Jane von Mehren, senior vice president and publisher
of trade paperbacks at the Random House Publishing Group, declined to comment on Chabon's criticism.
Not exact matches
As I haven't read the Newberry Award - winning Kate DiCamillo novel on which the film is based, hard to know whether to accuse this adaptation
of fidelity or whitewash — but
at the risk
of judging a book by its cover, the artist's rendering
of India Opal on the
trade paperback hints
at the latter by virtue
of looking nothing like the Aryan ideal that is Robb.
Says Maria Harrison, whose
trade paperback of less than 200 pages was priced
at $ 24.95, «Why would anyone want to buy an overpriced book from an unknown author when they can buy a wonderful book by a best - selling writer for less than ten dollars?
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.
If anyone is interested, additional information can be found
at the back
of the
trade paperback version
of Beneath a Marble Sky.
These aren't usually published by independent authors and publishers, as they are sold via supermarkets and corner stores and used by
trade publishers to release long running, top selling books
at reduced prices
of your typical
trade paperback.
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.
The fewer e-book stores that exist, the less sales the format generates, which is resulting in a resurgence
of trade paperback and hardcover sales
at the expense
of e-books.
Algonquin, an imprint
of Workman Publishing, is offering customers a discount towards the purchase
of an ebook for each
of its
trade paperbacks purchased
at more than 300 Barnes and Noble locations throughout the month
of July.
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.
That includes sales
of single issues
at comic shops and newsstands, as well as book channel sales
of trade paperbacks, or collected volumes
of comics.
I've got Ingram - distributed hardbacks and
trade paperbacks on the shelves
of Barnes & Noble stores that have no publisher logo on the spine
at all.
The
trade paperback version
of «Tales From A Lone Star» are now available
at Amazon!
One aspect
of POD that Curtis mentioned in his recent blog post is the prohibitive cost per book when comparing a typical print run
of a
trade paperback with the cost
of printing one title
at a time per customer request.
Mostly I wait for remaindered stock or,
at worst, reduced price
trade paperbacks, which seem to be about the best bargain given the high cost
of mass market paper backs now.
While
trade paperbacks still lead the industry in sales, it does seem inevitable that
at some point, eBooks will make up the vast majority
of book sales while physical books will fill a niche role.
Where other categories
of fiction are pricing ebooks
at trade paperback prices
at best, or above hardback prices
at worst (who in Hel's Misty Halls do they justify charging more for an ebook than for a hardback?)
Trade paperback is an industry term that lets readers know the book is made
of higher quality materials, produced in a larger size and offered
at a higher price than mass - market
paperbacks.
At first I simply felt a wave
of sympathy for those authors who found their familiar world swept away, particularly those authors who had books that were supposed to come out this fall and were in the middle
of marketing campaigns designed around traditional
trade paperbacks and brick and mortar stores.
Unfortunately, print - on - demand can't work
at the scale economies
of the mass - market
paperback, so I'm looking
at a
trade paperback format which is always more expensive.
Readers
of the printed, monthly version
of Brian Wood and Kristian Donaldson's «The Massive» will be treated to content unseen in the digital releases or
trade paperback collections, Wood announced Friday
at Emerald City Comicon.
Think about it: If a hardcover is selling dozens
of copies per day
at $ 35 or if a
trade paperback is selling frequently
at $ 25, then $ 9.99 is an enticing e-book price.
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!)
When a book becomes a film, for instance, the hardcover,
trade paperback and mass market
paperback editions
of that book may all end up back on the bestseller list
at the same time, despite the mass market being the cheapest (and the e-book too — that's one time where the e-book price may be raised again because they know people will pay it.)
You can buy many
of these
trade -
paperback - style collections, sometimes
at a discount over buying the individual issues, via Comixology.
With this monopoly or near - monopoly they can dictate terms to publishers or dictate what gets published: Amazon is great
at selling certain kinds
of books but not others (
trade paperbacks, lit fiction that needs «discovery»; mid list from writers who lack a social media or publicity «platform»), and the more Amazon dominates the market, the less viable it becomes to publish books in those categories.
I would love for our single issue sales to be higher (and I'm hoping more
of our collection readers will get impatient and subscribe
at their local comic shops) but right now our
trade paperback sales are strong enough that we can continue to push forward.
As
of December 27, 2014, the title was sitting comfortably
at number 3 on the
paperback trade fiction list
of The New York Times.
Dark Horse's anthology series Dark Horse Presents has been through a number
of incarnations
at this point: First as a print comic that ran from 1986 to 2000 and premiered some
of the most outstanding work around; then as a digital comic
at MySpace (yes, it's still there) that ran online for free and was collected into
trade paperbacks.