Sentences with phrase «than hardbacks»

There's no reason for an ebook to cost more than a paperback, much less more than a hardback.

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.

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Instinctually, the fact that there is no thing that I can hold, no physical piece that has to be toted and shipped and stacked and stocked, means that it should cost less than a hardback.

Some books come out priced higher than the hardback versions, and then suddenly drop a week later as the author realizes how the pricing model works.

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

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 turns out that e-books are not cannibalizing hardcover and trade paperback sales, as publishers» once feared, though mass market paperbacks — which are often published much later than their hardback counterparts, and sold mostly in more traditional retail environments like drugstores — have been negatively impacted.

This propelled the ebook format into number one position among all book formats, more than hardback sales or any of the paperback formats.

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

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

Trade paperbacks actually give readers more value and thus even though prices of trade paperbacks tend to be around $ 15.00, readers went for them as a cheaper deal than hardbacks that have reached prices of $ 27.00 — $ 29.00.

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.

And at just a bit over half a pound, it's about the weight of a paperback, and much more portable than a hardback.

Just like paperbacks were cheaper and easier to carry and store than hardbacks, ebooks are cheaper and easier to store than paperbacks.

Executives who want an ultra-portable that is barely larger than a hardback book should look at the hardy yet petite Lenovo ThinkPad X61 ($ 1,699) or the Sony VAIO TZ series ($ 2,500).

I have seen Kindle editions (most often new releases) priced higher than hardback or paperback versions... especially when the ebook is priced at $ 12 USD and up.

Especially when they price them equal or greater than the hardback price.

I just wanted to leave a note here that Kindle editions are not always cheaper than the hardback or paperback versions... especially if you're shopping the used market for printed editions.

You had to also pay for it, but still the $ 9.99 was a lot less than a hardback and even less that many paperbacks.

To charge almost as much or even more than the hardback is a mistake.

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.

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

Ebooks are increasingly maintream, with Amazon now selling more ebooks than hardbacks.

Someone else had a badly done paperback that was so overpriced, it cost more than my hardback and about twice that of my paperback.