Sentences with phrase «less than paperback books»

You might have noticed that eBooks tend to cost less than paperback books — there's a general consumer expectation that they should be a bit cheaper.

I wish that Logos would become competitive here and sell their digital books for significantly less than the paperback books, and maybe even do some sort of price matching with Amazon Kindle eBooks.

It is for this exact reason (along with many others) that Amazon sells digital books for less than the paperback books.

I myself am an author on Amazon, and I list my digital books for about 50 % less than my paperback books.

At 0.3 inches thick and weighing less than 8.7 ounces, the Kindle Paperwhite weighs less than a paperback book and is as thin as a pencil.

Kindle tips the scales at a total 10.3 ounces — «That's less than a paperback book,» Bezos said — and uses an «electronic ink» technology to mimic paper, not a computer screen.

The Xoom 2 media edition will arrive with WIFI connectivity and a smaller 8.2 - inch display, with a weight that is less than a paperback book.

Not exact matches

If you prefer paperback books like I do, you can get in on Amazon as well for less than $ 15 (And if you want the paperback, you can get free shipping by joining Amazon Prime for free for 30 days!)

Some of the machines take less than five minutes to download the book file, print, and bind with a high quality, gloss, paperback cover.

You are right that production and distribution costs per unit are less for ebooks than for paperbacks, but authors have the same 2 % to 12.5 % earnings of the list price of the book.

Says Maria Harrison, whose trade paperback of less than 200 pages was priced at $ 24.95, «Why would anyone want to buy an overpriced book from an unknown author when they can buy a wonderful book by a best - selling writer for less than ten dollars?

Looking at sales by format, trade paperbacks — the format that holds adult coloring books — had a 4.01 % gain in unit sales over 2015, which is slightly less than 2015 (5 %).

I expect to pay a couple of pounds or so less than the paperback version for books from publishers, and # 0 - # 2.00 for self - published books depending on how hard the author's worked to get a following.

From must to nice: — fast page turns — paperback size, B - format, A5 (between 13 × 20 and 15 × 22 cm)-- less than 250 g — epub, pdf, and image formats — simple drag and drop USB sync (no proprietary app)-- waterproof, drop proof — fast cold boot — cloud sync — note taking — pressure sensitive sketches — use as external DP / HDMI monitor — web browser good enough for Wikipedia offline — synchronize audio book with ebook

In less than a month, more than 10,000 community volunteers will venture out into their cities and towns, armed with a total of 500,000 paperback books.

He was originally going to buy the books but discovered that the ebooks cost only a few dollars less than the paperbacks.

Am I «devaluing» a book if I choose to wait for the mass market paperback, which is often 5 times less than the hardback?

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?

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.

Frequently even months and years after a book's release, the paperback is less expensive than the ebook.

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.

You can self - publish a high quality book in both ebook and paperback for less than $ 2000 in direct costs.

I love the convenience of it and it is easy to carry in my purse and weighs less than books, even paperbacks.

The total cost of our promotion was six paperbacks, two audio books, less than $ 150 in gift cards, and approximately $ 250 in promotion.

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).

Compared to many people's usage of paperbacks, and as a low - cost alternative for casual reader with a less than a book - a-month habit, I think K4 may well hit the mark.

Just as, with a paperback, you pay less than for a hardcover but get a less durable book.

Most e-books I buy are less expensive than print books anyway, and I'd much rather save a couple bucks up front than hope I can try to sell a used paperback for more than a pittance.

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.

Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback Wireless: 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle, anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi - Fi hotspots Books in Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered in less than 60 seconds; no PC required Improved Display: Reads like real paper; now boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and even crisper images Longer Battery Life: 25 % longer battery life; read for days without recharging More Storage: Take your library with you; holds over 1,500 books Faster Page Turns: 20 % faster page turns Read - to - Me: With the new Text - to - Speech feature, Kindle can read every book, blog, magazine, and newspaper out loud to you Large Selection: Over 230,000 books plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs available Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $ 9.99, unless marked othebooks right from your Kindle, anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi - Fi hotspots Books in Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered in less than 60 seconds; no PC required Improved Display: Reads like real paper; now boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and even crisper images Longer Battery Life: 25 % longer battery life; read for days without recharging More Storage: Take your library with you; holds over 1,500 books Faster Page Turns: 20 % faster page turns Read - to - Me: With the new Text - to - Speech feature, Kindle can read every book, blog, magazine, and newspaper out loud to you Large Selection: Over 230,000 books plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs available Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $ 9.99, unless marked otheBooks in Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered in less than 60 seconds; no PC required Improved Display: Reads like real paper; now boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and even crisper images Longer Battery Life: 25 % longer battery life; read for days without recharging More Storage: Take your library with you; holds over 1,500 books Faster Page Turns: 20 % faster page turns Read - to - Me: With the new Text - to - Speech feature, Kindle can read every book, blog, magazine, and newspaper out loud to you Large Selection: Over 230,000 books plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs available Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $ 9.99, unless marked othebooks delivered in less than 60 seconds; no PC required Improved Display: Reads like real paper; now boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and even crisper images Longer Battery Life: 25 % longer battery life; read for days without recharging More Storage: Take your library with you; holds over 1,500 books Faster Page Turns: 20 % faster page turns Read - to - Me: With the new Text - to - Speech feature, Kindle can read every book, blog, magazine, and newspaper out loud to you Large Selection: Over 230,000 books plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs available Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $ 9.99, unless marked othebooks Faster Page Turns: 20 % faster page turns Read - to - Me: With the new Text - to - Speech feature, Kindle can read every book, blog, magazine, and newspaper out loud to you Large Selection: Over 230,000 books plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs available Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $ 9.99, unless marked otherbook, blog, magazine, and newspaper out loud to you Large Selection: Over 230,000 books plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs available Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $ 9.99, unless marked othebooks plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs available Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $ 9.99, unless marked otherBook Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $ 9.99, unless marked otherwise

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.

There are a few areas where the book is better — You don't have to worry about damaging it or dropping it, the book never runs out of battery life (though a reading light might), there are less page turns, paperbacks are much lighter than the Kindle 3 plus lighted cover combination.

The upside of course is that, with the Kindle, a thousand books (assuming you use an SD card for added storage) and a huge stack of magazines and newspapers weighs less than 11 ounces and takes up less space in your carry - on than a single John Grisham paperback.

Are you under the impression that small presses charge less for their books than the big five who can do deep discounts and mass market paperbacks galore?

There may be some books where simply abandoning the «less than $ 9.99» customers might lead to higher overall profits, but given that publishers typically sell paperbacks for less than that I'm skeptical that that would be true for most books.

And you can also price a digital book for much less than a paperback, which makes it easier to sell (the majority of self - published print books cost $ 13.99 and up while the majority of indie e-books sell in the $.99 - $ 5.99 range.

Unless you are talking small print runs the cost of physically producing a book is less than a dollar (assuming a paperback best seller quantity of course).

The only argument you'll probably need to give your mom is not that one Kindle weighs less than a paperback but holds thousands of books.

Today, new research from Mintel finds that one in four (26 %) consumers who have bought an e-book in the past year say that they read more than they used to because e-books cost less than paperbacks, rising to as many as four in ten (38 %) 16 - 24 year old - book owners.

Because I can purchase a paperback copy of the same book for LESS than that; I can sell that paper book BACK somewhere or loan it to MULTIPLE friends; and let's be honest — the profit margin on a digital book is extraordinarily different than on a print book.

It's small, compact, and lightweight (the basic Kindle weighs less than 6 ounces, the Paperwhite 3G 7.8 ounces), smaller than most paperback books.

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