Sentences with phrase «hardcover sales»

Because they, the publishers, make more per unit on hardcover sales than they do with other sales per unit.

I * know * we're not the only ones, so even if hardcover sales have (or do) increase, they would have have increased far more without e-books.

This has not directly influenced hardcover sales, but trade paperback books are on the decline.

For some genres like SFF, selling into libraries can make up a significant portion of hardcover sales for new and midlist authors.

Less than one year after introducing the UK Kindle Store, Amazon.co.uk is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books, even as hardcover sales continue to grow.

According to the March Association of American Publishers (AAP) net sales revenue report (collecting data from 1,189 publishers), adult eBook sales were $ 282.3 million while adult hardcover sales counted $ 229.6 million during the first quarter of 2012.

Though Amazon has never shared hardware sales numbers, the company said this summer that its e-book sales have outpaced hardcover sales by 80 percent.

Only a few months later, in 2010, Amazon announced that Kindle e-book sales had surpassed hardcover sales for the month of July.

Cash flow issues completely dominate print publishing (the reasons are peculiar and too much to go into here) and the early money comes from hardcover sales.

Even more amazing is the fact that over the past month, presumably between mid-June and mid-July, Kindle Book sales have outpaced hardcover sales by 80 percent.

Given the growing affordability of e-readers as well as current book - buying trends — e-book sales surpassed hardcover sales in the U.S. for the first time in June, according to the Association of American Publishers — a bookless library makes a good deal of sense in the year 2013.

Hardcover sales rose 1.3 % to $ 5.06 billion.

Amazon's e-book sales already exceed hardcover sales and are on track to eclipse paperbacks this year.

Before agency pricing, publishers were concerned that releasing a cheaper e-book at the same time as a more expensive hardcover would cut into hardcover sales, and some chose to release a few months later — the way they would release paperbacks later.

But publishers want more money than they are getting from the new world of declining hardcover sales and they are pushing the Agency plan rather than being creative, making special editions and charging more for those, in a win - win situation.

These are certainly compelling numbers - particularly Kindle sales as compared with hardcover sales, a trend with first began to manifest itself last spring.

In other words, Macmillan will delay the release date of electronic editions (Kindle editions in particular) so that they don't cannibalize the more profitable hardcover sales.

According to numbers posted Friday on GalleyCat, sales from eBooks in the first quarter of 2012 topped 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.

We don't know if hardcover sales remained steady (as Nowell reported) because hardcover readers are hardcover readers and have sought out the hardcovers in various markets.

I'd suspect (and may have read at some point) that on top of this discounting there are different agreements with the publishers for kindle vs hardcover sales.

In last year's first quarter, hardcover sales accounted for -LSB-...]

February figures showed steeper declines in some print categories, with adult hardcover sales falling 43 per cent to $ 46.2 m and mass - market paperbacks down 41.5 per cent at $ 29.3 m.

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It was a big deal in 2009 when Kindle sales of The Lost Symbol outstripped Amazon's hardcover sales right from the drop, and a little over a year later Amazon announced that all Kindle editions were outselling hardcover units for the same titles, across the board.

Publishers saw this as «devaluing» their product (read this as «taking away hardcover sales») and, at the behest of Apple and it's new iPad, changed the way ebooks were sold.

So maybe delaying the paperback does not actually increase hardcover sales, but nobody even knows because nobody since has dared to try.

«As to dubious numbers I am not sure why $ 10 — $ 15 ebook sales increasing and $ 25 - $ 35 hardcover sales decreasing is a net growth!

April sales in the children's / young adult category fell 12.6 % with ebook sales plunging 51.6 % in the month and hardcover sales off 12.1 %.

Print books made a comeback, totaling $ 96.6 M for adult trade hardcover sales, $ 115.9 M for trade paperbacks, and $ 55.2 M for mass - market paperbacks.

If there is any change we are likely to see, at least from legacy publishers, it is that there will be even fewer mmpbs on the shelves now as they try to find more and more ways to push hardcover sales.

But it could be premature to determine that Kindle book sales have tripled vis a vis hardcover sales.

Publishers need to cover the costs of using new technology and potentially losing hardcover sales to lower - priced ebooks.

The higher prices have pissed off some e-book consumers, who also rankle at the fact that Preston's latest bestselling novel, Impact, was delayed in e-book format for four months to maximize hardcover sales.

We already know that Kindle Editions are outselling hardcovers by a significant percentage these days, even if you exclude free eBooks from consideration and don't exclude hardcover sales for books not available on the Kindle.

Publishers count on hardcover sales to recoup a large part of their production costs.