Sentences with phrase «than hardback books»

The news comes hot on the heals of Amazon announcing that it now sells more Kindle ebooks than hardback books via its US Kindle store.

But, when Amazon recently claimed to sell 80 % more digital books online than hardback books, I decided to find out more about the whole scene.

It makes no sense when a publisher prices an ebook at a price equal or greater than a hardback book.

Not exact matches

Bishop Michael Campbell's book is nicer to use and handle: it is only slightly more expensive than the Family Publications book, but is hardback, and has a ribbon marker.

Regrettably, it's the movie version of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a book still thumping its chest on the hardback best - seller list after more than three years.

But I remember the days when we were told that hardback cost more than paperbacks to produce and that when the cost of paper went up, so did the cost of books.

I found I read more books on my iPad than I'd been reading in hardback or paperback.

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.»

Fiction reading... well, I do have some of those books (some hardback some paperback) with the intent and hope that I would read more but more of them remain unread than read sad to say... until now

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.)

From more book types and formatting options than you can shake a stick at (hardback, paperback, magazines, etc), authors can select their ideal number of books with the print - on - demand option, print in premium colour or in crisp black and white and access print markets across the world with Ingram Spark's partnerships.

Publishers claim that Amazon's price point of $ 9.99 «devalues» books because it puts the e-book at lower than a hardback.

I could justify buying almost any of my favorite novels because it was so much cheaper than a physical hardback book.

Do you think being published in ebook format is any less exciting than being published in a real physical book, be it hardback or mass market paperback?

But, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal, there are book publishers who are pushing back on the notion of releasing an eBook version of a new book for a price any less than the retail price of the same book's hardback version.

At this point, I feel $ 9.99 is more than fair until the quality of the ebook product is comparable to the hardback version of the book.

Would be great for my dad who decided recently that he needs something larger than the average hardback book.

«Shelf Awareness has reported that in response to the direct competition, which is across the 466,000 books that Overstock supplies, Amazon.com has begun discounting the price of hardback books much higher than before.

In the UK last year, more digital books were published than hardback editions, according to an article by Phillip Jones for The Bookseller.

According to an Amazon UK release, the company is now selling more ebooks than hardback or paperback books in Britain, a tipping point that we reached in the U.S. over a year ago.

This Christmas millions are being spent on persuading us to buy easy - to - read electronic devices like Kindle and iTab, and with more digital books said to have been sold in the US this year than hardbacks we can all see that a publishing revolution is on us.

So I was dismayed and disappointed when I discovered its publisher (Viking, a part of Penguin Group) has used the potentially unlawful agency model of eBook pricing to force Amazon to sell the Kindle version of the book for $ 9 more than what it charges for the hardback version.

According to the BBC, more than 500 books in all formats, amongst them 200 hardbacks, are being published today, including a good helping of comedians» autobiographies, and of course a Jamie Oliver cookbook, Jamie's Great Britain.

The shop floors are dotted with waist - high stacks of hardbacks and coffee table books priced less than the cost of the round - trip bus fare or petrol it took to get you there.

I know in these discussions people always talk about the reduced cost of production of eBooks is less than for hardback books and as you say its not really relevant but what is (in my view) is the rights associated with the purchase.

If this means buying a book on my Kindle is no longer * more expensive * than buying the same book in hardback, it sounds pretty good.

At the Digital Book World conference in January 2017, Nielsen presented 2016 data from more than 30 traditional US publishers showing a fall in eBook sales from 2015 to 2016 and hardback unit sales overtaking eBooks for the first time since 2012.