Sentences with phrase «than hardcover sales»

Ever since I heard that quote from Amazon, that e-book sales were greater than hardcover sales, I've been wondering if the e-book sales number included all the public domain and other free titles.

Not exact matches

Hillary Clinton's new book debuted to higher sales than any nonfiction hardcover since 2012, selling over 300,000 copies (including digital sales) in its first week, though that's not quite as high as her first book.

Hardcover and trade paper is certainly much more efficient than mass market... probably around 65 % sale overall.

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.

Their profit margins on hardcovers are bigger than paperbacks and ebooks, ergo it's in their interest to protect hardcover sales.

A little while ago Amazon was crowing because ebook sales for the Kindle were more than doubling hardcover and then paperback sales on the site.

But publishers want more money than they are getting from the new world of declining hardcover sales and they are pushing the Agency plan rather than being creative, making special editions and charging more for those, in a win - win situation.

Although I would argue that traditional publishers» net profit on hardcovers is probably slimmer than it used to be, given the growing costs of warehousing, shipping, and manufacturing even as hardcover book sales are decreasing.

Last July we announced that Kindle books had passed hardcovers and predicted that Kindle would surpass paperbacks in the second quarter of this year, so this milestone has come even sooner than we expected - and it's on top of continued growth in paperback sales.»

The BookStats study shows that hardcover sales rose 6 % last year; trade paperbacks dropped less than 1 %.

Last July we announced that Kindle books had passed hardcovers and predicted that Kindle would surpass paperbacks in the second quarter of this year, so this milestone has come even sooner than we expected — and it's on top of continued growth in paperback sales.»

Ebooks are now THE dominant sales format for adult fiction; bigger than hardcover, bigger than paperback.

[50] In the overall US market, paperback book sales are still much larger than either hardcover or e-book; the American Publishing Association estimated e-books represented 8.5 % of sales as of mid-2010, up from 3 % a year before.

And, besides, even at 17.5 % of gross, an author's e-book take is still better than their hardcover take, let alone the measly 8 % they get from paperback sales.

Less than one year after introducing the UK Kindle Store, Amazon.co.uk is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books, even as hardcover sales continue to grow.

And now for some stats: it seems More People Are Buying Dirty E-Books Than Hardcover Books, E-book sales revenue and number of books sold are up, publishing market size down but Do These New Book Sale Statistics Shock You?

In an attempt to spur mainstream adoption of its e-reader, the Kindle, (and to fend off the growing number of competitors in the e-reader, digital book, and tablet market) Amazon reduced the e-reader price by more than half and established a policy of capping off e-book prices at $ 9.99, which publishers criticized, arguing that the low prices of e-books would cannibalize sales of higher priced hardcover books.

Amazon said Monday that it is selling more e-books than hardcover books and talked up Kindle sales without providing details.

While we were on the line I even experimentally purchased the book to see what price I was charged as their representative said they would refund the price if I was charged USD45 — which I was, so they refunded me the money and cancelled the sale (the hardcover was much cheaper than USD45!).

While e-book sales have been leveling off as they absorbed the replacement audience for mass market paperbacks — because e-book prices are cheap in mass market territory — the sector of e-books that have been selling the best are the first - run new bestsellers — the ones with the highest e-book prices initially (although those prices come down over time, just like a paperback edition and the e-book prices are lower than hardcover and trade paper usually.)

In some markets, Walmart promotes hardcover copies of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life on sale for less than $ 9 to get customers into the stores, down from its $ 29 retail price, Weiner said.

Also interesting: while e-books more than doubled from last January's sales numbers, mass market paperbacks -LRB--30.9 %), trade paperbacks -LRB--19.7 %), and hardcovers -LRB--11.3 %) all suffered double - digit percentage point drops from last year.

Less than 45 % of their Amazon income is coming from hardcover and paperback sales.

All we know for sure is that Kindle is selling more e-books than hardcover books and its e-book sales have tripled in recent months compared to the same time last year.

If he wasn't making out better on his ebook sales than he was on his hardcover sales, then he had a shitty contract deal with his publishers, because Amazon offers much better royalty rates for ebooks than you'll get from a traditional publisher for hardcovers.

There is no good reason for this, other than to protect hardcover sales.

Here's more from the report (Q1 2012 chart embedded above): «In Q1 2012, net sales revenue for eBooks was higher than that for Hardcover; this represents a switch of positions in the category vs Q1 2011.

This means that combined digital content and Nook device sales are now shrinking faster than traditional hardcover and paperback sales.

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