The Kindle launched in the UK in August 2010, and within nine months, Amazon was selling more e-books
than hardcover print books.
Not exact matches
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).
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.»
It had to happen eventually: Amazon.com announced Thursday that it is selling more Kindle e-books
than printed hardcover or paperback books.
In May, 2011 CNN reported ``... Amazon announced Thursday that its customers now buy more e-books for its Kindle device
than all
print books —
hardcover and paperback — combined.»
According to Bowker, eBooks leave «publishers with a lot more to identify with ebooks
than the
print standbys of
hardcover and paperback.»
Today we were informed that during the past 30 days, Amazon customers purchased more Kindle books
than print books —
hardcover and paperback combined — for the top... [Read more...]
* No more
than a few weeks after a
hardcover hits
print, used copies show up on Amazon for less
than the discounted Amazon price.
Amazon sells more ebooks
than it does
print books of all kinds, paperback or
hardcover.
So the
hardcover version has a different ISBN
than the paperback version; the eBook version carries a different number
than the large -
print edition, and so on.
And last year, Amazon announced it was selling more e-books
than print books —
hardcover and paperback combined.
In a sign of how the world has changed in the last decade, Amazon announced today that less
than four years after introducing digital books, Amazon.com customers are now purchasing more Kindle books
than all
print books —
hardcover and paperback — combined.
More customers were buying eBooks for their Kindles or other devices
than printed paperbacks and
hardcovers.
The publisher may wish to use your manuscript in ways other
than producing
hardcover or paperback
print book editions.
While the introduction of competing platforms, and an uprising among publishers has led to more variable, and slightly higher pricing of e-books, in general they are still cheaper
than the
printed equivalent — whether
hardcover or paperback.
Printed collections will be around for quite a while, but the monthly comic is as anachronistic as television commercials, since nearly all comics stories are written with the trade (or
hardcover) in mind rather
than the single issue they first appear in.
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.
Amazon announced on Thursday that Amazon.com customers are now purchasing more books for the Kindle
than print books — including
hardcover and paperback — combined.
Although Crumb's last
hardcover work, The Book of Genesis Illustrated, published in 2009 by W.W. Norton, was a bestseller that sold more
than 150,000 copies, David Zwirner Books will release an initial
printing of 5,000 copies of Art and Beauty for North America and the U.K. / Europe.