Sentences with phrase «less than a physical book»

Further, e-books * ARE * worth less than physical books for the very fact that they are not physical.

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.

I hope that at some point in the not too distant future the publishers come to their senses and charge more reasonable prices (say, a little less than a physical book), but I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.

As far as readers are concerned, the incremental cost to produce more copies of an e-book is zero.So the readers expect an eBook to be priced less than a physical book.

On the one hand it reinforces the idea of ebooks being «worth» less than physical books and on the other, the price of physical books is too high, why else would retailers be selling them at such large discounts.

«All ebooks will cost less than the physical books», Kessel told us as he detailed the launch of the new Amazon Kindle store in the UK, before adding: «Customers believe that electronic books should be cheaper than physical books and we agree».

I will still argue that ebooks should cost less than physical books * because you get less.

Not exact matches

But it is actually less a contribution to critical theory than a continuation of several themes from earlier books, including the search for a metaphor or bridge from the self to the physical world.

He made his first appearance in the comic book Strange Tales # 110, cover - dated July, 1963 — a former surgeon turned «Sorcerer Supreme» who was billed as «a different kind of super-hero,» operating in a realm that's much less the physical than the metaphysical.

In their terms it states that the Amazon list price must be 20 % less than any retail price of a PHYSICAL copy of the book.

Does this mean screen based reading is in some ways less informative, less pleasant, or less of an intellectual exercise than reading a physical book?

As a result, Amazon would seem to have less room for error than Apple, and while it has plenty of high - margin products to sell in the form of accessories, the rumored mix of Kindle devices and physical books doesn't seem incredibly enticing, especially when prices for Kindles are so low (that's the stuff you don't mind buying online) and only going lower.

Godin's decision is also backed up by sales successes like Amazon's Kindle e-reader, Apple's iPad, and even reports like this one that suggest the e-book revolution is redefining the nature of reading itself, and reading e-books means readers are less isolated than if they were reading a physical book.

Customers can buy your eBook without ever having to leave their couch, and they'll spend way less money doing that than they would buying physical books at the mall.

At physical bookstores, if I found less than three or four books I was interested in buying, I'd make a second or third trip down the aisles looking for more books.

10 dollars is absolutely absurd when you can get them for free in physical form at a library, not to mention used books stores where they cost less than 3 dollars at times..

i've seen physical books sell for less than an ebook.

Do you think being published in ebook format is any less exciting than being published in a real physical book, be it hardback or mass market paperback?

The Kindle DX, with a larger screen than the regular model, costs $ 489, but digital books can cost less than half what physical ones do.

The actual physical costs of a print book — paper, printing, binding, packaging, warehousing, etc. — are less than 10 % of the cover price, even in small volumes, and drop to less than a dollar per book for large volume titles such as bestsellers.

We download books in less time than it takes to pull their physical cousins off the shelf.

A study found that people retain less information if read on a tablet or an eReader than a physical book.

When you combine this with the fact that «owning» a «new» file has less value for most people than owning a new physical book, you can see the potential for more, perhaps many more, people to shift from buying to borrowing especially if borrowing is free.

So, while an ebook might have less value to you than a physical book, there are definitely specific classes of books (i.e. those that I read as disposable entertainment) for which an ebook has greater value to me.

The firm accounts for less than a quarter of physical book sales (see box).

The waiting thing sounds well and good but if they're going to go from 14.99 down to the 9.99 they are now, I could just go on half.com or ebay or anywhere that sells used books (or the library, I know, a crazy idea) and get the physical copy for less than it would be on my kindle now.

Recommendations from the staff of physical book stores were used by a little less than a third of device owners, and about one in five got reading recommendations from libraries or librarians.

Think of software giant Microsoft, whose bulk asset value is determined by intellectual property rather than physical property; its shares have rarely sold for less than 10 times book value.

At first blush, that's a lot of money for an in - app subscription, but it's significantly less than Colorfiy asks for, and when you consider that a physical colouring book with approximately 50 images costs about $ 15, then Recolor's subscription is actually pretty reasonable.