Most of them weren't, they were produced by specialized publishers using digital printing and print on demand to make rare and
out of print books available.
Not exact matches
While the autobiography
of Ernest and Julio Gallo, Our Story, is
out of print, Bill Gates's
book, The Road Ahead (Penguin USA, 800-253-6476, 1995, $ 15.95), is still
available.
They started
out to reprint important works either
out of print or
available in cheaply made and / or expensive copies but then saw the need to publish new
books as well.
I have just noticed that some
of the hardback
book are not currently
available on Amazon for your toddler reading, hopefully it is just
out of print issue, and will be
available soon.
The plan is complex but, in a nutshell, search engine giant Google intends to scan and make
available perhaps a million or more
books that are
out of print but still in copyright.
They scan
out of print editions
of old
books and make them
available digitally.
Amazon -
available reports and articles were excluded, as was any source listed as «
out of print» — only published,
available books were included.
There are many
out -
of -
print books that could be made
available with a low - cost
printing / binding system.
So, the reason for buying an ebook even if it's
available to borrow from the library is the same reason you would want to buy a
print book rather than check it
out — you want to re-read it or you want to have your copy — whether physically on the bookshelf in your home or on the shelf
of your ereader.
My local library has OverDrive, and I never use it, because they treat e-
books like
print books: The library buys a limited number
of copies, and each
book can only be checked
out by one patron at a time, so when I go to look for a
book, it's never
available.
When using major POD providers, your
book is automatically
available and for sale through important channels on demand; when paying for an offset
print run, you then have the challenge
of figuring
out your distribution methods, and you'll bear the responsibility
of fulfilling orders — unless your printer offers additional services and can handle it for you.
«Our goal with Kindle is to make every
book, ever published, in
print or
out of print,
available in less than 60 seconds,» said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President
of Kindle Content.
No matter how many or few you sell, you can keep your
book alive and
available long past the point at which a «traditional» house would have taken it
out of print.
Whether it is one
of the big six houses or one
of the dozens
of often cash - strapped small press, the thing is that you wrote the
book and apart from having it «professionally edited and hopefully not changed too much by the editor, then
printed, it's all down to you to make your
book stand
out among the millions
of books currently
available.
When those
books go
out of print with DAW, I certainly plan on self - publishing them myself in order to keep my backlist
available.
Fill
out EVERY
available space on your
book profiles (including summaries, back cover, cover image, page number, type
of print, publisher, etc)
And often they have to do very small
print runs, so there's a good chance your
book will sell
out of its
printing very quickly and there will be no
books available.
Love collecting rare
books: Bookscout by John Dunning After years
out of print, this one's now
available as an eBook — though it's short enough to be considered a short story.
And this year I am starting two ePublishing companies with two
of my clients to make
out -
of -
print vintage romance (JoyrideBooks.com) and children's
books (AmbushBooks.com)
available to a new generation
of readers.
Giveaways are only
available for
print books — so you have to have copies
of the
books printed (easy enough
of you have it on CreateSpace or another
print - on - demand service), and you have to post the
book out, so there is the cost
of postage to consider.
If you miss a volume, previously published volumes never go
out of print and are
available from your favorite
book retailer.
But with online
print and ebook sales, a
book might never go
out of print under the «not
available for sale» definition, and online sales — no matter how limited — can keep the
book active under the «x number
of sales per royalty period» definition.
So as eBook sales continue to steadily increase every year, it's important for the savvy Independent authors
out there having both the
print and eBook versions
of their
book available, that you're aware
of the additional considerations necessary to have your
book cover work as best it can in the confines
of online retail shelves and eReader devices.
That
book went
out of print shortly before I loaned it, and only recently became
available in
print again.
This allows avid readers to order a title from a vendor that may be
out -
of -
print or not
available in ebook format, have the physical
book shipped directly to 1DollarScan for digitization, and have the file sent directly to the purchasing consumer for use on Kindle or Nook tablets or iPad.
From authors who want to have their work
available once the physical edition has gone
out of print and the rights have reverted, to those whose
books we believe in and feel passionately about but couldn't sell — oftentimes, after approaching 20 or more houses — we realized that part
of our job as agents in this new publishing milieu is to facilitate these works being made
available as e-
books and through POD and other editions,» from the DGLM blog.
This also means that the
book can be
available for an extended period
of time, instead
of the
book being «
out of print» after a
print run has been depleted.
Independently publishing allows me to assure that my
books will not fall
out of print and as an early e-reader, I well understand the value
of making DRM - free ebooks readily
available.
Today, most
books are
available in ebook format as well as
print, and many old, long -
out -
of -
print titles have also been resurrected in ebook form.
Today, most publishers make most new
books available in at least one electronic format, and many sell direct to readers from their own websites, but they're taking their time making backlist and
out -
of -
print titles
available this way.
E-books only make up a small percentage
of the total sales in the publishing world so, you're definitely going to — you're missing
out on sales if you don't have a
print book available.
Key European stakeholders have approved a «ground - breaking» set
of principles for digitising and making publicly
available out -
of -
print books and journals.
Too,
books go
out of print all the time, but I can find used copies
of out -
of -
print bound
books; I'd be
out of luck if an e-book was no longer
available.
It makes sense to me that for the first
print run publishers stick largely with the current model but use POD on the backlist; that could have tremendous benefits to author and pub house both if done correctly (not to mention readers, who'd be able to order older
books by a favourite writer and not face the flipping frustrating «
out of print» or «no stock
available» options.
This also means that your
book can be
available for an extended period
of time, instead
of going «
out of print» after a
print run has been depleted.
Where in
print,
books were as likely to be
out of print ten years after publication as they were to be in
print, now, with ebooks and digital publishing, they will remain
available and competing forever.
I also love everyone else's Kindles — and Amazon's marketing and delivery system — because they've enabled the sale
of my
books and are making so many
out -
of -
print books available.
The others are
out -
of -
print editions, millions
of titles
available in the public domain like Google
Books, and digital formats licensed
out through major publishers including Harper Collins.
Still, they have the potential to confuse, mislead, and defraud, since your
book may appear to be
out of print and
available only at an inflated price, if at all.
Note that you will still get
books out of print, as long as used copies are
available.
I'd like to add that when writers are scoping
out small presses to query, check the quality
of their
books, the covers, and if they're
available in
print and eReaders.
For those
of you who don't want to shell
out $ 1,000 on eBay for Seth's
out -
of -
print Margin
of Safety and have only recently become aware that the Internet is
available on computers, the Zero Hedge article includes a link to a scanned copy
of the
book,
available at a price even an anarcho - capitalist could embrace.
But when the
printing press came
out and
books were widely
available then tons
of people learned how to read.
This EXTREMELY limited price point is ONLY
available for the first backers
of the VIDEO GAMES LIVE: LEVEL 3 project, once these are gone additional reward packages may be made
available for $ 1,500)- $ 500 tier PLUS the COMPLETE heavy duty presentation style
printed Video Games Live conductors scores from Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross, the Tetris Opera AND Castlevania signed by Tommy Tallarico, PLUS signed first page conductor scores from Halo and Destiny (Marty O'Donnell & Mike Salvatori), Monkey Island (Michael Land, Peter McConnell, Clint Bajakian), World
of Warcraft, StarCraft II and Diablo III (Russell Brower, Jason Hayes, Glenn Stafford, Derek Duke), Silent Hill (Akira Yamaoka), Castlevania (Kinuyo Yamishita), Metal Gear Solid 3 «Snake Eater» (Norihiko Hibino), God
of War (Gerard Marino), Journey (Austin Wintory), BioShock (Garry Schyman), Earthworm Jim & Advent Rising (Tommy Tallarico), Civilization IV (Christopher Tin), DOTA 2 (Tim Larkin, Jason Hayes), Resident Evil 5 (Wataru Hokoyama), Command & Conquer (Frank Klepacki), Uncharted 2 (Greg Edmonson), Crysis 2 (Inon Zur), Assassin's Creed II (Jesper Kyd), EverQuest II (Laura Karpman) and our Classic Arcade Medley signed by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, PLUS a 2 hour exclusive Twitch.TV interactive video conference Q&A and hang -
out session with no less than 10
of the game composers listed above, PLUS a special Video Games Live exclusive version
of a Piano Arrangement sheet music
book SIGNED by the Grammy Nominated Journey composer Austin Wintory, PLUS your name and picture (or the name and picture
of your choosing) to be enshrined on our website and Facebook page as a special LEET!
Fiona Banner has produced two editions for The Multiple Store, TABLE STOPS (which is directly connected to her large size sculpture series
of Full Stops) and
Book: 1/1 (a
print that is now nearly sold
out) both
available for sale on this website.
With a childhood surrounding a love
of comic
books, video games and pop culture, Doyle loves to pick
out the locations and places made famous by films as epic as Star Wars, Pulp Fiction and Blade Runner — recreating them through bold and colourful illustrations; 10
of which will be on show and
available as limited edition
prints during a special «collectors preview»
of the show next month.
Some Revue Noire
books are
out of print and now only
available in limited editions boxes.
Many rare,
out of print and self - published
books are
available in a section
of the gallery that pays homage to A Photographer's Place.
It allows Google to scan and make
available online many
out -
of -
print but still - copyrighted
books.