The judges curate and select the best new
hardcover titles for members from a broad range of genres and offer a mix of both fiction and nonfiction titles, sure to impress even the pickiest and hard to shop for Moms.
Not exact matches
Two months before the book's Oct. 24 release date, PublicAffairs had «racked up the kinds of pre-orders in
hardcover, e-book and downloadable audio that Hachette usually sees
for anticipated franchise fiction releases, not serious history
titles.»
With capabilities to highlight text and take notes within each ebook, eCampus offers more than 100,000 digital
titles, as well as
hardcover texts
for purchase or rent.
This bi-annually updated catalogue lists Image Comics» classic
titles for kids through teens, in trade and
hardcover formats.
For those looking for more specifics, the following might be helpful: Young - adult and upper - level middle - grade novels in all subgenres; Big crossover novels with one foot squarely in genre (Wool, The Night Circus, Gone Girl); Literary commercial novels (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, The Art of Racing in the Rain); Upmarket women's fiction (Keepsake, My Sister's Keeper, Still Alice); Single - title romance (historicals especially)(Ravishing The Heiress, The Ugly Duchess, The Heir); Lead title or hardcover science fiction and fantasy (Soulless, Game of Thrones, Old Man's Wa
For those looking
for more specifics, the following might be helpful: Young - adult and upper - level middle - grade novels in all subgenres; Big crossover novels with one foot squarely in genre (Wool, The Night Circus, Gone Girl); Literary commercial novels (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, The Art of Racing in the Rain); Upmarket women's fiction (Keepsake, My Sister's Keeper, Still Alice); Single - title romance (historicals especially)(Ravishing The Heiress, The Ugly Duchess, The Heir); Lead title or hardcover science fiction and fantasy (Soulless, Game of Thrones, Old Man's Wa
for more specifics, the following might be helpful: Young - adult and upper - level middle - grade novels in all subgenres; Big crossover novels with one foot squarely in genre (Wool, The Night Circus, Gone Girl); Literary commercial novels (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, The Art of Racing in the Rain); Upmarket women's fiction (Keepsake, My Sister's Keeper, Still Alice); Single -
title romance (historicals especially)(Ravishing The Heiress, The Ugly Duchess, The Heir); Lead
title or
hardcover science fiction and fantasy (Soulless, Game of Thrones, Old Man's War).
She is currently looking
for literary commercial novels, big crossover novels with one foot squarely in genre, upmarket women's fiction, lead
title or
hardcover science fiction and fantasy, single -
title romance (with a special passion
for historicals), and young adult and upper - level middle grade novels.
This goes a little against the grain of an industry that
for a long time has released new
titles — especially expected bestsellers — first in
hardcover, then paperback, then audio, then any other possible options.
I find that people, in general, are happy to pay $ 7.99 at my store even though they could «get it at Wal - Mart cheeper» but very few will shell out $ 25 +
for a
hardcover (unless it's to add to a special collection or if the
title is nonfiction).
If you plan to publish a
hardcover and a paperback edition of the same
title, you will need separate ISBNs
for each.
The Jan. 25 New York Times best seller lists are studded with new
titles, but the real surprise is a book that has already been on the
hardcover fiction list
for 36 weeks.
Most debut fiction
titles first appear on bookstore shelves as a cloth bound
hardcover with a dust jacket — likewise
for debut
titles in the history, biography, science, and social studies genres.
The Amazon - led $ 9.99 retail price point
for the most popular e-books troubled the Publisher Defendants because, at $ 9.99, most of these e-book
titles were priced substantially lower than
hardcover versions of the same
title.
This
title had only been available as an expensive
hardcover for over a year.
The final version of the pricing tiers in the Apple Agency Agreements contained the $ 12.99 and $ 14.99 price points
for bestsellers, discussed earlier, and also established prices
for all other newly released
titles based on the
hardcover list price of the same
title.
Therefore, the trend with paperbacks — which used to mean sometimes as much as a year or more following the release of the
title in
hardcover — is to decrease the amount of time it takes
for a
title to reach the trade paperback consumer.
Independent booksellers were all abuzz over Water
for Elephants when it came out in
hardcover last year, and in early 2007 voted it the No. 1 Book Sense
title of 2006.
For every 100
hardcover titles sold by Amazon over the past three months, it has dispatched 180 Electronic Books.
They can also purchase
hardcovers (up to 10 copies of each
title)
for $ 9.99 or less.
When customers visit a physical Barnes & Noble store and purchase Patterson's Kill Alex Cross in
hardcover, plus any other Patterson
title for children or adults in any format, they will receive a Patterson novella, Merry Christmas, Alex Cross — exclusive to Barnes & Noble.
(
For example, note that the suggested physical retail price for the Robert Massie title being cited in some literary blogs is $ 35, higher than most hardcovers, so its corresponding library e-price is higher than the aforesaid price rang
For example, note that the suggested physical retail price
for the Robert Massie title being cited in some literary blogs is $ 35, higher than most hardcovers, so its corresponding library e-price is higher than the aforesaid price rang
for the Robert Massie
title being cited in some literary blogs is $ 35, higher than most
hardcovers, so its corresponding library e-price is higher than the aforesaid price ranges)
Algonquin Books» e-book bundling promotion
for Hillary Jordan's much - anticipated new
title, When She Woke, gives customers who purchase the book in
hardcover a code to download a free e-book version.
IngramSpark is not so bad
for print
titles, and makes it easy to offer
hardcover books, but the ebook distribution is not a good deal.
If you intend to publish your book in multiple formats (meaning perhaps a
hardcover version, a paperback version, and an ebook version of the same
title), you will need individual ISBNs
for each version, in which case, buying a block of ten ISBNs is a much better value.
For the most part, RH prices to library wholesalers for titles available in print as new hardcovers are now set in the range of $ 65 - $
For the most part, RH prices to library wholesalers
for titles available in print as new hardcovers are now set in the range of $ 65 - $
for titles available in print as new
hardcovers are now set in the range of $ 65 - $ 85.
Now, Random House will be releasing a
hardcover edition of seven «lost» Seuss
titles, that is, stories he wrote
for publication in Redbook magazine in the early 1950s, well before the publication of some of his widely known and favorite
titles.
Song Reader by Beck Hansen, which retails on Amazon
for just over $ 22
for the
hardcover, is available on eBay through Roxy Media UK's storefront
for over $ 40; other third party vendors on Amazon such as Any Book and Murray Media sell the same
title for as much as $ 124.
Her new book about the life and legend of Rin Tin Tin is available
for preorder on Kindle, as is a Kindle
title previously available in
hardcover and paperback, The Orchid Thief.
Apple is asking publishers to set two e-book price points
for hardcover best sellers: $ 12.99 and $ 14.99, with fewer
titles offered at $ 9.99.
Each
title has the on - sale date
for trade paperback or
hardcover, and the audio on - sale date.
I have not yet opened the channels
for either version to appear on Amazon, but I wonder if I DO decide to add the
hardcover version to Amazon in the future with the paperback, I fear the two books (even though identical) will have the two DIFFERENT
titles in an Amazon search.
Whether a project is slated
for release in
hardcover, paperback or an electronic medium, its «look» must conform to the standards and specifications that have been set by the company
for its existing
titles.
I had hoped that US publishing would follow the UK model, with fewer
hardcovers of a
title in print — mostly
for libraries and collectors — with the greater majority of the
title coming out in trade paper.
Take,
for instance, last week's New York Times graphic books list — its formula is as mysterious as the cause of the zombie outbreak — where collected editions of The Walking Dead accounted
for three of the 10
hardcover titles and four of the 10 paperback
titles.
Typically, prices
for new
titles range from around $ 26, or the same as a
hardcover, to the discounted $ 9.99 that Amazon charges
for most of its Kindle
titles.
In the digital world, in 2010 we've seen a proliferation of available e-book
titles (the Amazon store roughly doubled its catalogue to over 750,000 e-books), e-books starting a global expansion (including the launch of the Amazon UK Kindle Store), and we've even seen e-book sales on Amazon overtake
hardcovers and overtake all print books
for best - selling
titles.
The company noted that it has sold three ebooks
for every
hardcover title and that ebooks are even outselling paperbacks (Amazon notes that it sells 115 ebooks to every 100 paperbacks).
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.
Grandinetti and other Amazon spokespersons said repeatedly last week that Kindle editions were currently outselling Amazon sales of their
hardcover counterparts by a 3 - to - 1 margin, which means that Amazon
hardcovers equal about 25 per cent of combined sales
for these
titles.
I don't believe people who were routinely reading lots of frontlist
titles have suddenly forsaken
hardcovers for self - published books.
For instance, to purchase a newer
title that is available in print as a
hardcover will now cost a library anywhere from $ 65 - $ 85, while
titles available as paperbacks will generally be in the $ 25 - $ 50 range.18
Of course, there can also be lengthy waits
for hardcover and paperback books, although those waits are usually
for current bestsellers while older
titles are generally available.
**** Borders romance buyer, Sue Grimshaw, will be the new Editor at Large and Category Specialist
for Random House acquiring «selective romance
titles for hardcover, paperback and original digital lists».
Sandow will talk about his project American Qur» an, which will soon be published in full in an upcoming eponymously
titled hardcover book and shown
for the first time in its entirety at the Orange County Museum of Art.