Sentences with phrase «than a paperback for»

And I don't think I'd pay more than $ 6.99 for an ebook because I believe they're worth less than a paperback for all the reasons I listed above.

It's the logical conclusion to demanding higher prices (often higher than the paperback for the same overpriced ebook) but seeing the numbers is sobering.

Not exact matches

When it was re-released in 2004, it rocketed once again to the top, holding a place on BusinessWeek's Best Seller list for paperback business books for more than 20 months.

Pyramid editor Leslie Schwartz indicates one reason for the vast volume of religious paperback sales: «Rather than [in] a specifically religious bookstore, these books are sold in very open, public places.

Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith is also on sale (by the looks of it, $ 9.40 for the paperback which is more than 40 % off!)

I myself am an author on Amazon, and I list my digital books for about 50 % less than my paperback books.

If you prefer paperback books like I do, you can get in on Amazon as well for less than $ 15 (And if you want the paperback, you can get free shipping by joining Amazon Prime for free for 30 days!)

It is for this exact reason (along with many others) that Amazon sells digital books for less than the paperback books.

I wish that Logos would become competitive here and sell their digital books for significantly less than the paperback books, and maybe even do some sort of price matching with Amazon Kindle eBooks.

Of course, if you prefer paperback editions (like I do), Dying to Religion and Empire is also available from Amazon for less than $ 10.

From start to finish, I probably spent less than ten thousand dollars for three formats: a hardcover, a paperback, and a Kindle version.

My argument for that is: How is that any different than carrying a book light around with a paperback novel?

Fortunately, you can get the whole series for less than the price of a trade paperback, and comparable to the price of many mass market paperbacks!

You are right that production and distribution costs per unit are less for ebooks than for paperbacks, but authors have the same 2 % to 12.5 % earnings of the list price of the book.

Says Maria Harrison, whose trade paperback of less than 200 pages was priced at $ 24.95, «Why would anyone want to buy an overpriced book from an unknown author when they can buy a wonderful book by a best - selling writer for less than ten dollars?

Therefore, for me as a reading choice, a reader makes more sense because in its protective case, it'll take a lot more abuse than a paperback or trade will.

But some author mills inflate prices even beyond that point, charging higher - than - hardcover prices for trade paperback - size books.

Who wants to buy... I'm sorry, «lease»... an ebook for more than the cost of the paperback edition?

I will pay more than $ 2.99 for a good book but I won't pay more than the paperback price.

Every major online retailer is selling the digital edition for a higher price than the paperback.

If you don't want to pay the 28.00 for a hardcover, wait a few months for the paperback to come out, and it often will cost LESS than the e-book.

The numbers speak for themselves: So far, the trilogy has sold more than 250,000 copies, in both paperbacks and eBooks.

That's nice, but even for an author I really like, I'd rather wait another year for the paperback than spend twice as much on the hardcover right now anyway.

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.

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.

Author Wiley Cash is currently on tour for the paperback release of his novel, A Land More Kind Than Home.

You can find books, where the price for the ebook is actually higher than for the paperback, so why should someone buy an inferior product (in terms of ownership)?

For added reference, this is quite a bit lighter than most of my actual paperbacks of 300 pages or more.

I would pay the same for an ebook as a paperback, but I resent having to pay more for the ebook than the paperback.

Periodicals, textbooks, workbooks, pamphlets, stapled paperbacks, and books designed for home rather than library use are excluded.

Not to mention the fact that an e-reader is a little more valuable than your average trashy paperback and might be a tempting theft target, especially if you leave it unguarded while you go in for a dip.

Kindle is lighter than most paperback books, making it easy and comfortable to hold in one hand for longer.

I have a friend that has to have all the newest gadgets, yet is waiting for my book to come out in paperback because she likes reading on paper better than electronic.

After this, Amazon introduced the short - lived Kindle DX, a large - format e-reader that didn't catch on, partly because the market for larger - format reading (articles, journals) wasn't as large or ready to spend money than the paperback - buying contingent.

I expect to pay a couple of pounds or so less than the paperback version for books from publishers, and # 0 - # 2.00 for self - published books depending on how hard the author's worked to get a following.

If you're the sort of reader who prefers to charge through a completed series rather than waiting for the next one to come out, you can now do so — and since Carina's prices are quite good, you can read the whole trilogy on your device for about the cost of a paperback!

The price advantage that e-books have had in the West will not likely be an immediate differentiator in India, since trade books have traditionally been priced much lower than in other territories ($ 2 — $ 6 for paperbacks).

To make this bundle even sweeter, there are three fantastic physical tiers that include signed comics, Battlestar Galactica trade paperbacks, and - for fans who love BSG and more genre TV - rare Walking Dead and X-Files comics for a total savings of more than 80 %!

In fact, in 2011 Amazon declared that for the first time, it had sold more Kindle e-books than paperback books, at a rate of 115 electronic books for -LSB-...]

During this insider interview on our literary agent blog, Carol Plum - Ucci, author of more than half a dozen young adult novels published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in hardcover and paperback, including The Body of Christopher Creed, shares advice for authors of all genres about how to write, publish, and / or promote their books.

Graves added that, «we can now have access to any print format or digital product in seconds rather than weeks, this gives us the ability to challenge the traditional route to market, if we choose we can publish our content digitally first then re-flow into hardback or paperback book formats for any English - speaking market in seconds.»

From must to nice: — fast page turns — paperback size, B - format, A5 (between 13 × 20 and 15 × 22 cm)-- less than 250 g — epub, pdf, and image formats — simple drag and drop USB sync (no proprietary app)-- waterproof, drop proof — fast cold boot — cloud sync — note taking — pressure sensitive sketches — use as external DP / HDMI monitor — web browser good enough for Wikipedia offline — synchronize audio book with ebook

According to the AV Club «The mass - market edition of Mockingbird — which currently features silhouetted cover art by Sarah Jane Coleman, but which is probably best remembered as the puce - covered little volume that populates the shelves of so many American high schools — was the cheapest version of the book on the market, retailing for a little more than half of what Harper Collins charges for its sturdier trade paperback edition.

DC2 Multiverse, on the other hand, will basically be choose - your - own adventure comics for digital (which should be a lot easier to follow than paperbacks that constantly have you flipping to another page half a book away).

Anna I understand your frustrations with pirated eBooks but the problem is that current system is not fair to most readers either, because of all the restrictions we don't really own eBooks we bought and despite that we have to pay for them more than for paperbacks.

Am I «devaluing» a book if I choose to wait for the mass market paperback, which is often 5 times less than the hardback?

I would happily pay even $ 7 for many books, rather than the usual formula of $ 30 or so for a hardback, $ 15 or so for a paperback or ebook (usually only a few percent different.)

In a recent article, CNN wrote, «[a] s further proof of how digital media dominate today's entertainment, Amazon announced Thursday that its customers now buy more e-books for its Kindle device than all print books — hardcover and paperback — combined.»

With the Kindle, the Kobo, the Nook and others came a never - ending stream of new books, often free and always cheaper than the $ 25 - $ 30 I was used to paying for Christian paperbacks here in New Zealand.

Even so, these same publishers who are so adamant about limiting our access to these e-books — and if you don't believe me, buy an e-book using Adobe Digital Editions and try to read it on a machine that isn't tied to that specific Adobe account — are more than willing to charge us as much or more for the digital version than we'd pay for the paperback copy of the book.