NOOK still is considerably lighter
than hardcover novels, which typically weigh more than a pound.
Not exact matches
Amazon is selling the
hardcover edition of Jonathan Franzen's new
novel «Purity» for $ 15.10 — 11 cents more
than the $ 14.99 e-book price set by Macmillan Publishers, a unit of closely heldVerlagsgruppe Georg von HoltzbrinckGmbH, which declined to comment.
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.
Sure, The Host sold more
than 2 million copies in
hardcover, but the fourth Twilight
novel, Breaking Dawn, sold 1.3 million copies in its first day of release.
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.
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.
In the meantime, I have spent hundreds of dollars recently on non-fiction history and travel
hardcovers with charts, diagrams and other illustrations needing more
than e-book can offer for proper display, but I would not do that for
novels in e-book form.
I had an interesting experience this week: I just bought a brand - new
hardcover novel for less
than I would have paid for the ebook.
Melinda Haynes's «first
novel of immense and staggering power» (Pat Conroy, author of Beach Music) was an unexpected sensation, chosen for Oprah's book club and selling more
than half a million copies in
hardcover.
Mr. Brown's fifth
novel sold a total of more
than one million
hardcover and e-book copies in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. in its first 24 hours on the market, according to Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor in chief of its publisher, Bertelsmann AG's Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
A small paperback
novel with no interior color will cost less
than a
hardcover book with a full - color interior and a dust jacket.
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.