At 7.5 by 5.3 by 0.7 inches (HWD), it's
smaller than a hardcover book but larger than most paperbacks, and it feels good in hand.
Not exact matches
At just 7.5 ounces and with dimensions
smaller than a standard
hardcover novel, the JetBook lets you carry a stack of books in the palm of your hand and read them wherever you want.
Fewer
than 700 Big Five authors and fewer
than 500
small - or - medium publisher authors who debuted in the last 10 years are now earning $ 25,000 a year or more on Amazon — from all of their
hardcover, paperback, audio and ebook editions combined.
The actual dimensions of the Kindle DX display screen (5 3/8 ″ x 7 7/8 ″, 9.7 ″ on the diagonal) are a tiny bit
smaller than the standard 6 ″ x 9 ″ of most trade paperbacks and allow for a printable page that is equal to the printable page in a standard
hardcover book whose exterior dimensions are 6 1/4 ″ x 9 7/16 ″.
Heck, if not for the desperate efforts of publishers,
Hardcover would have an even
smaller market share
than it already does.
Fewer
than 700 Big Five authors and fewer
than 500
small - or - medium publisher authors who debuted in the last 10 years are now earning $ 25,000 a year or more on Amazon — from all of their
hardcover, paperback, audio and eBook editions combined.
A
small paperback novel with no interior color will cost less
than a
hardcover book with a full - color interior and a dust jacket.
The 5 ″ screen is
smaller than the 6 ″ e-Ink screens on the Kindles and Nooks, but that makes for a very
small and light e-reader, weighing in at just 4.73 ounces (much lighter
than a
hardcover, or even most paperbacks).
I never valued the
small luxuries of life — a bottle of wine, a
hardcover novel bought on a whim, a concert ticket — more
than when I coul - dn't afford them.