Sentences with phrase «rather than hardcover»

I've been wondering why Gregory Maguire's latest, The Next Queen of Heaven, is being published in trade paper rather than hardcover.

Mass Market paperbacks are being phased out more rapidly than anticipated, and many publishers are switching even consistently bestselling novelists to trade paperback rather than hardcover releases.

Not exact matches

Lost jobs; a leaky classroom ceiling that required 21 buckets; and stapled textbooks rather than the usual hardcover — it's not just future retirees that will suffer if investment returns from state - sponsored pension plans continue on their downward trajectory.

A quarter - century down the line, analysts say, there's little reason to expect that the consumer will be more often flipping the pages of an e-book on their tablet computer than picking up a hardcover, and streaming video through their Web - enabled TV rather than turning on their Blu - ray player.

That's nice, but even for an author I really like, I'd rather wait another year for the paperback than spend twice as much on the hardcover right now anyway.

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.

But publishers want more money than they are getting from the new world of declining hardcover sales and they are pushing the Agency plan rather than being creative, making special editions and charging more for those, in a win - win situation.

Much as I want to support my fellow writers and independent booksellers like Powell's, I would rather buy two hardcovers for my $ 28 than one.

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.

In the trad book world, hardcover books are given freely to reviewers, but in Amazon's world, where a free video game or computer may be given to a reviewer rather than a mere book, it can seem like a bribe.

Printed collections will be around for quite a while, but the monthly comic is as anachronistic as television commercials, since nearly all comics stories are written with the trade (or hardcover) in mind rather than the single issue they first appear in.

I think it should have special appeal to the amateur market because Inkling's format allows people to ease into the book piecemeal, rather than commit to the whole thing (the hardcover version of Pro Chef is a behemoth, with a list price of $ 75 and clocking in at 1232 pages.)