It's common to find the newest bestsellers showing up on bookstore
shelves in hardcover, and some months later in paperback, and later still in the even more economical trade paperback.
Published digitally in two volumes by Yen Press in 2013, Yukito Ayatsuji's spine - chilling horror novels make their way to bookstore
shelves in a hardcover omnibus edition under the Yen On brand in October 2014.
Another Published digitally in two volumes by Yen Press in 2013, Yukito Ayatsuji's spine - chilling horror novels make their way to bookstore
shelves in a hardcover omnibus edition under the Yen On brand in October 2014.
Not exact matches
For more space
in my small kitchen, I needed 4 similar sized
hardcover books to hold a
shelf up off of my cupboard.and guess what works perfectly?
I like printing a few
hardcover versions through Lulu (because it's easier and cheaper to set up than Lightning Source) and taking some media kit shots of me
in a bookstore (doesn't have to be an official «book signing» — you can even put a few on the bestseller
shelf and take pictures of them there).
Some big traditional publishers have gotten around the
shelf problem with
hardcovers that have a spiral binding encased
in it.
Just a note: I don't buy a
hardcover book for «how it looks on the
shelf», but instead partially because of durability / hardiness and how it feels
in my hands as compared to a paperback.
Most debut fiction titles first appear on bookstore
shelves as a cloth bound
hardcover with a dust jacket — likewise for debut titles
in the history, biography, science, and social studies genres.
I had just finished reading my hot - off - the -
shelf hardcover copy of Diana Gabaldon's An Echo
in the Bone and was waiting longingly for the next installment, when I decided I would write a novel to help other lost and bookless readers like myself.
What many aspiring authors don't know is that (1) the
shelf - life of new books
in brick and mortar bookstores is 2 - 6 weeks; (2) traditional authors get 8 - 15 % royalties vs. 70 % royalties for those self - published; (3) almost 30 % of
hardcover and paperbacks end up
in landfills; (4) the timeframe between book contract to actual publication at traditional houses is 18 - 24 months; and (5) agents are rarely interested
in authors who only have one book up their sleeves.
Having to print, bind, ship, store
in a warehouse, store
in a store, display on a store
shelf, take back returned copies, and all of that ancillary stuff — it costs roughly $ 2 - 3 per book for a
hardcover, more like $ 1 for a paperback.
There's also a
shelf of exact replicas of J.D. Salinger's «The Catcher
in the Rye» with two differences: Richard Prince is listed as the author and the
hardcover price is doubled to $ 62.
In the corner of the living room, open
shelves showcase a variety of
hardcovers and fanciful trinkets.