Sentences with phrase «physical costs of a book»

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If we were to offer physical books, the cost of all of the necessary details would have to be passed on to you, our customer.

While it's unlikely that the e-reader will replace physical books altogether, their low cost, light weight and broad selection of content have made them immensely popular.

Sure, there's file setup and editing and cover art, but there are none of the costs associated with an actual, physical book.

As it stands, libraries budget to purchase physical books for their shelves, and DPLA wants to ensure that there are no higher costs associated with providing the ebook edition of the book.

But when I could only get physical books, I purchased fewer of them because of the cost.

As you'll recall, my two main goals were getting physical copies of my book directly into the hands of readers and keeping my costs down.

One of the most common questions about going digital vs. physical with books is cost.

a cell phone screen, a tablet screen, a computer screen, a Big Screen TV, etc, etc, watching, DVD's, Blu - Rays, YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, ROKU, Apple TV, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Pinterest, etc, etc...... when you lose that many potential book readers to watching you can't sustain a high cost physical retail book chain with all that overhead particularly when that retail space is overbuilt in declining sections of a city.

So in order to get an attractively priced, copy - edited book, available to bookstores for a standard 40 % discount, with full returnability with the copyright registered, an ISBN provided... and all the physical elements of a standard paperback book — cover copy, cover art, etc, it will cost you $ 4539 at HHorizons.

:) If you're talking about a traditionally published book, the actual cost of materials for a physical copy is about $ 3.00.

The biggest houses may shrink some as ebooks grow, but the higher margins involved and the lower overhead costs associated with producing and shipping physical books may actually increase publishers» margins and having money to pay authors in the form of advances will remain a significant advantage for publishers in pursuing the biggest authors.

The actual physical costs of a print book — paper, printing, binding, packaging, warehousing, etc. — are less than 10 % of the cover price, even in small volumes, and drop to less than a dollar per book for large volume titles such as bestsellers.

Jay, I respect your point of view, but I think your a bit naive if you really think that ebooks cost only 10 % less then physical books to produce and distribute, but thats your opinion, I am assuming its due to information your publisher gave you to prove how bad they are being screwed by lower ebook prices.

At the present time, traditionally published authors still only receive the standard 15 % royalty, identical to what they would earn on hardcover sales; the chairman explained the historical rationale for the 15 % paid out to authors, which was based on the assumption that the cost of producing the physical book was about 70 % of the sales price and the remaining 30 % was to be split equally between the author and the publisher.

There is still a distribution cost associated with an ebook if a publisher is selling through a retailer like Amazon and it is often more than the cost of distribution of a physical book.

The prices for some of the e-books cost the same as going into a book store and buying a physical copy.

Looking at it from the outside it seems the only likely reason for making the ebook cost more than a print book is to push readers towards physical books instead of digital.

E-book prices need to (and should) drop substantially: When the cost of an incremental sale is near - zero, publishers have no business charging physical - book prices.

2) Were there any adjustments to the publisher's share of the gross revenues (e.g. the cost of printing, shipping, and storing physical books; salaries / benefits to editors, copyeditors, designers, etc; rent)?

When it was possible for a book to be an object that existed solely online, with no necessary printing costs and physical placement in bookstores, many people who had always dreamed of publishing a book did just that, by themselves, using the new technology available.

The problem is that printed books are becoming a thing of the past because, unlike digital media, printed books require paper and ink and presses that are real physical things that cost money.

A useful debate guide with a balanced view of the topic, this book in the Video Games and Society series discusses the conflicting research regarding physical and social costs and benefits associated with gaming, as well as how gaming can become an addiction.

Certainly, physical books still have to be shipped to various retailers, but even that is a much faster and more cost effective process than it was in the early days of large - scale publishing.

But manufacturing and other physical costs are only a small part of the cost of books and music

If a hardcover book costs $ 26, including paper and ink and all the physical processes of publishing, why on earth would an e-book cost the same — or more, in the case of Ken Follett's «Fall of Giants» or James Patterson's «Don't Blink»?

While many authors give away digital versions of free books to reduce the cost, the amazing authors and books featured on this page are giving away good, old - fashioned physical books for completely free, and in most cases paying for shipping as well!

As far as readers are concerned, the incremental cost to produce more copies of an e-book is zero.So the readers expect an eBook to be priced less than a physical book.

If you want your book to be available in physical form, the advantage of print on demand is that you don't have all the issues of set - up cost, inventory management, storage and distribution.

The initial cost to self - publish a book varies from zero (to electronically self - publish with services like Barnes & Noble's NOOK Press or Amazon.com's CreateSpace or some print - on - demand book services), to tens of thousands of dollars (if you want lots of physical books with all the «extras» like book marketing and publicity).

That's in addition to the cost of purchasing and sending physical copies (if you choose to run a contest for print books).

She said: «Why would people pay the same for a virtual book, with none of the graphic design, physical presence, production and distribution costs accepted as part of the printed kind?

- Paper - Printing - Transporting the physical object - and the cost of storing the book goes way down.

Of course there are costs for creating any format book, print or e. My point is that the physical element costs, including paper, print, binding and returns completely go away with ebooks.

Even if gross margins are similar to physical sales, digital sales would not incur as high a fulfillment cost, which was 8.3 % of overall revenue in F» 08; we estimate fulfillment cost on Kindle books is in the 2 - 3 % range.

«All ebooks will cost less than the physical books», Kessel told us as he detailed the launch of the new Amazon Kindle store in the UK, before adding: «Customers believe that electronic books should be cheaper than physical books and we agree».

Are you battling the escalating costs of mailing physical books and sacrificing your content to the used book market?

The cost to create a book in digital form is now very tiny and that means if you don't want to create a physical manifestation of that book the capital required is negligible.

In my opinion, there SHOULD be a massive gulf between eBook and physical book pricing, but not for anything to do with «costs» of the two media types, but because of the VALUE.

With regards to the relative production price of an ebook vs a physical book it is not just the physical manufacture and shipping that plays in, it is also the relative cost of the retail vs e-retail system.

-- the cost of buying an e-reading device, a preference for the experience of reading a physical book, and a 31 % chunk of the surveyed sample saying they «don't see a need» to read ebooks.

The real costs of making the physical book object are borne by the first - purchasers; the value of the contents is then to some extent seen in the resale price.

The second equilibria point is the «ebook - first» market - where the cost of printing, marketing, distribution, and physical sales are borne by consumers of physical books.

Now that we've spent 5 years paying you about $ 15 per ebook we sell for $ 10, just to get customers used to expecting to pay only $ 10 for an ebook, regardless of how expensive the physical book costs, would you mind accepting only $ 3.50?

eBook Exam and Desk Copies avoid the cost to the educator and saves the valuable time of waiting for a physical book to arrive by mail.

Incidentally, nothing I just wrote should be read as dismissing the possibility of Amazon becoming a monopsonist in the physical goods market (whether those goods are books, clothing, or anything else Amazon sells), where the cost barriers to entry are much higher.

Storing ebooks on a server has a cost, but so does running a huge warehouse of physical books.

It's a bit puzzling that Publishers talk up the various costs of producing eBooks (and claim there are no savings over physical books) and at the same time produce eBooks plagued by poor formatting and numerous errors.

Customers have long asked for an opportunity to acquire their eBooks at a discount when they already own the physical copy and if Waterstones was to start selling bundles priced roughly equal to the cost of a hardcover book it would give them a major edge in marketing alone.

Royalty Rate x (Amazon price - taxes and Delivery Costs) = Royalty By «price - match» we mean where we sell the Digital Book in one or more of the Available Sales Territories at a price (net of taxes) that is below the List Price to match a third party's sales price for any digital or physical edition of the Digital Book, or to match our sales price for any physical edition of the Digital Book, in any one of the Available Sales Territories.

This was particularly important for many consumers as the cost eBooks has remained comparable with physical books despite the elimination of manufacture and distribution cost.