Not exact matches
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.
Hmm,
going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good ebook price being 75 %
of the paper version, I wonder if some
of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or
trade paperback version rather than the mass
paperback format.
Fiction River also
goes where no anthology series has
gone before, with audio editions as well as ebook and
trade paperback volumes that never
go out
of print.
um i loved this and i just
went to find volume 2
of the
trade paperback and i can't find it ANYWHERE.
One promotion
going on throughout the month
of June offers a significantly discounted ebook with the purchase
of one
of twelve specific Algonquin
trade paperbacks at any participating Barnes and Noble store.
HarperCollins is doing something pretty amazing, they are
going to offer the
trade paperback, which costs $ 14.99, at the price
of $ 8.99 just to schools.
Otherwise, I'll keep on
going to half price books precisely because the price points aren't there for electronic publishing to make it worth my time, and I honestly don't have the funds to pay for more than a handful
of trade paperback book editions.
And the sales numbers for the
trade paperback versions
of the two along with my other books also
went up noticably.
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.
«The single biggest obstacle to all publishers now is
going digital without pissing off retailers, but they can't be beholden to a few thousand stores,» private citizen Waid said before later adding that a model
of digital - only serialization leading to print
trade paperbacks seemed inevitable.
Nephilim
goes live Thursday Feb 8th, but there's already a review at Amazon because the
trade paperback snuck out
of the system early (so you can buy that now!)
Book publishing sales actually
went up overall a little bit, including up for
trade paperbacks, which is part
of the economic recovery
of the last few years.
The Long Tail: The importance
of trade paperback collections for the long term viability
of a series is undeniable and I think that trend is
going to continue as the market keeps expanding beyond traditional comic shops.
But nonetheless, BookScan is the industry's
go - to source for the size
of the print market, used to estimate the overall number
of hardcovers,
trade paperbacks, mass - market
paperbacks, and board books sold each year in the U.S.