Sentences with phrase «same as a print book»

So, as far as I know, with the exception of the print / digital issue, my books would have been treated the same as the print books in the other room.

Unlike many digital library products, Capstone is not pretending that a digital book is the same as a print book — the license allows multiple readers to check out the book at the same time.

One respondent said: «E-books should not cost the same as a print book.

This Table of Contents is not the same as a print book, but a file inside your EPUB called the NCX.

These key pieces to the publishing pie are still part and parcel of delivering an eBook to market, just the same as a print book.

If you want to take your content and make it look the same as a print book, there's still a lot of things you just can't do yet.

For production, ebooks demand the same as print books in terms of writing, editing, and proofing, but nowhere near the same in terms of other things that go into making an attractive printed book.

When that happens, it will be another nail in the coffin of the traditional publishing houses. I laugh when they say that the cost of producing ebooks is the same as print books ignoring the cost of paper and shipping while pointing out the cost of things like cover designs.

Now, this infographic provokes a different question: why ebooks cost the same as print books if their production is not that complex?

Not exact matches

The book is essentially the same as the author's out of print Winning The War Within.

I'm not sure why the Wall Street Journal is reprinting a preface to a book that his been in print for over nine months — indeed, I quoted the very same piece in Page to Screen back in July — as fresh content.

The pdf includes the same information as the PowerPoint but is designed to be printed with 8 slides per page (2 by 4) so it makes a set of A5 sized notes for students to stick in their books.

Pronoun and Draft2Digital are going after the same market — ebook authors and authors who are publishing ebooks as well as print books.

Most paperbacks found in bookstores and Walmart (which have about the same quality as you can expect with a CreateSpace - printed book) are $ 8.99 or even less, and those are for full novels — 80,000 words or more.

«It was important to Jeff and to Abrams (the publisher) that our Wimpy Kid e-books offer the same visual experience as the print books,» Michael Jacobs, president and CEO of Abrams, said in a statement.

If the files pass inspection a proof of the interior as well as a proof of the cover or jacket will be produced on the same press on which the full book run will be printed.

Our Print On Demand quality is just as good because we use the exact same digital printing process for all of our books.

There are people who like print books, and I have no argument with them either, because they, too, have a right to live their lives as they see fit, although I would take exception if they choose to «evangelise» their views, much in the same way as those who choose to sit in their imaginary camps of anti-Troglodytes.

Ask yourself this: why publish an e-book at basically the same price as a print version of the same book?

I still don't understand how publishers can hope to see their sales of ebooks rise while pricing them at, essentially, the same level as a printed paper book.

More and more author are finding out that they make $ 2 on at $ 2.99 Kindle book which is the same as they make on at $ 20.99 printed book with a major publisher.

Draft2Digital does claim to be working on allowing authors to choose CreateSpace as one of its distribution options, which is alarming; by its own FAQ admission, «e-books and print books are fundamentally different media,» yet the site also states that a Word document can be formatted as an ePub within minutes, and that same uploaded file can be formatted for CreateSpace exactly the same way.

The mere fact that e-books are flourishing is proof that they can be just as successful as printed books, both financially and critically.More and more people are going to be going the e-reader route over the years, for reasons of convenience, as more authors will do the same.

Publisher HarperCollins and bookseller Foyles have joined hands to come up with a unique scheme, a book bundle offer where buyers will get both the print as well as the ebook version of the same as a single buy.

Just as Tumblr transformed the standard of personal websites with its ease of sharing different types of content, PressBooks intends to do the same for ebook and print book publishing.

As an indie author, I'm forced to create and sell two identical (same - ISBN) versions of each print book: 1) A CreateSpace - printed version to sell online at Amazon (but no extended distribution) 2) A LightningSource - printed, Ingram - distributed version for Barnes & Noble retail stores, indie bookstores, and the like.

It costs exactly the same to print and distribute a 100 - page book that retails for $ 10 as a 100 - page book that retails for $ 50.

Amazon recently announced that during September it sold more Kindle books than print books for the top ten, hundred and even thousand bestselling books on its US website, and other retailers will no doubt see the same as Christmas approaches.

Indeed, the quality of the paper, binding, and cover finish for a POD book today is generally the same as for a traditionally printed book.

So, the big guys want to have their cake and eat it: we own a print book, but licence an e-book, yet some would charge the same rate for licencing as ownership.

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...

We recommend that you publish an ebook in addition to print version (s), so as not to limit your readership, and you'll save money if you have the same book cover designed for both formats at once rather than starting over if you decide to add an ebook version later.

A fixed - layout ebook preserves page design, which allows your ebook to maintain the same layout as your print book.

I have a problem buying an e-book that I can buy for the same price as the print addition of the same book.

I will not pay the same for an ebook as I will for a print book.

When I read an ebook, it's the same as when I read a print book: I want to read, not watch a video or even look at pictures.

They're just the same words as in the printed books made reflowable for a screen.

The library will therefore have to decide whether each ebook will come under a non-concurrent single user license (the only one possible with print books), allowing access to one user only, i.e. as occurs with printed books, or whether it will allow multiple users access to the same eBook simultaneously.

These e-books are being priced at the same rate as the print book.

With IngramSpark, you can achieve a physical product (whether print book or ebook) with the same quality standards that the publishing industry expects, meaning your print book has the same binding, trim sizes, paper weights, return status, wholesale discount, and beyond as books created by traditional publishers.

At Hazlitt, Random House Canada's platform for digital publishing initiatives, the approach to promoting an ebook is the same as promoting a print book.

Many are predicting that printed books will fall swiftly into the same doldrums as music and experience the same decline as newspapers.

My imagination started getting the best of me as I pictured my 18 year old son working in a bookstore as a summer job with the same screw driver and hopeless look as the customer either left or picked up a printed book off the shelf somewhere else in the store.

Just as I was beginning to accept the death of the printed book publishing industry, I now learn that ebooks will also go the same way!

No matter where you take the print book, no matter what room you read it in, it will remain in the same form and have the same affordances as it did on the day it was first stacked in the bookstore.

Retailer Brian Hibbs wrote a bitter column for Comic Book Resources in which he alleged that when DC began releasing digital comics the same day as print, they promised retailers they would be given «most favored nation status» as long as print was the primary market.

Caleb says that even with a $ 5 book, an author can make the same as with a standard print contract.

I can buy a 50 year - old printed book and read it today with the same ease as I can read a book printed today, even though the format of the two books differ.

There would not be the same irritation over having to wait for a print book because we are conditioned to think of that as an object that must be passed from person - to - person.

If the book you want is too expensive, borrow it from a library or borrow the print copy from a friend or even get a print copy from a site like book crossing or here's an idea get a book that's 99 cents or 3.99 or something you can afford that» is the same genre and type of read as the book you want — especially if the cheaper one has even better reviews.