Sentences with phrase «of pbooks»

Since we (authors, publishers) get income from purchases by readers of pBooks and / or eBooks, trying to force pBook sales is not making it easy for eBook readers to buy the book.

I've got a stack of pbooks by my bed, a huge library we call a house and a whack of ebooks loaded in my ereader.

Instead, they'll buy the pbook and pirate the ebook, or buy the ebook and find a very cheap used copy of the pbook.

Online print book are what, 20 % of pbook sales?

Books printed prior to the inception of our pBook registration program, foreign translations, and English - language reprints produced by Dreamtech Press for sale in India do not contain the necessary registration codes and are not eligible for pBook registration.

Not exact matches

Next reason — although there are millions of books available as ebooks — so many are not, sometimes even new ones, but mostly older ones you used to own as pbook.

This ill - fated connection results in the inflated pricing of ebooks attributed to the expense of first producing the pbook by mainstream publishers.

The transitional turmoil in the publishing industry is prompting authors to ask publishers specifically what the benefits are when they sell the rights to a popular ebook to one of the â $ œbig sixâ $ to be eventually release as a pbook.

There is a trend developing that when an ebook has achieved a significant number of sales the mainstream houses will seek out the ebook author and put a pbook publishing deal on the table.

Plus, pbooks can be loaned, re-sold and archived for 100s of years without fear that the format will become obsolete.

Pbooks will be significantly cannibalized by ebooks; I believe dedicated ebook readers are only a transition tech on the way to the mainstreaming of reading ebooks on tablets, smart phones and other multi-purpose gadgets but ebooks will become mainstream sooner or later.

Inexpensive Upgrade — If you want the pBook of an eBook you own you can upgrade to the pBook without having to pay for content you already own.

Liz, In no way do we put «all our eggs» in the Amazon basket; we just use their unequaled platform to sell eBooks (and have been doing so since the advent of the Kindle, and selling pBooks through Amazon since 1996).

Whether you decide that that's people's doing or the fact that ebooks are now available, the result is the same, pbooks sales fall because of ebooks / people who read ebooks.

Assuming you begin with an edited manuscript there are two tasks one must complete regardless of eBook or pBook:

There are also people who want both the pbook and the ebook — the former for their bookshelves, and because they genuinely love the feel of print books, and the latter for convenience when away from home.

I'm sure they are the future of content distribution, but I hope it is a long time before they replace pbooks.

Should you put out an ebook version of that old pbook?

Much of the thinking revolves around a central point: unlike pbooks, ebooks are intangible — just a collection of bits and bytes.

Many indie authors eschew pbooks over ebooks because of costs and royalties and other things (I can release an ebook more efficiently than a pbook), but even Amazon does paper (Create Space).

Heck, half my big6 reading is now «hand me down pbooks» The best part is that favorite authors of mine, that were «constrained by the publishers», are soon going to release their newest novels sans the constraints of the old system.

There are tons of ebooks and pbooks out there telling you how to self - publish (self - publishers making a living out of self - publishers!)

All in all, after all the arguments both ways, I fail to understand why publishers who take less risk with ebooks as with pbooks should be compensated the same regardless of the form...

I suppose at some point I will stop comparing eBooks to pBooks and will come to accept a Kindle page as normal, but part of a parallel universe of publishing.

The growing acceptance of the typographical limitations of eBooks has led to an increasing dumbing - down with pBooks — particularly, the lack of hyphenation.

In other words, digitization of books allow «the greedies» to make the book something it's never been: pbooks are universal and can be read anywhere, anytime and anyhow; ebooks are files strongly linked to an ecosystem, an ecosystem led by hypocrites who are doing their utmost to imprison readers technically (DRM + EPUB alterations) while screaming «Hey, we're using an open standard!».