Sentences with phrase «higher than a hardcover»

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.

But this is the first time that an e-book has been priced higher than a hardcover.

It irks me when I see a Kindle book priced higher than its hardcover or paperback equivalent.

Not exact matches

Hillary Clinton's new book debuted to higher sales than any nonfiction hardcover since 2012, selling over 300,000 copies (including digital sales) in its first week, though that's not quite as high as her first book.

It comes with an amazing, high - def presentation of the film — the only one in the series that I have seen more than once — and tons of goodies, like character cards, a hardcover photo book, and two discs worth of extras.

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.

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

The discounts are, of course, far higher than the usual 40 % -50 % range offered by Amazon, warehouse clubs and other discounters — including Overstock — and are more typical for remainders than frontlist hardcovers.

Hmm, going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good ebook price being 75 % of the paper version, I wonder if some of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or trade paperback version rather than the mass paperback format.

This week's Question of the Week is «Would you buy an e-book if it was priced higher than the paperback or hardcover?

Workbooks are wonderful because they often have a higher perceived value than even a standard hardcover or paperback book.

Most hardcovers or new release paperbacks are higher than that.

(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 ranges)

My argument is that when eBooks are done right they so much cheaper than physical books (40 - 50 % cheaper) that if they were reasonably priced they'd turn hardcovers into high - end items.

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).

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For the first time, two e-books have been priced higher on Amazon than their hardcover counterparts, according to The New York Times, which broke the story Tuesday morning.

In an attempt to spur mainstream adoption of its e-reader, the Kindle, (and to fend off the growing number of competitors in the e-reader, digital book, and tablet market) Amazon reduced the e-reader price by more than half and established a policy of capping off e-book prices at $ 9.99, which publishers criticized, arguing that the low prices of e-books would cannibalize sales of higher priced hardcover books.

While the introduction of competing platforms, and an uprising among publishers has led to more variable, and slightly higher pricing of e-books, in general they are still cheaper than the printed equivalent — whether hardcover or paperback.

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.

A book priced at $ 27.99 would likely be a hardcover, and authors typically earn a higher royalty rate (2 points higher) on hardcover than they do on a paperback.

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.)

In pursuit of justification to charge a higher price for e-books than, say, $ 9.99 — perhaps even as much for an e-book as a hardcover — there has been much discussion of possibility of producing «enhanced» e-books.

Here's more from the report (Q1 2012 chart embedded above): «In Q1 2012, net sales revenue for eBooks was higher than that for Hardcover; this represents a switch of positions in the category vs Q1 2011.