In the UK last year, more digital books were
published than hardback editions, according to an article by Phillip Jones for The Bookseller.
Not exact matches
It turns out that e-books are not cannibalizing hardcover and trade paperback sales, as publishers» once feared, though mass market paperbacks — which are often
published much later
than their
hardback counterparts, and sold mostly in more traditional retail environments like drugstores — have been negatively impacted.
I mean seriously, if Joe Konrath can make more selling his ebooks at $ 2.99
than he would get in royalties off a $ 24
HARDBACK, there's something seriously wrong with the money side of things in traditional
publishing.
Graves added that, «we can now have access to any print format or digital product in seconds rather
than weeks, this gives us the ability to challenge the traditional route to market, if we choose we can
publish our content digitally first then re-flow into
hardback or paperback book formats for any English - speaking market in seconds.»
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?
This Christmas millions are being spent on persuading us to buy easy - to - read electronic devices like Kindle and iTab, and with more digital books said to have been sold in the US this year
than hardbacks we can all see that a
publishing revolution is on us.
According to the BBC, more
than 500 books in all formats, amongst them 200
hardbacks, are being
published today, including a good helping of comedians» autobiographies, and of course a Jamie Oliver cookbook, Jamie's Great Britain.