Sentences with phrase «price of a trade paperback»

Fortunately, you can get the whole series for less than the price of a trade paperback, and comparable to the price of many mass market paperbacks!

The price of trade paperbacks tends to have a narrower price difference between the e-book and traditional book versions.

The counterbalance is that you can dig through thousands of comic books for the price of a trade paperback every month.

Marvel Unlimited, the comic book publisher's all - you - can - read subscription service, lets superhero fans page through decades of Marvel Comics history for the price of a trade paperback per month.

Not exact matches

Says Maria Harrison, whose trade paperback of less than 200 pages was priced at $ 24.95, «Why would anyone want to buy an overpriced book from an unknown author when they can buy a wonderful book by a best - selling writer for less than ten dollars?

95 % of all books (in history) were sold in the middle end, the mass area where consumers got used to paying a certain price for a mass market paperback, a different price for a trade paperback, and yet a higher, but normal price for a hardback.

Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland Mia Gallagher (New Island Books 2016, Trade paperback) 485 pages, cover price n / a Well now.

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.

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.

So like dominoes, the major publishers are falling in line to continue their old publishing strategy of initial high price (hardback), price drop 1 (trade paperback) and price drop 2 (mass market paperback for digital books.

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 ebook - only.

These aren't usually published by independent authors and publishers, as they are sold via supermarkets and corner stores and used by trade publishers to release long running, top selling books at reduced prices of your typical trade paperback.

All 12 of mine were paperback, 8 mmp and 4 trade (which had a higher price point).

In some cases, the agency model dictates that the price of an e-book is higher than its corresponding trade paperback edition, despite the significant savings in printing and distributing costs offered by e-books.

HarperCollins is doing something pretty amazing, they are going to offer the trade paperback, which costs $ 14.99, at the price of $ 8.99 just to schools.

Mostly I wait for remaindered stock or, at worst, reduced price trade paperbacks, which seem to be about the best bargain given the high cost of mass market paper backs now.

Otherwise, I'll keep on going to half price books precisely because the price points aren't there for electronic publishing to make it worth my time, and I honestly don't have the funds to pay for more than a handful of trade paperback book editions.

Where other categories of fiction are pricing ebooks at trade paperback prices at best, or above hardback prices at worst (who in Hel's Misty Halls do they justify charging more for an ebook than for a hardback?)

The lower cost of e-books have made waiting for mass - market reprints of higher - priced hardcover or trade paperbacks increasingly obsolete.

As MMPBs are phased out in favor of trade paperbacks, I see e-book prices rising to match that void.

Trade paperback is an industry term that lets readers know the book is made of higher quality materials, produced in a larger size and offered at a higher price than mass - market paperbacks.

To recap, a hardcover nets the publisher $ 6.25 (or 25 % of the cover price), a trade paperback $ 4.46 (34.3 %), a mass - market paperback $ 2.61 (32.6 %), and an e-book $ 6.73 (51.8 %).

Think about it: If a hardcover is selling dozens of copies per day at $ 35 or if a trade paperback is selling frequently at $ 25, then $ 9.99 is an enticing e-book price.

The $ 14.99 price for Jemisin is the retail cost of the trade paperback but you can get that trade paperback apparently for $ 6.

When a book becomes a film, for instance, the hardcover, trade paperback and mass market paperback editions of that book may all end up back on the bestseller list at the same time, despite the mass market being the cheapest (and the e-book too — that's one time where the e-book price may be raised again because they know people will pay it.)

While e-book sales have been leveling off as they absorbed the replacement audience for mass market paperbacks — because e-book prices are cheap in mass market territory — the sector of e-books that have been selling the best are the first - run new bestsellers — the ones with the highest e-book prices initially (although those prices come down over time, just like a paperback edition and the e-book prices are lower than hardcover and trade paper usually.)

You realize that's less than 10 % of the cover price of a trade hardback and about 5 % of the cover price of a mass market paperback in the USA?