Not exact matches
The first edition of Tonal Journal — it has a linen
hardcover and is more akin to a coffee table book
than a magazine — launches April 6 and contains 288 pages of essays and editorials from over 60 contributors, many of whom have collaborated with Surti on
other projects.
The discounts are, of course, far higher
than the usual 40 % -50 % range offered by Amazon, warehouse clubs and
other discounters — including Overstock — and are more typical for remainders
than frontlist
hardcovers.
The special editions, which will include author interviews and
other material, such as reading guides, will carry a list price slightly higher
than the
hardcover edition.
In the meantime, I have spent hundreds of dollars recently on non-fiction history and travel
hardcovers with charts, diagrams and
other illustrations needing more
than e-book can offer for proper display, but I would not do that for novels in e-book form.
In fact, this prolific author sold more
hardcover books in the United Kingdom during the 1900's
than any
other living novelist.
Some e-books expire after a certain number of loans, whereas
others cost dramatically more
than the
hardcover or paperback.
I also have a twitchy back, so I have to say, when reading on the run, it is so much better to carry my Kobo
than a 600 page
hardcover (for example) on top of all the
other stuff I carry on a daily basis.
But for Rector's
other books, such as «The Cold Kiss,» published by Macmillan in 2010, the Kindle price is $ 11.99, higher
than the $ 7.99 mass market paperback price and just slightly less
than the $ 16.49
hardcover price (Amazon includes a disclaimed that the price was set by Macmillan).
More customers were buying eBooks for their Kindles or
other devices
than printed paperbacks and
hardcovers.
Ever since I heard that quote from Amazon, that e-book sales were greater
than hardcover sales, I've been wondering if the e-book sales number included all the public domain and
other free titles.
The publisher may wish to use your manuscript in ways
other than producing
hardcover or paperback print book editions.
The
other big headline: Amazon customers are now buying more e-books
than hardcover books.
Certain binding options look better
than others (spiral binding is great for cookbooks,
hardcover is perfect for fiction).
There is no good reason for this,
other than to protect
hardcover sales.
You will quite often USE more
than that because you will need a separate ISBN for your eBook, another for your paperback, a third for
hardcover, and any
other formats or editions (like an audiobook) you may come up with in the future.
The collector's
hardcover book with dust jacket includes the more
than 370 full color plates of the artworks of Alexander Calder, David Hockney, Peter Blake, Joseph Cornell, Willem De Kooning, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Linder, Morris Louis, Claus Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Victor Vasarely, and Andy Warhol among many
others.