Sentences with phrase «hardcover sales for»

Ebooks are difficult to configure, release, and store, — but lately, «hardcover» releases on Kindle Fire outsold brick and mortar hardcover sales for the same books.

Hardcover sales for the first quarter of this year were reported at $ 229.6 million, up from $ 223 million for first quarter 2011.

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

Not exact matches

Make your shop known for something - a specific category (or two) of books, having some first editions for sale, all paperbacks a dollar and all hardcovers two bucks, and / or a swap program.

In July, online bookseller Amazon.com announced that quarterly sales of e-books for the company's popular Kindle e-reader had exceeded those of hardcovers for the first time.

I am in the US and am wondering — will there be a hardcover over here for sale through Amazon in the US?

After being unavailable for sale through retailers for years, the hardcover book is now back in print!

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.

The value you use for total revenue would have to take account of the loses in hardcover (and paperback) sales as well.

Her sci - fi novel The Host wasn't a big jump from the teen fantasy she is known for, yet it still sold just 2 million copies in hardcover (yes, an impressive figure, but the fourth Twilight novel, by comparison, sold 1.3 million copies on its first day of sale!).

According to a recent survey by Nielsen Books, eBook sales made up 23 % of unit sales for the first six months of 2014, while hardcover's accounted for 25 % and paperbacks 42 %.

Making it even more difficult, I use print - on - demand (POD) printers for my paperback and hardcover books, which means that I don't have a stock of books available for sale.

I do not count on my ebook sales for my main income from children's books, My paperbacks and hardcover do better.

As for hardcover sales, Amazon said it sees continued growth in that segment.

For our Special Evening with Paula McLain, attendees will receive a copy of her new hardcover, LOVE AND RUIN, a day before on sale!

Early in the week we heard the Borders chain has finally shuffled off its mortal coil, and on Thursday, Publishers Lunch reported book sales suffered another huge monthly drop — especially for adult hardcover and mass market paperbacks.

Yet for the first time, ebook sales have exceeded hardcover sales; first quarter (2012) ebook sales were $ 282 million compared to $ 230 million for hardcover books.

According to Nielsen's survey, ebooks constituted only 23 percent of unit sales for the first six months of the year, while hardcovers made up 25 percent and paperback 42 percent of sales.

Online retail giant Amazon said Monday that sales of electronic books for the Kindle have overtaken hardcover book sales.

Since book sales for hardcovers and paperbacks still outsell eBooks, it's important not to put all of your eggs in one basket.

Incidentally, hardcovers make great shelfies, and we think you should watch for a continued rise in hardcover book sales alongside paperbacks and ebooks.

But Macmillan and other publishers have criticized Amazon for charging just $ 9.99 for best - selling e-books on its Kindle e-reader, a price publishers say is too low and could hurt sales of higher priced hardcovers.

Even allowing for the effects of Border's, across all three formats — ebooks, hardcover print, and paperback print — children's and YA books just seemed to have had a far better year for sales in 2012.

According to a new report by Nielsen paperback sales accounted for 42 % of all book sales, followed by hardcovers with 25 % and finally eBooks with a paltry 23 %.

Hardcover sales in adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebooHardcover sales in adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and eboohardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and eboohardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebook - only.

Tellingly, ebooks for young adults and children shot up 233 percent, and this shouldn't surprise anybody (by comparison, adult hardcover book sales were up, slightly, 2.7 percent).

The book debuted at # 10 on the New York Times Hardcover Non-fiction Best Sellers list during its first week on sale, remained on the main list for 3 weeks, and continued on the extended list for 4 more weeks.

Since the release of the Kindle two years ago, Amazon has sold digital versions of hardcover new releases and bestsellers for 9.99 dollars, a move primarily aimed at driving sales of the online retail giant's e-reader.

Be sure to check out the free eBook, Marketing Your Book for Holiday Sales, and sign up for your free First Edition Hardcover.

Secondly, and an important consideration for you as you work through the steps in our free eBook, Marketing Your Book for Holiday Sales, most of the gifted books will be hardcovers.

A little while ago Amazon was crowing because ebook sales for the Kindle were more than doubling hardcover and then paperback sales on the site.

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.

«How I came to love the Price Fixers» — with their sweet talking about a bigger cut for all while the largest cut is in availability and attractiveness of the e-book and dreams of hardcover sales rising from the dust.

For new releases in hardcover the eBook is cheaper, but that is not the majority of sales.

At the present time, traditionally published authors still only receive the standard 15 % royalty, identical to what they would earn on hardcover sales; the chairman explained the historical rationale for the 15 % paid out to authors, which was based on the assumption that the cost of producing the physical book was about 70 % of the sales price and the remaining 30 % was to be split equally between the author and the publisher.

Published by Ballantine Books Also in hardcover & ebook Another twelve - year - old is front and center in this novel about a world where everything is for sale.

The AAP is beefing up its monthly reports with data from many more publishers — 1,149 for January 2012 compared to under 100 in past months — and more detailed reporting on specific genres: Children's / young adult e-book sales are now broken out and religious book sales are divided by hardcover, paperback and e-books.

In the United States, hardcover sales alone were 300,000 copies for «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» — which was only released in the U.S. in September of 2008 — and the trilogy has sold nearly 17 million copies.

They also say you need to study carefully the details of each company's contracts; some charge very high markups for printing hardcover and paperback books, offer a lower share of the sales or make it difficult and expensive to leave a self - publishing company if you become dissatisfied.

The date was precisely the 19th of July 2010 when the world had first seen sales of digital books at Amazon taking over hardcover books for the first time in its history.

In the first quarter of 2012 hardcover books accounted for $ 229 million dollars in sales whereas ebooks... [Read more...]

You can publish a paperback with an ISBN for distribution, a non-ISBN paperback version to sell specifically on Lulu and your author site, an ebook for sale on all platforms, a dust jacket hardcover you can sell either through distribution with an ISBN or solely on Lulu depending on demand for hardcover, and on top of all of this, you can always create a unique version to sell by hand at an event, perhaps featuring a special foreword, bonus chapter, or teaser for another book still in the works.

Each title has the on - sale date for trade paperback or hardcover, and the audio on - sale date.

In July 2010, Amazon announced that sales of electronic books for its Kindle e-book reader surpassed sales of hardcover books on the site.

Ebooks are now THE dominant sales format for adult fiction; bigger than hardcover, bigger than paperback.

As of September, hardcover sales had declined 25 % for the year.

So I probably will still get access, one way or another, or I'll just have to save up for the hard copy or wait for sales (down the line, there will be sales on some things as there already are for hardcover books, no doubt).

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

This list from NPD BookScan, ranked by unit sales, is based on monthly point - of - sale data for hardcover and paperback books from approximately 16,000 retail, mass merchant and non-traditional outlets.

Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.'s collected edition of Kick - Ass, their creator - owned mini-series from Marvel Comics» Icon imprint, was the best - selling graphic novel for the month of March with the Kick - Ass Premiere Hardcover, customer interest and sales fueled by the forthcoming film adaptation from Stardust director Matthew Vaughn.