Sentences with phrase «printed volumes of books»

Francis Crick, the Nobel laureate and biophysicist, is quoted as having estimated that «the amount of information contained in the chromosomes of a single fertilized human egg is equivalent to about a thousand printed volumes of books, each as large as a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica.»

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The production of these volumes is more like the patient and loving knitting of a fine garment than the printing of a book.

This volume, as the title page indicates, comprises three small books on Jesus, the earliest of which was published in 1941 and all of which have been continuously in print for more than a decade.

Before the publication of this volume, no books and very few printed resources existed for those seeking to start a Waldorf parent / child class or playgroup.

In addition to the Carroll and Mozart volumes, Turning the Pages displays the personal notebook of Leonardo da Vinci; the Luttrell Psalter, an illuminated book created in the early 1300s that offers fascinating depictions of medieval life; a sixteenth - century medical anatomy text filled with exquisite engravings; the first atlas of Europe, assembled by Mercator in the 1570s; the dazzling Lindisfarne Gospels, the «pinnacle of Anglo - Saxon art»; and the oldest printed «book» in the world (actually a scroll), the Diamond Sutra, published in China in 868 and discovered in near - pristine condition in 1900.

Her most fun, and slightly paradoxical, tips involve preserving your precious volumes and demolishing others to use in a host of lit - nerd crafting projects — including a ladder shelf, a lighted book box, a bed headboard constructed with tessellated book spines and linens printed with your favorite text passages.

Hachette reported that in 2015 market trends have been reversed in the US and UK, with a rebound in volumes of printed books to the detriment of e-books, due to new contract terms with Amazon.

Publishers can manufacture books in any quantity, from a single copy to a high - volume print run, regardless of where a book is in its life cycle.

Nowadays, with nearly 30 years of seeing my byline attached to things I've written and having authored a 3 volume encyclopedia and a history book, I still get that same ethereal shiver every time I look at my name in print or online because I know that having it there represents the faith an editor has placed in my abilities as a writer, or researcher, or reporter...

The decision to print in volume and distribute to stores will eventually be made based on the results of Internet - only book launches where readers preorder books directly from publishers.

They also act as the publisher's (your) printer, printing as few or as many books as you need at the lowest wholesale cost based on the volume of books that you're purchasing.

Adding its own total to the number of print books sold in 2015, the Bookseller estimates that there were 276.2 m print and digital books sold in 2015, 2.9 % up on its 2014 estimate, with digital accounting for 30.9 % of all volume sales, down from 32.7 %.

In the first 10 months of 2012, printed book sales were down 3.5 % year on year in volume terms and 5.5 % by value.

That in turn has been helping some good authors, some published by large houses as well, get works into the hands of readers who might never have had access to those books because they would not sell in high enough volumes via traditional print ways.

The combined $ 2.60 billion total of print sales of manga from both compiled book volumes and magazines saw a 9.3 % decrease from last year.

The print / bind / warehouse / distribute portion for paper volumes is about * 10 % * of the cost of the average book from a major trade publisher.

Digital book printing (short run book printing) allows you to print a smaller volume of books.

The most efficient method for printing a large volume of books and the most cost effective.

Some authors prefer this type of publishing since this is a more economical optional rather than printing large volume of copies of the book.

The print book will follow soon, and the second print book bundle (containing volume 3 & 4) will come out by the end of the month.

The offerings of books from both Yen Press and Viz Media was nice but it's hard to get excited about volumes that have already been available in English in print from these companies for a long time, and are still easily available today.

If you miss a volume, previously published volumes never go out of print and are available from your favorite book retailer.

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.

The term short - run printing refers to digitally printing a small volume of books (say 20 or 200).

We are an experienced publisher of electronic and print books, ready to help you convert your manuscript or your print volume (whether in - or out - of - print) into a vibrant, exciting digital book.

Everyone in the publishing world knows that print books tend to peak in the last three months of the year and this is where bookstores all over the world tend to see the greatest volume of sales.

With the sheer volume of print edition content available via the retailer, determining an author's number of total book sales by deciphering the ranking is simply not possible.

There is no secondhand market for e-books like there is for print volumes; temporary licenses lets students save on books they have no intention of keeping.

In addition to the William Morris biography there was a book on the Pre-Raphaelite painter Holman Hunt, a volume of Edward Burne - Jones prints, and two volumes of the catalog of the annual exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Arts - 1852 and 1853.

Fowlie was speaking to the fact that audiobooks continue to have a much higher price point than both ebooks and print books, and that audiobooks tend to sell well given the low volume of content available to audiobook fans.

When indie publishing evangelist and best selling author J.A. Konrath got the rights back to the first six books of his Hyperion - published Jack Daniels series, he asked if we could give each of the volumes a unified, premium ebook and print interior design that could carry forward into new books featuring featuring the seasoned, brash Chicago detective at the heart of his series.

For years, librarians have been struggling with the many print volumes from the Books in Print stable — crucial to our work but hard to read and out of date as soon as they land on our dprint volumes from the Books in Print stable — crucial to our work but hard to read and out of date as soon as they land on our dPrint stable — crucial to our work but hard to read and out of date as soon as they land on our desks.

Other options also include printing low volumes of books on demand which you market and sell after the fact.

The second category is books that are in print and still commercially viable, these account for 10 % of the volumes in the world's libraries.

eBook Versions offer authors world wide fixed fee - based production of print - on - demand paperbacks from # 295.00, and of ebooks in Kindle and epub formats from # 95.00, from typewritten manuscripts, text file documents or previously printed volumes, with guaranteed listing of paperback titles by Amazon online stores serving the USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain; and of ebook titles by the 13 Amazon Kindle Stores, 51 iTunes iBookstores, Kobo Books and our partner trade distribu... more

Classic works back in print in October include the Strugatsky Brothers» most popular work in Russia, Monday Starts on Saturday; enhanced new editions of Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, e-book editions of three novels by Samuel R. Delany and a trilogy by Jeffrey Ford, Penguin Classics» The Best of Richard Matheson, the first volume of Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic League stories,

The forthcoming releases include the BLANC ET NOIR art book, a special high - end volume to be published under the Art of Shonen Jump imprint collecting the work of the famed manga artist Takeshi Obata (DEATH NOTE) and set to be released in a limited print run of only 10,000 copies.

So, if you actually encompass all of the different publishing models for e-books now, their rise has been absolutely spectacular, and in sheer volume (ebooks) are absolutely dominating print books, they haven't declined at all.

This cuts out a lot of factors when compared to book printing, this can also channel many countries across the world and if you're a niche author this may be a good option due to the volume of people.

The bookstore chain released the first edition of the annotated diary in the form of a printed book in eight volumes in 2002, selling 200 copies and winning high praise.

Those 3 - in - 1 books are only intended to go up to three volumes as an «introduction'to new readers or help to fill in old out of print portions.

But when value, rather than volume, is considered, a different picture emerges: on the estimate that ebooks sold for an average # 4.35, the Bookseller calculates that digital books earned around # 381.5 m last year, giving a combined print and ebook total of # 1.9 bn, up 7.1 % on the previous year.

Print books were still by far the most popular medium, however, with # 2.2 bn spent on them in 2013 -4 % lower by value and volume (323m) in comparison to 2012, mainly due to the phenomenal sales of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy in 2012.

With the cost - saving decrease in printing these days, the sheer volume of these books going to print is both a surprise and impressive.

Volume 57 was the first volume to hold the record for all books in Japan, since its 3 - million - copy first printing topped Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix's 2.9 miVolume 57 was the first volume to hold the record for all books in Japan, since its 3 - million - copy first printing topped Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix's 2.9 mivolume to hold the record for all books in Japan, since its 3 - million - copy first printing topped Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix's 2.9 million.

- Our favorite travel writers will sign their book to you, and sprinkle commentary throughout: everything they * didn't * say in the official version: - Don George «The Way of Wanderlust,» Julia Cooke «The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba,» Rolf Potts «Vagabonding,» Lavinia Spalding «Writing Away,» Elisabeth Eaves «Wanderlust,» Marcia DeSanctis «100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go,» and Alex Sheshunoff «A Beginner's Guide to Paradise» - PLUS, the print volume + «Letter to a Stranger» audiobook.

The Wolf Among Us is set as a prequel to the monthly comic book series it is inspired by called Fables which was created by Bill Willingham and published by DC Comics» Vertigo; beginning its first print in May 2002 with collected editions available via paperback containing multiple editions such as the first paperback titled Fables: Legends in Exile released on April 25th 2003 including Fables 1 through 5 as well as a new story called A Wolf in the Fold and deluxe editions available via hardback with the first volume released on September 30th 2009 comprising of Fables 1 through 10, alongside many more releases in both paperback and hardback form.

Oily - iridescent black rectangles of lithographic ink are printed on the wall, their dimensions determined by the volume of ink required to produce the signature book of various authoritarian despots.

Schumann's talk at Artspace was partly in anticipation of the upcoming independent art book fair at Artspace in Sydney in September 11 - 13 called Volume 2015 which Artspace is presenting in partnership with Perimeter Books (Melbourne) and Printed Matter Inc http://www.volumeartbookfair.com/

In 2014, Williams was the first artist to receive the Photography Catalogue of the Year, presented by the Paris Photo — Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, for the two volumes specially designed and published on the occasion of his touring survey, The Production Line of Happiness (exhibition catalogue) and Printed in Germany (artist book).