Sentences with phrase «less than the print book»

Seriously, tablets got two votes less than print books, which was very surprising.

The big difference, of course, is that many of the electronic books are sold, at least by Amazon, for less than the printed book, and many, many readers would argue, as it should be.

That's why people are so upset and largely why ebooks are perceived as worth less than print books.

You can't beat these prices without buying second hand, and a common objection to e-books is the notion that they pay the author less than print books do.

I agree they should cost less than printed books, but to say there is no design involved with ebooks is completely wrong, and I don't see Germaine Greer offering e-versions of her own books for pennies, so it looks like she is just talking crap in an attempt to get a few more seconds worth of fame (again).

They figure if a publisher is delivering an ebook instead of print they must be saving a ton, so the ebook price should be significantly less than the print book price.

Prices for e-books climbed slightly, but were still significantly less than print books.

Keep in mind that (a) not all printed books currently make sense as e-books (children's books, cookbooks, picture books, etc.), (b) not all books that do make sense have been released in e-book format yet, and (c) that e-books generally sell for less than printed books, so 8 % of revenue would mean a higher percentage of unit sales.

What we can say with certainty is that an ebook should cost less than a print book.

Not exact matches

BoraZ: Due to diversity of styles, I think our book is more fun than the collections from print sources, traditional format with less experimentation.

For less than $ 14 a book you can create at least 45 beautiful botanical and floral printed wedding invites — what a steal!

Less than 20 per cent of our rural households have any printed material at home, other than religious books (let's say).

The Enhanced Pearson eText may be purchased stand - alone for 50 - 60 % less than a print bound book.

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

An author can get an amazing cover (see Damonza.com, for example) for less than one - third that amount and devote the remainder of his or her hard - earned money with other professionals who help him or her develop, edit, print, and market his or her book.

While magazines can't be a large percentage of Indigo's print sales, that trend suggests that book sales may have decreased by even less than 4.6 %.

What's interesting here is that the second mode of discovery, «in - person - received recommendation from a a friend or relative» — generally termed word - of - mouth — seems to be somewhat less effective for ebooks than for print books.

Lesser in value than books that were fortunate enough to get put into print.

The common rationale is that since ebooks cost a fraction of printing a real book, they should also be priced much less than what it is right now.

You can provide the loser with an ebook in any format you wish, from free to paid, but remembering that simply using his email address to «gift» him the ebook from Amazon will cost you less than the price of your print book and will increase your ebook ranking.

With print books, libraries have traditionally paid less than retail price for copies.

I sell one print book for every 100 e-books, and earn a whole lot less money per print copy than I do on an e-book.

We think digital books should cost somewhat less than their print counterparts.

Now, there's less of a «doorstop effect» with ebooks than print books.

We always make sure our ebook prices are less than our print prices But because the sales are now spread between print and digital the costs can't be that dramatically different because otherwise we would end up with much less revenue... unless you want to argue if the book were 4.99 we'd possibly sell a lot more ebooks.

«Our goal with Kindle is to make every book, ever published, in print or out of print, available in less than 60 seconds,» said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content.

We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly - we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,» said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com.

I'm still in the amateur stage, (less than 500,000 words printed) but I've been self - publishing shorts and a book from my back list just to learn the trade.

My book OUR HUSBAND, which a former print publisher sold at less than impressive levels, was the best - selling self - published Kindle book of 2012.

As it stands, readers who choose to buy this book for Kindle are getting quite a bit less than the readers who order the print version but are paying almost as much.

For roughly less than $ 7 USD you can get a copy of your book printed.

The price of the book must also be less than its print counterpart.

That means they have less «value» to the reader than a print book.

Since then, computer programs that enable publishers to prepare books for printing entirely on computers, coupled with the rise of print - on - demand (POD) technology, mean that the publishing process can be much less costly than it used to be.

E-books can be less expensive than printed books.

They're not all green energy, due to the minerals that go into the electronics that most people prefer to read their eBooks on, but because they are meant to be used many times over, their impact is drastically less than that of print books.

The Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, better known as the Vatican Library, has decided to open up its vast collection of Greek manuscripts, 15th - century printed books (incunabula), Hebrew manuscripts, along with other historical printed titles, which together make up no less than 1.5 million pages.

Would it look ridiculous as a printed book because it's less than 15,000 words (ballpark).

IIRC, to add to the entertainment Kris Rusch mentioned late last year that not only did tradpubbers raise the price of their ebooks, but Amazon discounted the print versions of the same books to LESS than the cost of the newly - raised tradpub ebook prices.

However, since traditional publishers own the means of mass production for print books, their per - unit costs are lower than mine, which means they can offer a print edition for less than I can.

We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly — we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,» according to Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos.

No spare change, but as I've pointed out elsewhere, this remains little more than a rounding error for the book publishing industry as a whole, representing still less than 5 % of anticipated 2009 total print sales.

«The vision for Kindle is every book ever in print in any language — all available in less than 60 seconds.

Independent publishers, you've already told us you love Pressbooks because it makes it so easy for you to generate book files in the formats you need to publish in ebookstores and print - on - demand, for hundreds to thousands less than they would cost you

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.

In fact, I was recently rejected as an emerging writer before even getting into the running because my publisher had a print run of less than 350 for my last book.

Answer: The short answer to how to price your book is at LEAST 50 % LESS than your print version.

I pay less than $ 8.00 per Audible title, less than half what it used to cost me to rent from Books on Tape, also less than most print bBooks on Tape, also less than most print booksbooks.

«We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly — we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,» he said.

Another factor that Amazon doesn't mention is that it makes less money per e-book than it does on print books, and in some cases is losing money on e-books.