Sentences with phrase «paperback than ebook»

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I wish that Logos would become competitive here and sell their digital books for significantly less than the paperback books, and maybe even do some sort of price matching with Amazon Kindle eBooks.

You are right that production and distribution costs per unit are less for ebooks than for paperbacks, but authors have the same 2 % to 12.5 % earnings of the list price of the book.

When I look through the Kindle store and see ebooks priced higher than the paperback and hardcover, it seems to me that they are trying to push readers back to that more traditional medium.

Who wants to buy... I'm sorry, «lease»... an ebook for more than the cost of the paperback edition?

The numbers speak for themselves: So far, the trilogy has sold more than 250,000 copies, in both paperbacks and eBooks.

Ebooks cause no storage costs and very small delivery costs, can be sold with fewer intermediaries... they should be significantly cheaper than paperbacks, all the time.

Then often the ebook price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then than the price for the hardcover book, later when you can buy the paperback it is usually cheaper than the ebook, because that was priced after the hardcover and since book prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.

This is why a new ebook almost costs as much as a hardcover and is normally more expensive than a paperback.

You can find books, where the price for the ebook is actually higher than for the paperback, so why should someone buy an inferior product (in terms of ownership)?

I would pay the same for an ebook as a paperback, but I resent having to pay more for the ebook than the paperback.

I agree with Arphaxad but would like to add that I can many times buy a paperback book cheaper than the eBook.

It's made creating ebooks and the few paperbacks I've worked easier than any free program I've ever used.

You might have noticed that eBooks tend to cost less than paperback books — there's a general consumer expectation that they should be a bit cheaper.

According to Tracy, most of the paperback sales are in trade paperback, rather than the smaller mass - market or pocket edition — those have mostly been replaced by the ebook.

And I don't think I'd pay more than $ 6.99 for an ebook because I believe they're worth less than a paperback for all the reasons I listed above.

With an ebook reader, you can fit your personal library on a thinner - than - paperback - size device — one that's easy to toss in a bag and hold one - handed — and recharge only every few weeks.

In short, the argument that ebook versions of a novel should cost way less than paperback novels due to a lower marginal cost of production simply doesn't match the actual numbers.

I've seen examples on Amazon where the ebooks are actually MORE EXPENSIVE than new paper copies (primarily with trade paperbacks).

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.

I kept the ebook price well below my paperback on the belief I have held as a reader — that the ebook costs a lot less than a paperback to produce and distribute.

Ebooks could have been a transformative sea change in how we read books but instead are nothing more than a second - rate alternative to cheap paperbacks.

In practice, ebooks are regularly priced similarly or even more expensively than their own paperback versions.

An ebook reader is small and light, and less fragile than a paperback.

The titillating trilogy sold more than 30 million copies between March and June, with sales evenly divided between the trade paperback and ebook editions.

I never understood why ebooks are costlier than say a paperback, the cost of printing and paper being removed and the thing that we don't actually own it but just a license to read the eBook.

From must to nice: — fast page turns — paperback size, B - format, A5 (between 13 × 20 and 15 × 22 cm)-- less than 250 g — epub, pdf, and image formats — simple drag and drop USB sync (no proprietary app)-- waterproof, drop proof — fast cold boot — cloud sync — note taking — pressure sensitive sketches — use as external DP / HDMI monitor — web browser good enough for Wikipedia offline — synchronize audio book with ebook

Not only is it easier and less expensive to buy ebooks, but I far prefer reading on my Kindle Paperwhite than reading paperbacks and hard covers.

He was originally going to buy the books but discovered that the ebooks cost only a few dollars less than the paperbacks.

Anna I understand your frustrations with pirated eBooks but the problem is that current system is not fair to most readers either, because of all the restrictions we don't really own eBooks we bought and despite that we have to pay for them more than for paperbacks.

Ebooks generally look worse than your average trade paperback or hardcover book.

I would happily pay even $ 7 for many books, rather than the usual formula of $ 30 or so for a hardback, $ 15 or so for a paperback or ebook (usually only a few percent different.)

There are more than four million ebooks and paperbacks available on Amazon but less than 200,000 audiobooks -LSB-...]

Amazon is now selling more eBooks than they are paperbacks and hardbacks - has that changed the way you work?

Their profit margins on hardcovers are bigger than paperbacks and ebooks, ergo it's in their interest to protect hardcover sales.

But I've passed over quite a few books recently because the ebook was dearer than the paperback and I wanted something to read right then.

Last year Amazon reported that they sold more ebooks than they did paperbacks.

But for two years now I have read almost esclusively ebooks, WHICH I PuRCHASE, often at higher costs than paperbacks, and I read over 100 books a year.

My novels run long, which means my trade paperbacks have always been a lot more expensive than the ebooks.

Do you think being published in ebook format is any less exciting than being published in a real physical book, be it hardback or mass market paperback?

They tend to read really fast and a lot of books, so because the eBook tends to be a little less expensive than the actual paperback or hardcover of the book, they can actually consume the content at a faster rate and you know get their fill of all their favorite authors.

He explained that most indies published ebooks and they sold a lot more than paperbacks.

Frequently even months and years after a book's release, the paperback is less expensive than the ebook.

A little while ago Amazon was crowing because ebook sales for the Kindle were more than doubling hardcover and then paperback sales on the site.

When the paperback comes out the ebook costs more than the paperback.B5 pricing pushed me to libraries and independent authors for ebooks.

Frequently a new ebook will be more expensive than the hardcover or paperback.

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.

Taylor, meanwhile, is selling more ebooks than paperbacks by six to one.

Rather than go on about how it's essentially another version of Createspace publishing with the convenience of one dashboard for ebook and paperback books, I'll give you a point - by - point comparison of the two platforms.

But I'm like you Kait in that I won't pay more for an ebook than I would for a paperback.

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