Sentences with phrase «than a hardcover because»

«Amazon keeps promoting the idea that an eBook should cost much, much less than a hardcover because the cost of producing it is so much lower.

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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.

Then often the ebook price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then than the price for the hardcover book, later when you can buy the paperback it is usually cheaper than the ebook, because that was priced after the hardcover and since book prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.

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).

A hardcover book will appear larger than a paperback with the same book trim size because the hardcover itself is larger than the pages.

Workbooks are wonderful because they often have a higher perceived value than even a standard hardcover or paperback book.

They tend to read really fast and a lot of books, so because the eBook tends to be a little less expensive than the actual paperback or hardcover of the book, they can actually consume the content at a faster rate and you know get their fill of all their favorite authors.

The Amazon - led $ 9.99 retail price point for the most popular e-books troubled the Publisher Defendants because, at $ 9.99, most of these e-book titles were priced substantially lower than hardcover versions of the same title.

A little while ago Amazon was crowing because ebook sales for the Kindle were more than doubling hardcover and then paperback sales on the site.

Authors and agents will immediately note that much of the additional profit exists because the royalty allocation once earned out is $ 1.58 lower on the ebook than for the hardcover.

3) because of the lower price, everyone in the pipeline, from author to agent, publisher and retailer makes less than if the book were published in hardcover

You don't buy hardcovers because it would cost you a great deal of money to get them shipped to your home, yet you say that the ebook costs you more than the hardcover does.

But with books, apparently hardcovers, which are sturdier than paperbacks and more permanent than e-books or audio books and so some customers pay for those features because they want them, are evil.

While e-book sales have been leveling off as they absorbed the replacement audience for mass market paperbacks — because e-book prices are cheap in mass market territory — the sector of e-books that have been selling the best are the first - run new bestsellers — the ones with the highest e-book prices initially (although those prices come down over time, just like a paperback edition and the e-book prices are lower than hardcover and trade paper usually.)

My husband, he just bought the new John Sandford e-book, for slightly less than the hardcover — felt it was a good value because he wanted it.

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.

If he wasn't making out better on his ebook sales than he was on his hardcover sales, then he had a shitty contract deal with his publishers, because Amazon offers much better royalty rates for ebooks than you'll get from a traditional publisher for hardcovers.

You will quite often USE more than that because you will need a separate ISBN for your eBook, another for your paperback, a third for hardcover, and any other formats or editions (like an audiobook) you may come up with in the future.

That's part of the «decline» scenario, because honestly who would not buy a hardcover print book if it was cheaper than a digital book.

You can actually buy hardcover books cheaper than the books at times because I just bought a slew of hardcover books for like 2.99 or 3.99 that I didn't have already.

I think it should have special appeal to the amateur market because Inkling's format allows people to ease into the book piecemeal, rather than commit to the whole thing (the hardcover version of Pro Chef is a behemoth, with a list price of $ 75 and clocking in at 1232 pages.)