Sentences with phrase «much as a hardcover»

This is why a new ebook almost costs as much as a hardcover and is normally more expensive than a paperback.

Hardcover sales in adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebook - only.

Why pay a price almost as much as a hardcover for an ebook?

Small - format pocket books may be published and promoted much as a hardcover or trade book title.

Not exact matches

But this ebook has allowed me to share over 100 recipes without nearly as much work as a hardcover book would be.

(The collected hardcover editions of his books weigh as much as an unruly eight - year - old in need of a nap.)

by Jay - Z Spiegel & Grau Hardcover, $ 35.00 336 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4000-6892-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge.

That's nice, but even for an author I really like, I'd rather wait another year for the paperback than spend twice as much on the hardcover right now anyway.

In all of these scenarios, the marginal cost of production is not going to be even $ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over $ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last big brick Harry Potter novels cost a teeny bit more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much more), meaning that if we're talking marginal cost of production as the difference in price between a paperback and an ebook, we're not talking about a huge difference in price.

I predict used bookstores will become much more upscale as hardcover books become rare collectibles.

It turns out that e-books are not cannibalizing hardcover and trade paperback sales, as publishers» once feared, though mass market paperbacks — which are often published much later than their hardback counterparts, and sold mostly in more traditional retail environments like drugstores — have been negatively impacted.

On Mike Shatzkin's blog, he speculated that the publishers» decision to delay the e-book versions of some major upcoming titles isn't «a battle to rescue hardcover books from price perception issues caused by inexpensive ebooks» so much as it is about «wresting control of their ebook destinies back from Amazon.»

Publishers fought and won the ability to raise eBook prices, sometimes charging as much for digital copies as hardcover print versions.

Therefore, the trend with paperbacks — which used to mean sometimes as much as a year or more following the release of the title in hardcover — is to decrease the amount of time it takes for a title to reach the trade paperback consumer.

Much as I want to support my fellow writers and independent booksellers like Powell's, I would rather buy two hardcovers for my $ 28 than one.

Hardcover books are good business for mainstream publishers because they can set a much higher price for them — so they usually come out first to force buyers to pay as much as possible, then eventually they bring out the ebooks and paperbacks.

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.

In the US, the number one adult fiction book of the year (on the Publisher's Weekly list) can sell as much as 5 - 6 million copies in hardcover.

[50] In the overall US market, paperback book sales are still much larger than either hardcover or e-book; the American Publishing Association estimated e-books represented 8.5 % of sales as of mid-2010, up from 3 % a year before.

After all, before the switch, Random House was the only large publisher still using the retail model (the same model used for printed books), where Random House received 50 % of the «list price,» which was often the same as the hardcover price, and Amazon could discount the e-book as much as they wanted without cutting into the royalty.

Although they received the full wholesale value of each book sold by Amazon, publishers didn't want $ 9.99 to catch on as the new default price for e-books, especially since this was so much lower than hardcovers.

Sadly, PW also seems to have stopped providing as much detail on breaking down print book sales (hardcovers, trade paperbacks, etc.), although they did reveal that print book sales «plunged» in June, with trade paperback sales down a whopping 64 %, adult hardcovers down 25 %, and mass - market paperbacks down 22 %.

While we were on the line I even experimentally purchased the book to see what price I was charged as their representative said they would refund the price if I was charged USD45 — which I was, so they refunded me the money and cancelled the sale (the hardcover was much cheaper than USD45!).

But authors are paid anywhere from $ 1.58 up to $ 3.68 on the $ 15 ebook, nearly as much as the $ 30 hardcover!

The hardcover is great for the kitchen, but the book is as much a joy to read as it is to cook from....

«Rule 34» was sold in 2008, so benefited from publishers not thinking ebook rights were worth much, so in principle I get nearly as much money from an ebook sale as from a hardcover.

In pursuit of justification to charge a higher price for e-books than, say, $ 9.99 — perhaps even as much for an e-book as a hardcover — there has been much discussion of possibility of producing «enhanced» e-books.

Sales of Kindle ebooks at Amazon.com show an encouraging surge in growth, as much as 43 % higher compared to physical hardcover books over the past 3 months.

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.

Hardcover books today are as much about sentimentality as they are about text, but the work of a young artist now on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem eschews textuality altogether for an aesthetic and material communion with these spined signifiers.