Until quite recently it was a solid, slow moving «book - discipline,» an academic discipline in which most of the important material was
published in hardcover books.
If you are targeting the library market, having your
book in hardcover makes life easier for your local librarian.
Which mean that returns were higher in mass - market - friendly genres like romance and lower in genres like literary / mainstream that were mostly issued
only in hardcover.
Considering the difficulty of getting anything published, let alone earn decent money
in hardcover edition, I feel lucky.
They take what should be 5,000 words and pump it up to 50,000 so they can
print in hardcover.
But for a new release, you might display the hardcover on your website's homepage, since new releases tend to
appear in hardcover first in bookstores.
It's common to find the newest bestsellers showing up on bookstore
shelves in hardcover, and some months later in paperback, and later still in the even more economical trade paperback.
You might commonly see this book binding style in paperback novels however it is also
used in hardcover books.
I started to look at my buying patterns and noticed that I now exclusively purchase pulp reads on my e-reader and more essential type reads
in hardcover form.
Although if you do not have an e-reader or tablet, all of the books we mention are available
in hardcover on the dates listed.
It came out
originally in hardcover, followed by a paperback version last year, and, per my publisher, will soon be available as an audiobook.
Not to diminish the value of a paperback, when it comes to somebody
investing in a hardcover, it's something you want to keep.
I first picked up the book a few years
ago in hardcover and thought it was extremely useful then as really the only somewhat reliable source of early church history.
My understanding about the kindle pricing is that amazon actually takes a hit to mark certain kindle books (that are otherwise
still in hardcover) down to 9.99 as marketing for the kindle.
Even in hardcover, you can have a cloth - printed look to your hardcover book with a jacket on it.
In traditional publishing, the question of printing a book
in hardcover vs paperback was fairly straightforward.
I would love to win this e-reader, I have many ebooks I'd love to read that I can not
find in hardcover!
There were hardly any cozy mysteries, and not a lot of relatively recent
fantasy in hardcover or trade.
It's true that new books released
in hardcover usually cost less in e-book format than bound copies do.
These large font titles are really expensive too, often costing two or three times that of a paperback and they are normally just
available in hardcover.
For example, a lot of books from authors whose work I enjoy come
out in hardcover first.
Not only can you purchase them in your pajamas, but they are more economical viable than new releases that come out
only in hardcover.
Unless you have a gift book, coffee table book and / or an incredibly compelling reason to publish a
book in hardcover, do not do it.
Young Jane Young: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin (Algonquin Books, 9781616208691, $ 15.95) Recommended
in hardcover by Annie Jones, The Bookshelf, Thomasville, GA
The book received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly («a stellar debut») and Library Journal («totally engrossing») and, at the time that the pseudonym was revealed had sold perhaps 1500 copies
in hardcover in the UK and 500 in the USA.
UPDATE: Just after recording the episode, I checked Amazon for Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, and it's now available
in hardcover for $ 13.46.