Kobo Aura HD was designed to fit perfectly in your hand,
just as a hardcover does, for a truly immersive reading experience.
Not exact matches
By high pricing on ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive
hardcover over to the ebook market, and not
just for the book in question but for future purchases
as well.
Our unique publishing process makes it possible to publish your work
as a Paperback,
Hardcover and eBook in
just one single step.
Once essentially no more than a museum of great works, libraries in the 21st century have had to reinvent themselves
as a community - based center of learning and production, not
just a place to put your name on the list for the latest James Patterson
hardcover.
But
as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the
hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced
just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.
Update:
Just got word from Lewis» publisher that the ebook version (including Kindle) will be available the same day
as the
hardcover.
The 6 light model is quite a bit brighter,
as you would expect, but the 3 light variety works
just as well for ebook reading; both are designed to cover 2
hardcover or paperback book pages.
Just as ebook revenue exceeds that of
hardcovers?
The book is published by Random imprint Doubleday, which means that Amazon controls price and discounting in the Kindle Store
just as brick - and - mortar booksellers control price and discounting for the
hardcover edition.
Just a note: I don't buy a
hardcover book for «how it looks on the shelf», but instead partially because of durability / hardiness and how it feels in my hands
as compared to a paperback.
IngramSpark supports
hardcovers, paperbacks and ebooks and uploading a print book and an ebook into your account at the same time costs the same amount
as just uploading a print book alone.
I
just bought a
hardcover of Stephen Pinker's latest book because it was about the same price
as an ebook; I would have bought through Kobo if Kobo offered the right price point (they didn't, but Indigo sure did).
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.
Allowing publishers to charge the same price for digital editions
as they do for new
hardcover books is
just wrong.
This leaves us mostly with paperbacks and
hardcover books, both of which, according to a Guardian article, are suffering «dramatically» (I don't see a 6 % decline in paperback sales during a recession
as dramatic, but that may
just be me).
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).
Just as, with a paperback, you pay less than for a
hardcover but get a less durable book.
Just as you would need a separate ISBN for a paperback version of the book and a
hardcover version of the book, so too will you need a separate ISBN for an ebook.
So I probably will still get access, one way or another, or I'll
just have to save up for the hard copy or wait for sales (down the line, there will be sales on some things
as there already are for
hardcover books, no doubt).
Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.'s collected edition of Kick - Ass was the best - selling graphic novel for the month of April
as the Kick - Ass Premiere
Hardcover topped the sales chart for the second month in a row, its sales fueled by the
just - released film adaptation from X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn.
Related reading: Deirdre Donahue at USA Today reports that Fifty Shades of Grey gets its
hardcover publication on January 29 --»
just in time for Valentine's Day,»
as Donahue puts it.
Tellingly, Emma Straub, the author of the Modern Lovers, (PRH / Riverhead), which
just debuted at # 14 on the NYT
Hardcover Fiction list, recently told that paper that she set her book in the Ditmas Park section of Brooklyn, because she «wanted to stay
as far away from the quote - unquote Brooklyn book
as I could,» a fine distinction to those who are» t familiar with the differences of Brooklyn real estate.
Never mind that publishers have been selling
hardcovers just as long
as they've been selling paperbacks at different prices and nobody freaked out about it ever.
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.)
So if you're publishing in
hardcover, paperback, ePub, Kindle, and PDF, you'd need at least four, and if you're getting those four, you might
as well get one for the Kindle edition
just to help you track information about the books consistently.
The DODOcase
HARDcover provides the familiarity of a book, adds the protection of a cover, and the utility of being able to hold one - handed
just as you would when reading a traditional novel.
It makes the value proposition that much better,
as anyone who reads more than
just occasionally can almost certainly recoup the cost of the device through the fact that e-books are generally less expensive than
hardcovers or paperbacks — and many great, classic e-books are free.
When it says
just «
Hardcover,» it means a standard hardcover, as opposed to a specialty binding like library
Hardcover,» it means a standard
hardcover, as opposed to a specialty binding like library
hardcover,
as opposed to a specialty binding like library binding.
1 cassette or CD, sold separately or with
hardcover book Amidst roars, sighs and kisses, these well - behaved dinosaurs say good night and go to bed,
just as they should!
I was at that debate, Don, and Mike Crichton «s performance prevailed not
just because he could act — he was a screenwriter after all, but because besides practicing his act before a critical CalTech audience, he was studying environmental law
as part of his due diligence for State of Fear — John Gresham made for serious
hardcover competition in those days.