Sentences with phrase «publishers as the hardcover»

In fact, the market stability we've seen is reassuring to publishers as the hardcover and paperback businesses were not destroyed as feared.

Not exact matches

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

Given the growing affordability of e-readers as well as current book - buying trends — e-book sales surpassed hardcover sales in the U.S. for the first time in June, according to the Association of American Publishers — a bookless library makes a good deal of sense in the year 2013.

The book is being released by Cemetery Dance, a small publisher, and is currently only available through their website as an e-book — though you can also pre-order the hardcover for a mid-April delivery.

Update: Just got word from Lewis» publisher that the ebook version (including Kindle) will be available the same day as the hardcover.

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.

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.

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.»

I have a non-fiction book coming out in February in hardcover and I'm talking to the publisher about bringing a novel of mine related to the non-fiction book out as an ebook.

Most major publishers offer the same thing when it comes to compensation for eBook royalties... as well as royalties for hardcover and paperback royalties... but it's good you're thinking about the different variables that might be a factor.

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.

I have a platform as the author of several crime novels published in paperback original, but my new publisher is publishing my new work in hardcover using a pseudonym.

As the founder and publisher at Polished Publishing Group (PPG), Kim Staflund works with businesses and individuals around the world to produce truly professional - quality audiobooks, e-books, paperbacks, and hardcovers using the supported self - publishing business model.

The new publisher is seeking $ 3500 for the printing of this collection of Tezuka short stories which it plans to release as 2000 limited edition hardcovers.

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

More and more publishers are recognizing that paperback consumers don't want to be left behind as hardcover and digital fans have access to their favorite titles in a timely manner.

«With consistent high - quality in both soft and hardcover, attentive customer service, printing in Europe and Australia, and global distribution, IngramSpark has been essential for me to make my dream of making a sustainable living as an independent writer and publisher come true.

Although I would argue that traditional publishers» net profit on hardcovers is probably slimmer than it used to be, given the growing costs of warehousing, shipping, and manufacturing even as hardcover book sales are decreasing.

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.

Best guess, based on our previous conversations, is that Bantam (and presumably my British publisher as well) can have the hardcover out within three months of delivery, if their schedules permit.

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.

If you want a unique one that designates you as the publisher, you will need to purchase an ISBN number separately, and you will need one for each version of your book: eBook, paperback, hardcover, audio, etc..

Companies like Amazon with its Kindle are doing the same thing as what publishers are doing with the hardcover version of their book.

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.

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

In the US, the number one adult fiction book of the year (on the Publisher's Weekly list) can sell as much as 5 - 6 million copies in hardcover.

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.

So the books that are sold as physical hardcovers by the traditional publishers tend to dominate the bestseller lists in most genres.

As an indication of how Cheryl's open attitude rubbed off on an eBook evangelist who sometimes sees traditional publishers as obstacles to the advance of digital reading, I want to say that it pleased me greatly to receive a signed hardcover copy of Wild from Oprah's social - media - savvy staff in response to some tweeting I diAs an indication of how Cheryl's open attitude rubbed off on an eBook evangelist who sometimes sees traditional publishers as obstacles to the advance of digital reading, I want to say that it pleased me greatly to receive a signed hardcover copy of Wild from Oprah's social - media - savvy staff in response to some tweeting I dias obstacles to the advance of digital reading, I want to say that it pleased me greatly to receive a signed hardcover copy of Wild from Oprah's social - media - savvy staff in response to some tweeting I did.

CreateSpace as a POD option for indie publishers is a great solution except when you need a color interior or hardcover edition.

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 %.

UPDATE: As another example, Nan Graham, the SVP and EIC at Scribner (Steven's King's publisher) created a nicely - crafted hardcover, and explained that «We hoped that a handsome object would slow the migration to e-book for King.»

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.

Though many publishers have started to provide «library binding» editions, many libraries elect to purchase paperbacks and have them rebound as hardcover books, resulting in longer life for the material.

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

To put pressure on Amazon, the publishers said that they would delay putting out e-books until sometime after the hardcover editions were released — a procedure known as «windowing.»

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

Publishers saw this as «devaluing» their product (read this as «taking away hardcover sales») and, at the behest of Apple and it's new iPad, changed the way ebooks were sold.

Why can not both the publisher and author put the same amount in their pockets for an ebook as they do for a hardcover and simply pass the production savings (all of it) on to the reader?

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.

If the publisher paid the same list royalties on the $ 15 ebook as it did for the $ 30 hardcover, the author would earn $ 1.50 — $ 1.75.

«After Fern Reiss's six - month book publicity campaign, my publisher had to print 3 times as many hardcover books as they had planned, and we are now planning a paperback edition, as well.

After all, we know that eBook Revenues Topped Hardcover in the first quarter, per the Association of American Publishers, as Jason Boog at GalleyCat has dutifully reported.

The cost to print your book (based on format choices you've made such as hardcover or paperback, black - and - white or premium color, page count, etc.) will be deducted from the $ 7.05 wholesale price, and you will be paid what is left over as your publisher earnings on that sale.

If there is any change we are likely to see, at least from legacy publishers, it is that there will be even fewer mmpbs on the shelves now as they try to find more and more ways to push hardcover sales.

«Rule 34» was sold in 2008, so benefited from publishers not thinking ebook rights were worth much, so in principle I get nearly as much money from an ebook sale as from a hardcover.

People blame the publishers when they see hardcovers cost the same as or less than e-books, but that's an image Amazon is able to manipulate behind the scenes because it's willing to sell hardcovers below cost.