Sentences with phrase «price as a hardcover»

The really big news is Google starting open war with Amazon by starting to sell ebooks, not to mention telling publishers they can sell ebooks for the same price as hardcover books.

Traditional publishers seem to think an ebook will sell at the same price as a hardcover.

Not exact matches

I totally understand the self publishing route choice, but should you be wooed by any of the large corporations and move to live in a cramped city and give up paradise, I for one, would pay the ridiculous prices to buy a hardcover as often as you produce them.

Book publishers have traditionally sold hardcover books to retailers for about half their cover price and let the retailers discount as they wished.

By high pricing on ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive hardcover over to the ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as well.

Similarly, the hardcover version of the book, The Chronicles of Downton Abbey which is sold along with the TV series also enjoys about # 3 price benefit for the hardcover version which is sold at # 12.99 as an ebook.

pdf, the same price as for a hardcover).

But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.

An average paperback is usually priced in the range of $ 4 — 7, while a hardcover is around $ 11, as opposed to # 14 ($ 23) in the UK.

In all of these scenarios, the marginal cost of production is not going to be even $ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over $ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last big brick Harry Potter novels cost a teeny bit more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much more), meaning that if we're talking marginal cost of production as the difference in price between a paperback and an ebook, we're not talking about a huge difference in price.

Traditional publishers helped indie publishers a lot in this very early period by deciding that they didn't like electronic books and priced them up near hardcover levels, as if an ebook was a specialty item.

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.

On Mike Shatzkin's blog, he speculated that the publishers» decision to delay the e-book versions of some major upcoming titles isn't «a battle to rescue hardcover books from price perception issues caused by inexpensive ebooks» so much as it is about «wresting control of their ebook destinies back from Amazon.»

Hardcover sales in adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebooHardcover sales in adult trade fiction and non-fiction combined increased to a total of $ 1.5 billion in 2013; ebooks in fiction - only sold almost as much as hardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and eboohardcover for both fiction and non-fiction for adults — despite the typically lower price point of ebooks compared to hardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and eboohardcover and paperback — a fact that speaks to the need to revamp the strategy by which publishers perceive digital - first and ebook - only.

The book is published by Random imprint Doubleday, which means that Amazon controls price and discounting in the Kindle Store just as brick - and - mortar booksellers control price and discounting for the hardcover edition.

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Will the book's market prefer a high - end hardcover edition if a book is designed as gift item, despite the high retail price it might command?

Now that we know Lulu readers are most likely to purchase and give hardcover books that fall below the $ 30 price point as they share their holiday cheer, let's take a closer look at how gift - givers decide which books to give as gifts.

So why exactly do so many e-book readers think that they are entitled to an e-book edition in their preferred format at the same time as the hardcover for less than half the price?

Collecting eighteen short stories, The Crater will be released as a limited edition, 2000 copy run with a hardcover finish, colour inserts and a current price of $ 34.95 / US.

Publishers fought and won the ability to raise eBook prices, sometimes charging as much for digital copies as hardcover print versions.

Why pay a price almost as much as a hardcover for an ebook?

I just bought a hardcover of Stephen Pinker's latest book because it was about the same price as an ebook; I would have bought through Kobo if Kobo offered the right price point (they didn't, but Indigo sure did).

At that time, publishers made a killing on frontlist e-book sales as compared to frontlist hardcover sales — at the author's expense — because, as compared to today, the price of e-books was relatively high.

As I searched for the publisher's list price, too lazy to get up and pick up my copy from the other room, I found that Barnes & Noble lists the book at $ 16.83 for the hardcover and $ 11.84 for the Nookbook.

A recent notable exception was Walter Issacsson» Steve Jobs biography which was offered as an e-book at the same time, albeit at the same price, as the hardcover edition (in Japan the biography was published in two parts with a combined price of $ 50 compared to a street price of about $ 17 in the US).

Because of lower e-book prices, the publishers don't do as well as they used to, though they still come out ahead when consumers choose e-books over hardcovers.

Hardcover books are good business for mainstream publishers because they can set a much higher price for them — so they usually come out first to force buyers to pay as much as possible, then eventually they bring out the ebooks and paperbacks.

The Barnes & Noble Rediscovers project will reissue noteworthy works of history, literature, philosophy, and science as redesigned, specially priced hardcovers.

For the most part, RH prices to library wholesalers for titles available in print as new hardcovers are now set in the range of $ 65 - $ 85.

They have a tendency to buy longer books — as a «value» thing, an attempt to justify the price tags on new hardcover books to readers.

If you had asked included «ebooks should cost the same as hardcovers» and «ebooks should cost the same as paperbacks» and «ebooks should cost less than paperbacks», I think you would have gotten more specific, useful data about what book buyers think regarding ebook prices.

Allowing publishers to charge the same price for digital editions as they do for new hardcover books is just wrong.

My understanding about the kindle pricing is that amazon actually takes a hit to mark certain kindle books (that are otherwise still in hardcover) down to 9.99 as marketing for the kindle.

Mass market paperback sales have declined significantly over the years, with loss of non-bookshop sales outlets, but hardcover sales have risen dramatically as the price differential has fallen.

Mr. Turvey said that Google would probably allow publishers to charge consumers the same price for digital editions as they do for new hardcover versions.

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).

On the one hand, charging the same price (or more) for an e-book as a hardcover seems ludicrous, but at the same time, the publishing industry has long struggled to survive, as there is little if any money in books these days.

Under the retail model, publishers set a «list price» for e-books (usually the same $ 25 or so they set for the hardcover), and retailers like Amazon pay them a fixed percentage of that price, such as 50 %.

Typically, prices for new titles range from around $ 26, or the same as a hardcover, to the discounted $ 9.99 that Amazon charges for most of its Kindle titles.

After all, before the switch, Random House was the only large publisher still using the retail model (the same model used for printed books), where Random House received 50 % of the «list price,» which was often the same as the hardcover price, and Amazon could discount the e-book as much as they wanted without cutting into the royalty.

Although they received the full wholesale value of each book sold by Amazon, publishers didn't want $ 9.99 to catch on as the new default price for e-books, especially since this was so much lower than hardcovers.

Hachette, as the publisher, would set prices for ebooks in a similar fashion to pricing for hardcover books.

I'd be prepared to wager that consumers are more than happy to choose an e-book over a more expensive hardcover, but I question whether that preference holds up when the price point is the same for either format, as with agency - priced * paperbacks.

Amazon usually charged lower prices for a hardcover than the brick - and - mortar store» (as B&N on - line sometimes did).

What the big - 6 seem to be doing as a result is pricing ebooks in a way that attempts to protect hardcover revenues.

I'm sure they still exist although I'm not sure if Amazon makes them any interesting now, it was how I got into Lord of the Rings, as I ended up paying some $ 1.25 for it rather than the price of $ 30 for the same (hardcover) edition.

Never mind that publishers have been selling hardcovers just as long as they've been selling paperbacks at different prices and nobody freaked out about it ever.

Under the wholesale pricing model that had been in effect for ebooks for over two years, the suggested list price for a new release Kindle book was usually the same as the suggested list price for a hardcover.

While we were on the line I even experimentally purchased the book to see what price I was charged as their representative said they would refund the price if I was charged USD45 — which I was, so they refunded me the money and cancelled the sale (the hardcover was much cheaper than USD45!).