Sentences with phrase «same as a hardcover»

-- Mike Shatzkin, publishing consulting In some cases e-books cost about the same as the hardcover.

The same as a hardcover is cheaper at # 10.

If you had asked included «ebooks should cost the same as hardcovers» and «ebooks should cost the same as paperbacks» and «ebooks should cost less than paperbacks», I think you would have gotten more specific, useful data about what book buyers think regarding ebook prices.

Typically, prices for new titles range from around $ 26, or the same as a hardcover, to the discounted $ 9.99 that Amazon charges for most of its Kindle titles.

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.

Back in 2008, the Dear Author blog had a post on how publishers were trying to price e-books the same as hardcovers.

Not exact matches

Yup, an e-reader will now cost about the same as two hardcover books.

eLearning isn't the same as learning from a hardcover book.

Hardcover / paperback / 2nd hand bookstore, meanwhile the e-book costs the same now, as the day it came out, whether that was yesterday or ten years ago.

pdf, the same price as for a hardcover).

The European Court of Justice has ruled that audiobooks and e-books are considered digital services and do not qualify for the same type of VAT as hardcover and paperback novels enjoy.

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

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.

I agree, but at the same point having a free ebook with the purchase of a hardcover book would encourage more people to spend a bit more on the first edition book and have the ebook as a backup.

They are often are the same size and bear the same cover illustration as the hardcover edition.

E-books would also be released around the same day as their hardcover print counterparts, instead of waiting days, weeks, months after the hardcover releases before releasing the e-book version.

So why exactly do so many e-book readers think that they are entitled to an e-book edition in their preferred format at the same time as the hardcover for less than half the price?

IngramSpark supports hardcovers, paperbacks and ebooks and uploading a print book and an ebook into your account at the same time costs the same amount as just uploading a print book alone.

You can switch devices as easily as picking up a paperback instead of a hardcover (of the same book).

I just bought a hardcover of Stephen Pinker's latest book because it was about the same price as an ebook; I would have bought through Kobo if Kobo offered the right price point (they didn't, but Indigo sure did).

A recent notable exception was Walter Issacsson» Steve Jobs biography which was offered as an e-book at the same time, albeit at the same price, as the hardcover edition (in Japan the biography was published in two parts with a combined price of $ 50 compared to a street price of about $ 17 in the US).

Additionally, during this same time period the Company has sold three times as many Kindle books as hardcover books.

It is basically the same cost as a new hardcover book and the Kobo store has over a million free books available.

That's another positive to hardcover books — they can be passed on to subsequent generations and evoke the same positive emotion in that generation as was evoked when the gift was originally given.

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

Song Reader by Beck Hansen, which retails on Amazon for just over $ 22 for the hardcover, is available on eBay through Roxy Media UK's storefront for over $ 40; other third party vendors on Amazon such as Any Book and Murray Media sell the same title for as much as $ 124.

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.

She gets that ebook readers are not the same people as hardcover buyers!

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.

Additionally, during this same time period the company has sold three times as many Kindle books as hardcover books.

On the one hand, charging the same price (or more) for an e-book as a hardcover seems ludicrous, but at the same time, the publishing industry has long struggled to survive, as there is little if any money in books these days.

The book will be hardcover and presumably have the same large cut size as Viz Media's previous art book releases.

In the interim, the larger format paperback called the trade paperback, which is the same size as the hardcover book only with a paper cover, sold for maybe $ 3.95 or so.

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 %.

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

Since Apple is willing to play along with eBooks at $ 14.99 they get those at the same time as the hardcover is released (via Big Money)--

I'd be prepared to wager that consumers are more than happy to choose an e-book over a more expensive hardcover, but I question whether that preference holds up when the price point is the same for either format, as with agency - priced * paperbacks.

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?

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.

Under the wholesale pricing model that had been in effect for ebooks for over two years, the suggested list price for a new release Kindle book was usually the same as the suggested list price for a hardcover.

Do we release ebooks at the same time as the hardcover, but discount the ebook?

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.

This isn't the same as paperback versions vs hardcover — where the platform and convenience are the same — the timing and pricing are the key ingredients.

He added: «It now seems evident that the Kindle numbers will, at least, be in the same ballpark as the hardcover numbers.»

Kindle book sales continue to outpace hardcover sales, as well; during the same time period, three times as many Kindle books were sold as were hardcover books (including sales listings for books that have no Kindle edition).

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.