Sentences with phrase «higher than print books»

And for pricing ebooks higher than print books to try and protect the decreasing market share of the print industry.

So the question is, is an ebook priced higher than a print book due to Big 5 setting their ebook prices substantively higher than what was set by the market (okay, fine, by Amazon, mostly) or is it due to Amazon's standard discounting practices?

They want the ebook price for a title to be higher than the print book.

Last year I saw several of my clients» debut novels come out with an ebook price that was higher than the print book price.

Not exact matches

Comey's book, «A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership» is already looking like a best - seller, with publisher Macmillan ordering an initial print run of 850,000 copies, more than five times the 150,000 in the initial pressing for Michael Wolff's «Fire and Fury.»

Some of the machines take less than five minutes to download the book file, print, and bind with a high quality, gloss, paperback cover.

You are more than likely looking at buying copies of that book at $ 9 / book, $ 3 / book higher than if you had printed them yourself as a self publisher.

But that's nothing compared to the head - scratching that the EU's highest court has caused when they upheld the ruling this week that ebooks were not books, and therefore would be taxed at a higher VAT rate than their print counterparts.

For full - color or illustrated books, offset printing will deliver perceptibly higher quality than POD.

On top of this Amazon apparently demands a higher discount from retail prices on eBooks than it does on printed books.

Finally, once you factor in the wildly varying rates of value added tax (VAT)- — which are typically much higher on e-books (which are considered software) than print books (which are not)- — then you have even more of an emerging quagmire.

We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly - we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,» said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com.

That may change as more so - called digital natives progress into higher education and as ebook reader technology gets better, but for now, 60 % of students would rather pay for a low - cost printed book than use a free digital version.

With the incredible tools available through digital publishing, the cost to purchase and give away the ebook for the individuals who fund raised could have been negligible compared to the cost of a print edition (note: unfortunately, the publisher has set the ebook edition price of this title at $ 9.99, higher than the $ 8.52 per print copy that the protest organizers spent through Rediscovered Books).

We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly — we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,» according to Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos.

With more than 12 million books in print, rights sold in almost forty countries, and more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list (reaching as high as # 1), P.C. Cast and Kristin...

After all, it offers the highest percentage royalty, and eBooks are usually priced lower than print books, which appeals to readers who might not want to drop $ 15 on an author they've never heard of.

If you're prepared to take the omnimegahyperconglomerate (or whatever) at its word, however, then for every 100 print books it has sold so far in 2012 in the UK, 114 of its paid - for e-books have been downloaded (and if you're really, really bad at maths, that means that e-book sales are 14 % higher than print sales).

Yes, POD does normally carry with it a slightly higher cost per book to print, but because authors are printing only the books they need and profiting from their books directly without sharing a huge cut with publishers, that cost is more than offset (see what I did there?).

The downside to this technology is that it is based off a quantity of one, which makes the price per book higher than a print run of 100, 500, 1,000, or more.

«We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly — we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,» he said.

Now that the Publisher Defendants control the retail prices of e-books — but Amazon maintains control of its print book retail prices — Publisher Defendants» e-book prices sometimes are higher than Amazon's prices for print versions of the same titles.

That's because of the really high ebooks prices which are, at least for the popular ones, rarely a dollar cheaper than print books.

Most trad published e-books are priced so high (often as high if not more than the printed book) that they are pricing themselves out of the competition.

But traditionally - published print books carry higher average list prices than traditionally - published e-books.

The company, which was the first major retailer to offer a multi-channel textbook rental program, announced it has expanded that highly successful program to nearly all of its Barnes & Noble College campus bookstores this semester, offering significant savings of more than 50 percent over a new printed book for millions of higher education students and their families.

And my Audiobooks and Print book income was higher than ebooks.

Fowlie was speaking to the fact that audiobooks continue to have a much higher price point than both ebooks and print books, and that audiobooks tend to sell well given the low volume of content available to audiobook fans.

When print - on - demand was first introduced, the the unit cost (the cost per book) of printing just one book at a time was far higher with print - on - demand than it was for a print run of thousands.

Just as children's print books are costly to produce and therefore come at a higher price than most adult books, children's interactive app books require an entire team of programmers and designers, let alone the author who had to write the story in the first place.

From what I've heard from textbook publishers, digital editions are NOT going to be cheaper than print counterparts (unlike with trade books, for example) because the high cost of the textbook is supposedly in the paying of the authors.

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Bestsellers have a far higher profit margin because of the set costs such as staff and overhead are factored over a lot more books than a 5,000 copy print run of a small book.

Amazon has never said precisely how many Kindle e-readers it has sold, but its higher sales of e-books than print books indicates it's a strong performer.

It demonstrates that at present royalty rates, publishers benefit from higher margins on ebooks while authors receive less income than on the sale of a printed book.

The physical nature of print books means that they will always be priced higher than ebooks.

Be generous, and remember that material printed in a book will be held to a higher standard of accuracy than your daily blog post.

Small presses, which use print - on - demand technology rather than cheap offset printing, can not afford to place your book in bookstores (because they have to pay for the high - priced ones that don't sell as well as the ones that do).

The cost per book for PoD is also going down, a few years ago, the PoD printing cost was higher than the retail cost of an offset print book, then it dropped so it was lower than the retail cost of a similar sized book, but without sufficient margin to allow you to sell to bookstores at 50 % list price (let alone deal with the returns).

I'm not willing to pay higher than the cheapest version of a print book available.

My sales for my e-books are much higher than for my print books, and most of my reviews come from my e-books.

When a vanity press tells you that they will print your book on demand (POD) and pay you higher royalties than a conventional publisher, they don't tell you that the average book sells fewer than 100 copies.

We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly - we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years.»

«Setting a price for a Kindle book that is higher than its print counterpart makes no sense,» said Russ Grandinetti, the vice president of Kindle content for Amazon, to the New York Times.

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse / Solutions (known to many as publishing predators); or any of the pay to publish operations that claim to offer different types of packages / templates for the author to select from as well as claiming to do more personalization and hand - holding than a vanity press operation; to Amazon's CreateSpace and the Ingram Spark (higher quality); to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it (always recommended).

There are legitimate reasons for this, and attempts by publishers to price e-books at or near print prices have alienated potential customers and probably hurt sales — I know I have passed on a book more than once when I saw that the Kindle edition was priced higher than print.

True printing / shipping / warehousing / return costs are higher for print books than given by HC as well.

The precede also flags the «ebook - as - digital - service» problem in which some places tax ebooks at a higher rate than print books as software - like services, «thus stunting the growth of the ebook market,» IPA writes, «especially in smaller language markets.

Keep in mind that (a) not all printed books currently make sense as e-books (children's books, cookbooks, picture books, etc.), (b) not all books that do make sense have been released in e-book format yet, and (c) that e-books generally sell for less than printed books, so 8 % of revenue would mean a higher percentage of unit sales.

He finds that the German customer is prepared to pay higher prices (of course this doesn't mean that Germans don't expect to pay less for an e-book than they would for a printed book, due to fixed price laws.)