Sentences with phrase «less than a hardcover»

«Amazon keeps promoting the idea that an eBook should cost much, much less than a hardcover because the cost of producing it is so much lower.

Simon & Schuster License: Expires after one year, then must repurchase (experimenting with 2 yr term for 1.5 x price) Prices: Generally more than consumer cost, but less than hardcover

That means that Penguin Publishing is selling Ms. Krentz's ebook for only $ 2.27 less than the hardcover edition.

Guess Amazon doesn't realize they're part of Macmillan) and the rest were just $ 1.13 to $ 2.83 less than the hardcover price.

The general sentiment of commenters is that if a customer pays $ 359 for a Kindle 2, the books should be substantially less than the hardcover or even the paperback cost.

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 lot of people like discounts, sure, particularly on bestsellers — which is why the fact that an e-book is less than a hardcover does well.

Well, at least the kindle version now costs less than the hardcover, which is proving ever more rare these days.

My husband, he just bought the new John Sandford e-book, for slightly less than the hardcover — felt it was a good value because he wanted it.

New York Times bestsellers and most new releases are $ 9.99, much less than the hardcover editions that run about $ 25.

A small paperback novel with no interior color will cost less than a hardcover book with a full - color interior and a dust jacket.

In one case the ebook price on Amazon is only $ 4 less than the hardcover.

Not exact matches

From start to finish, I probably spent less than ten thousand dollars for three formats: a hardcover, a paperback, and a Kindle version.

If you don't want to pay the 28.00 for a hardcover, wait a few months for the paperback to come out, and it often will cost LESS than the e-book.

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.

The heart of the matter was that it was so much less than $ 28, the average price of a new hardcover book.

New best - selling titles often cost less as e-books than as hardcovers.

Ebook prices usually trend much less than soft or hardcover alternatives, so if you have an ebook version, it is often (but not always) priced less than a physical... [Read more...]

He read Swimming and loved it, and agreed to reissue it in formats that are much less expensive to produce and sell than a hardcover edition.

They'd be much more likely to adopt Amazon's Kindle ereaders if they thought they could find new books for much less than they could by 1) buying Amazon's own hardcovers or 2) shopping at the local bookseller (think retail discounter and current ebook competitor Barnes and Noble).

Ebook prices usually trend much less than soft or hardcover alternatives, so if you have an ebook version, it is often (but not always) priced less than a physical book.

They tend to read really fast and a lot of books, so because the eBook tends to be a little less expensive than the actual paperback or hardcover of the book, they can actually consume the content at a faster rate and you know get their fill of all their favorite authors.

So why exactly do so many e-book readers think that they are entitled to an e-book edition in their preferred format at the same time as the hardcover for less than half the price?

«For less than the average price of one hardcover bestseller, we've made the best digital library in the world available to every corner of India.

This creates an environment where most new hardcovers cost less than the e-book on the day it comes out and when the paperback edition is eventually released the price is normally halved, while the e-book price will never change.

I had an interesting experience this week: I just bought a brand - new hardcover novel for less than I would have paid for the ebook.

The BookStats study shows that hardcover sales rose 6 % last year; trade paperbacks dropped less than 1 %.

If you had asked included «ebooks should cost the same as hardcovers» and «ebooks should cost the same as paperbacks» and «ebooks should cost less than paperbacks», I think you would have gotten more specific, useful data about what book buyers think regarding ebook prices.

But I expect to pay less for an ebook than a hardcover, and so do most people.

* No more than a few weeks after a hardcover hits print, used copies show up on Amazon for less than the discounted Amazon price.

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.

I look for them now first on the Kindle.I'm willing to pay whatever they cost since I would have bought the book in whatever format but it's nice when it costs less than a traditional hardcover.

Less than one year after introducing the UK Kindle Store, Amazon.co.uk is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books, even as hardcover sales continue to grow.

In a sign of how the world has changed in the last decade, Amazon announced today that less than four years after introducing digital books, Amazon.com customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than all print books — hardcover and paperback — combined.

Still, many self - publishing companies allow authors to take more than the traditional royalty of 15 percent of the cover price on hardcovers and 10 percent or less on paperbacks.

3) because of the lower price, everyone in the pipeline, from author to agent, publisher and retailer makes less than if the book were published in hardcover

It's hard to justify holding out for the brass ring of a book contract when the typical hardcover will earn the author far less than each ebook independently released.Continue Reading

It's true that new books released in hardcover usually cost less in e-book format than bound copies do.

Another, perhaps more telling advantage is that electronic editions tend to cost noticeably less than their physical counterparts, particularly when it comes to recent hardcover releases.

Ebooks may not take up any room, and genre fiction can be less expensive than hardcover books, but library budgets have shrunk.

In some markets, Walmart promotes hardcover copies of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life on sale for less than $ 9 to get customers into the stores, down from its $ 29 retail price, Weiner said.

Ebooks (at best) are selling for less than 50 % of the hardcover price — often at 35 - 40 %.

The author and commentator Kristine Kathryn Rusch walks us through her surprise at finding a long - awaited new hardcover at Amazon selling for less than the ebook price on its release date.

Less than 45 % of their Amazon income is coming from hardcover and paperback sales.

People blame the publishers when they see hardcovers cost the same as or less than e-books, but that's an image Amazon is able to manipulate behind the scenes because it's willing to sell hardcovers below cost.

It was a beautiful hardcover, but to my shock I discovered that I liked it less than reading on my Nook.

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.

«[A] digital book is far less profitable than its hardcover cousin priced at $ 25,» their article argued.

So, read it you want to find out what happened to Carpenter after Mussolini was last seen crawling down Satan's leg on his (Benito's) escape from Hell, but don't buy the hardcover version unless you can find it in a remainder bin for less than what the paperback will cost you.