Sentences with phrase «much as a paperback»

It troubles me a bit that the digital books cost almost as much as the paperback books.

I think the reader is correct when they say, «How come this ebook costs just as much as the paperback and I can't do as much with it?

Not exact matches

I love a good paperback as much as anyone, but the convenience of downloading a new book right from your phone can't be beat.

Strictly speaking, I have no right to feel anything at all about the way the Church is going, and no right either to remember as much ecclesiastical history as I do or to buy and read paperbacks on theology.

So as much as I love paperback books, I also see the benefit to digital books.

I'm always surprised how many people still want a paperback version even though the digital version costs half as much.

As a general rule, paperback books are not going to bring in as much profit as e-books, because, well, product — paper, ink, covers, etcAs a general rule, paperback books are not going to bring in as much profit as e-books, because, well, product — paper, ink, covers, etcas much profit as e-books, because, well, product — paper, ink, covers, etcas e-books, because, well, product — paper, ink, covers, etc..

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.

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

Selecting «eBook» will take you to the eBook creator, which is much the same as the paperback Book Creator, as you will see below.

My paperbacks run between $ 11.99 and $ 12.99 and that's with making them as inexpensive as possible (meaning I don't make much from each sale).

Hard cover self publishing follows much of the same processes as other books, with the option to purchase paperback versions at any time after your initial launch.

I recently received a cookbook via kindle as well as paperback and must say the paperback is so much easier to understand.

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.

Likewise, I factor that in with paperbacks (which, as established, are much more accessible to me than digital currently as a low vision person).

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.

Much as it pained me to do so, the vast majority of my paperbacks were thrown in the dumpster behind the studio, as I was just done shuffling a hundred and some odd pounds of book.

Releasing both hardback and paperback at the same time or near each other probably makes sense, as do much lower eBook prices, especially for debut authors.

Third: the new generations have always got the paperback editions as much as the hardbacks, so they don't have the same nostalgia for Look And Feel of those as do people who stared reading a while before paperbacks became very acceptable.

If a $ 15 hardback is offered as a $ 8 paperback while offered at a $ 6 or less DRM - free ebook (and downloadable in multiple formats at that, as is done at http://www.Baen.com) then there would not be so much the of the piracy issue for everyone to worry about.

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.

Even so, these same publishers who are so adamant about limiting our access to these e-books — and if you don't believe me, buy an e-book using Adobe Digital Editions and try to read it on a machine that isn't tied to that specific Adobe account — are more than willing to charge us as much or more for the digital version than we'd pay for the paperback copy of the book.

The specialised ereader devices cost as much as this reader's entire year's worth of reading (i.e. as much as six to twelve paperbacks would cost, but without the benefit of lending).

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.

As much as I like reading on my kindle app I still prefer to read a nice paperback booAs much as I like reading on my kindle app I still prefer to read a nice paperback booas I like reading on my kindle app I still prefer to read a nice paperback book.

If the going rates are any indication, it has become something of a collector's item; as much as several hundred dollars for the paperback.

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.

When you buy a Kindle book from Amazon, can you save the file and share it with another persons Kindle in much the same way as you would a paperback?

What is desperately needed is a better way for the typical reader to sort through the inevitable dreck to find those precious gems they will grow to love much as we did in olden times when a paperback reprint went for a quarter.

It fits comfortably in one hand, and it weighs about as much as a thick paperback book (340 grams).

Not much to think about when the choice is between a) one or two traditionally published novels which probably cost close to 8 or 9 euros as paperbacks and ebooks or b) twice or thrice as many self - published kindle ebooks from writers I have already read and found to be good enough.

Emma Donoghue continues on a high with impressive sales for January of 2,578 for Room, as does Emma Hannigan's paperback edition of Poolbeg published, Miss Conceived (though at a much lower level).

Slightly off - topic, perhaps — but I am pretty certain that charging almost as much for the ebook as you are for the paperback version of a book is a rip - off.

Design a paperback - sized device — that is still almost as much phone as tablet — around the idea that it'll primarily be held in a landscape position.

[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.

Sales of Konrath's $ 2.99 ebook will deliver him about $ 2.10 a copy (Konrath says $ 2.04; not sure where the other six cents is going...), as much or more as he would make on a $ 14.95 paperback from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $ 9.99 ebook distributed under «Agency» terms and current major publisher royalty conventions.

A bonus is that their ePub export function has enabled me to produce eBooks that look as much like their paperback brethren as possible, in much less time than hand coding would take.

In «So Many Books,» Zaid playfully writes that «if a mass - market paperback costs $ 10 and takes two hours to read, for a minimum - wage earner the time spent is worth as much as the book.»

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 %.

And that makes me balk a great deal at e-books that cost as much and more than paperbacks.

When a trashy paperback costs as much as a monthly subscription to Netflix, it's kind of a hard sell.

Even though I may love an author and all the work they've come out with, I'm not going to pay for one e-book what I could pay for one paperback, which I still wouldn't do, because I can get 3 other e-books that I'm looking forward to reading just as much.

Of note, e-book sales for October were more than 2 / 3rds as much (67.6 %) as mass market paperback sales ($ 40.7 M compared to $ 60.2 M).

Do you think we'll see pushback from people who are complaining that they're paying $ 18 for an eBook when a paperback is $ 10 and they're not getting as much value?

Well, what if I told you that, in March 2010 (the latest month data is available), total e-book sales were over 53 % as much as total mass - market paperback sales.

With my Kindle that stack is right there with me all in a package as small, light, and much thinner than a mass market paperback.

Nobody can come into my house and steal a paperback, but they can and do remove legally purchased books from ereaders without so much as a by your leave.

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.

We are limited on how much we carry on our expedition kayak tours but as long as the power pack is no larger than a paperback book it should be fine.

Borrowing an image from the cover of a mass - market paperback, Stephen King's The Firestarter (1984), Guyton's inkjet on canvas, Untitled (2008), had as much to do with appropriation as abstraction.