue Date: December 15, 2015 Online Publish Date: December 6, 2015 Publisher: St. Martin's Pages: 272 Price (Hardcover): $ 27.99...

The price of this hardcover book is very reasonable and affordable compared to some other options on the market today.

Addison has three hardcover copies of my book, The Open - Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole, to give away (cover price $ 29.95), one for each day of the interview.

Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Princeton University Press (April 6, 2015) Language: English ISBN - 10: 0691157057 ISBN - 13: 978 - 0691157054 PRICE: $ 18.50 (Amazon)

Discount: Receive 20 percent off the original price for items that can be used in the classroom, including most hardcover and paperback books, toys, and games.

And the $ 3.25 that Rich calculates that it costs to «print, store, and ship» on a «typical hardcover» is only 13 percent of that list price.

The 9 99 boycott tag, in particular, was created by Kindle e-book users to express their outrage that the prices of some e-books approach if not exceed the price of their hardcover versions.

Publishing a book means making strategic, and sometimes difficult, decisions around format (hardcover vs. paperback), Price (NEVER price a book to recoup your investment, price it to sell), trim size, title and subtPrice (NEVER price a book to recoup your investment, price it to sell), trim size, title and subtprice a book to recoup your investment, price it to sell), trim size, title and subtprice it to sell), trim size, title and subtitle.

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.

I totally understand the self publishing route choice, but should you be wooed by any of the large corporations and move to live in a cramped city and give up paradise, I for one, would pay the ridiculous prices to buy a hardcover as often as you produce them.

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.

Book publishers have traditionally sold hardcover books to retailers for about half their cover price and let the retailers discount as they wished.

By high pricing on ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive hardcover over to the ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as well.

When I look through the Kindle store and see ebooks priced higher than the paperback and hardcover, it seems to me that they are trying to push readers back to that more traditional medium.

The calculator instantly shows your book cost price for softcover or hardcover book printing, easily helping you to controll your budgeted book printing costs.

Hugh's advice for publishers is to eliminate things that annoy him (non-compete clauses, length - of - copyright licenses, New York City offices) and to lower prices, give away ebooks with hardcover purchases, and pay authors monthly.

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.

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