Sentences with phrase «selling hardcover»
And how is this different from me walking into B&N and getting a best - selling hardcover for $ 5 after itâ $ ™ s been out a while?
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Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books than hardcover books — astonishing when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months.»
To see what Amazon's pricing looks like alongside EPUB - selling rivals WHSmith and Waterstones, we compared the top 5 titles from the New York Times best selling hardcover fiction list (prices as at the date of this review publication).
Those of us in the business understand that sales of both blockbusters were driven by techniques outlined in a book called PyroMarketing by Greg Stielstra who gained fame in book publishing circles when he served as the marketing director for The Purpose Driven Life, the best - selling hardcover book in history.
The result is «astonishing when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months», said Amazon's chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos.
«This is remarkable when you consider that we've been selling hardcover and paperback books for 15 years, and Kindle books for just 36 months.»
It's the 9th best - selling hardcover fiction title on the list, which means it should hit the NYT Hardcover Fiction somewhere around # 9 this week; no mean feat in a season crowded with big name authors.
The colourist of Teahouse, Christina, was also selling hardcover books of her web comic (which I also follow regularly), Fox Sister.
Kindle books are also outselling print books for the top 25, 100, and 1,000 bestsellers — it's across the board,»» This is remarkable when you consider that we've been selling hardcover and paperback books for 15 years, and Kindle books for just 36 months.»
Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995.
A CONTROVERSIAL GENIUSYou don't have to be tech savvy to enjoy Steve Jobs, the fascinating biography by Walter Isaacson that is out in paperback this month, two years after the release of the best - selling hardcover.
It seems that this week has been good to new authors, as two debut novels will make a very exciting debut — on the New York Times» best - selling Hardcover Fiction list.
A CONTROVERSIAL GENIUS You don't have to be tech savvy to enjoy Steve Jobs, the fascinating biography by Walter Isaacson that is out in paperback this month, two years after the release of the best - selling hardcover.
"Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books than hardcover books — astonishing when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months,» Bezos said.
SEATTLE, May 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995.
Amazon is selling the hardcover edition of Jonathan Franzen's new novel «Purity» for $ 15.10 — 11 cents more than the $ 14.99 e-book price set by Macmillan Publishers, a unit of closely heldVerlagsgruppe Georg von HoltzbrinckGmbH, which declined to comment.
Astonishing, said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, «when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months.»
It may seem counterintuitive to sell a hardcover book, but it makes sense if it's a format that customers want.
Book publishers have traditionally sold hardcover books to retailers for about half their cover price and let the retailers discount as they wished.
This means what they lost selling overpriced digital content they made up for selling hardcovers and paperbacks.
The advantage is that Aerobooks will allow you to sell both hardcover and paperback books; if you upload ebooks, you can sell those, too.
Publishers hated that — they thought it would trash their ability to sell hardcover books at $ 28.
Amazon is now playing the game well with Penguin and is putting pressure on the publisher by selling the hardcovers at rock bottom $ 9.99 price, something that triggered Penguin to adopt the agency model.
A few years from now, when the grandchild loses all sentimentality and wants to raise some cash to buy the latest video game, the grandchild can sell the hardcover on the used book market and get a few more dollars toward the purchase price — the hardcover gives again.
«We want to call attention to this particular novel, which we think is an enormously compelling one, and we want to help booksellers sell hardcover books, in spite of the competition from lower - priced e-books,» Miller said.
Crunching the numbers, I can sell more ebooks in a shorter amount of time than a Big 6 publisher can sell hardcover, s paperbacks, audiobooks, and ebooks, all combined.
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.
Sell your hardcover or paperback book alongside literary classics and bestselling authors on Amazon with Print On Demand — BookBaby's worldwide distribution service.
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.
Not exact matches
At its peak, Encyclopedia Britannica sold 120,000 hardcover sets of its books.
With more than 1 million hardcover copies sold, the book is now updated, annotated and available in paperback.
Michael Wolff's tell - all about the Trump administration book has sold more than 1.7 million copies in the combined formats of hardcover, e-books and audio.
It has sold several thousand copies in hardcover format and has been rated the number one investing book on the Kindle platform.
The first hardcover edition sold 600,000 copies; at one point, an unprecedented 10,000 orders were coming in a day.
The book, published in hardcover, sold for one dollar.
Friends all wanted copies, a local publisher printed it, took it to a book fair, and the rest is publishing history: after BOY and GIRL versions first appeared in the late - 70's, Once Upon a Potty titles became best - sellers in the U.S., Holland, Israel & Japan; the hardcover books and animated VHS videos have sold over 4,000,000 copies since 1990 in the United States alone!
Hillary Clinton's new book debuted to higher sales than any nonfiction hardcover since 2012, selling over 300,000 copies (including digital sales) in its first week, though that's not quite as high as her first book.
The Secret has certainly worked wonders for its marketers: More than 1.5 million DVDs have been sold, and the book hit number one on The New York Times best - seller list of hardcover advice books.
He gave up because he would have to read a $ 20 book, yet I used to sell South - Beach hardcover books far more often than the Atkins one.
Dark Horse Comics has announced that Eisner - award winning creator Mark Buckingham (Fables) is adapting four of New York Times best - selling author Neil Gaiman's prose short stories for the upcoming graphic novel anthology Likely Stories, to be published as a hardcover original graphic novel by Dark Horse Book later this year.
Publishing a book means making strategic, and sometimes difficult, decisions around format (hardcover vs. paperback), Price (NEVER price a book to recoup your investment, price it to sell), trim size, title and subtitle.
Before the agency model, Amazon was buying new ebook releases at the wholesale price of the hardcovers, then turning around and selling them for retail at dollars less.
So, for example, the standard royalty rate for hardcovers is 10 % on the first 5,000 copies sold, then 12.5 % on the next 10,000 copies sold, and 15 % thereafter.
S&S is publishing Wool in hardcover and trade paper edition simultaneously — meanwhile, Howey is still selling the book and its sequels in installments on his site.
Her sci - fi novel The Host wasn't a big jump from the teen fantasy she is known for, yet it still sold just 2 million copies in hardcover (yes, an impressive figure, but the fourth Twilight novel, by comparison, sold 1.3 million copies on its first day of sale!).
Similarly, the hardcover version of the book, The Chronicles of Downton Abbey which is sold along with the TV series also enjoys about # 3 price benefit for the hardcover version which is sold at # 12.99 as an ebook.
On the flip side, the paperback release of Kathryn Stockett's The Help has been pushed from February to June, since the hardcover is selling so well.
eBooks have been all the rage the world over with major retailers such as Amazon stating it has been consistently selling more ebooks than the corresponding hardcover versions.
However, ebook sales are still ahead of what it was a year ago, with Amazon claiming they are selling 112 ebooks to every 100 hardcover books sold via their store.
The Invention of Wings By Sue Monk Kidd Penguin • $ 17 • ISBN 9780143121701 With more than a million copies sold since its hardcover publication in January 2014, Kidd's captivating historical novel is already a runaway hit with readers, and this new paperback edition should move it to the top of the list for reading groups everywhere.