Sentences with phrase «interest in our hardcover»

Thanks for your interest in our hardcover publishing packages.

Not exact matches

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Their profit margins on hardcovers are bigger than paperbacks and ebooks, ergo it's in their interest to protect hardcover sales.

Their interest in doing a deal with Apple stemmed from a desire to maintain the existing favorable price structure for books, which allowed them to milk the market for high - priced hardcover versions of new novels before eventually releasing cheaper versions.

What many aspiring authors don't know is that (1) the shelf - life of new books in brick and mortar bookstores is 2 - 6 weeks; (2) traditional authors get 8 - 15 % royalties vs. 70 % royalties for those self - published; (3) almost 30 % of hardcover and paperbacks end up in landfills; (4) the timeframe between book contract to actual publication at traditional houses is 18 - 24 months; and (5) agents are rarely interested in authors who only have one book up their sleeves.

Especially since studies continue to show that teens — who led the move to MPGs and iPods from CD players — have little interest in e-readers and e-books, preferring paperbacks for portability and hardcovers for durability and the ability to physically relate to something they cherish and has emotional importance to them.

I find it interesting when literary agent Simon Lipskar chides readers that they «should feel guilty if they buy a Kindle edition versus a hardcover, but not versus a paperback, in terms of what the author gets.»

Hyperion, founded in 1991, publishes general - interest fiction and non-fiction hardcover, trade, and mass - market paperback books for adults and includes the Voice, ABC Daytime Press, Hyperion East, and Miramax imprints.

It was interesting watching Baen starting with when they included a CD in each hardcover.

In reality, many of the people who have switched to ebooks (such as myself in about 99.9 % of my reading) would not be terribly interested in paying $ 25.95 for an ebook, nor would it force them to run to the bookstore (or Amazon) to thus buy their favorite authors in hardcoveIn reality, many of the people who have switched to ebooks (such as myself in about 99.9 % of my reading) would not be terribly interested in paying $ 25.95 for an ebook, nor would it force them to run to the bookstore (or Amazon) to thus buy their favorite authors in hardcovein about 99.9 % of my reading) would not be terribly interested in paying $ 25.95 for an ebook, nor would it force them to run to the bookstore (or Amazon) to thus buy their favorite authors in hardcovein paying $ 25.95 for an ebook, nor would it force them to run to the bookstore (or Amazon) to thus buy their favorite authors in hardcovein hardcover.

It's just a reality that while readers will pay for the hardcover and initial e-books because they value getting the work right away, they don't have much interest in paying the author directly to hear the author speak.

«Berkley Books recently published my book in hardcover after Mark helped me get multiple agents interested in my work.

The interest in Hendricks has become so intense, copies of the catalogue from the Nasher Museum's 2008 retrospective of his work, Birth of Cool, are trading on Amazon for more than $ 1100 in hardcover and nearly $ 500 in paperback: