Sentences with phrase «than hardcovers for»

Not exact matches

The Secret has certainly worked wonders for its marketers: More than 1.5 million DVDs have been sold, and the book hit number one on The New York Times best - seller list of hardcover advice books.

From start to finish, I probably spent less than ten thousand dollars for three formats: a hardcover, a paperback, and a Kindle version.

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.

But some author mills inflate prices even beyond that point, charging higher - than - hardcover prices for trade paperback - size books.

If you don't want to pay the 28.00 for a hardcover, wait a few months for the paperback to come out, and it often will cost LESS than the e-book.

Once essentially no more than a museum of great works, libraries in the 21st century have had to reinvent themselves as a community - based center of learning and production, not just a place to put your name on the list for the latest James Patterson hardcover.

That's nice, but even for an author I really like, I'd rather wait another year for the paperback than spend twice as much on the hardcover right now anyway.

Then often the ebook price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then than the price for the hardcover book, later when you can buy the paperback it is usually cheaper than the ebook, because that was priced after the hardcover and since book prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.

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.

But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.

Side Sewn: A special binding method used for hardcover books with low page counts (fewer than 64 pages).

The discounts are, of course, far higher than the usual 40 % -50 % range offered by Amazon, warehouse clubs and other discounters — including Overstock — and are more typical for remainders than frontlist hardcovers.

With capabilities to highlight text and take notes within each ebook, eCampus offers more than 100,000 digital titles, as well as hardcover texts for purchase or rent.

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.

"Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books than hardcover books — astonishing when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months,» Bezos said.

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.»

They'd be much more likely to adopt Amazon's Kindle ereaders if they thought they could find new books for much less than they could by 1) buying Amazon's own hardcovers or 2) shopping at the local bookseller (think retail discounter and current ebook competitor Barnes and Noble).

In addition the delivery time for hardcover book orders is about fourteen days longer than for softcover books.

The Amazon - led $ 9.99 retail price point for the most popular e-books troubled the Publisher Defendants because, at $ 9.99, most of these e-book titles were priced substantially lower than hardcover versions of the same title.

So why exactly do so many e-book readers think that they are entitled to an e-book edition in their preferred format at the same time as the hardcover for less than half the price?

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.

I will observe that at volumes of 80K +, the narrower margins of mmpbs (and even tbps) more than makeup for the lack of hardcover margins, so I don't think the underlying math changes so much.

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.

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.

«For less than the average price of one hardcover bestseller, we've made the best digital library in the world available to every corner of India.

I should not have been able to get a brand - new hardcover for more than half off the list price on the day the book released.

I also have a twitchy back, so I have to say, when reading on the run, it is so much better to carry my Kobo than a 600 page hardcover (for example) on top of all the other stuff I carry on a daily basis.

A few years ago I found that the e-book for one of my favourite authors was more expensive than the hardcover.

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.

Much as I want to support my fellow writers and independent booksellers like Powell's, I would rather buy two hardcovers for my $ 28 than one.

(For example, note that the suggested physical retail price for the Robert Massie title being cited in some literary blogs is $ 35, higher than most hardcovers, so its corresponding library e-price is higher than the aforesaid price rangFor example, note that the suggested physical retail price for the Robert Massie title being cited in some literary blogs is $ 35, higher than most hardcovers, so its corresponding library e-price is higher than the aforesaid price rangfor the Robert Massie title being cited in some literary blogs is $ 35, higher than most hardcovers, so its corresponding library e-price is higher than the aforesaid price ranges)

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.»

Also, in the same press release, an Amazon Spokesman told us that «For the top 10 bestselling books on Amazon.com, customers are choosing Kindle books over hardcover and paperback books combined at a rate of greater than 2 to 1.

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.

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...]

Simon & Schuster License: Expires after one year, then must repurchase (experimenting with 2 yr term for 1.5 x price) Prices: Generally more than consumer cost, but less than hardcover

But I expect to pay less for an ebook than a hardcover, and so do most people.

DM: I agree on hardcover vs. ebook pricing — it does seem silly, and I have a harder time parting with $ 13 or $ 14 for an ebook than I do with $ 25 for a hardcover; call it the psychology of buying a physical good instead of a virtual one.

* No more than a few weeks after a hardcover hits print, used copies show up on Amazon for less than the discounted Amazon price.

But for Rector's other books, such as «The Cold Kiss,» published by Macmillan in 2010, the Kindle price is $ 11.99, higher than the $ 7.99 mass market paperback price and just slightly less than the $ 16.49 hardcover price (Amazon includes a disclaimed that the price was set by Macmillan).

This Kindle edition actually costs 48 cents more than its hardcover edition, which is still well below the standard price for new hardcovers.

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

Just as, with a paperback, you pay less than for a hardcover but get a less durable book.

That means that Penguin Publishing is selling Ms. Krentz's ebook for only $ 2.27 less than the hardcover edition.

I've purchased over a hundred books since they changed the pricing and almost all of them were more expensive for the the ebook than the discounted hardcover or paperback.

Authors and agents will immediately note that much of the additional profit exists because the royalty allocation once earned out is $ 1.58 lower on the ebook than for the hardcover.

I look for them now first on the Kindle.I'm willing to pay whatever they cost since I would have bought the book in whatever format but it's nice when it costs less than a traditional hardcover.

Recently Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com announced that ebooks for his Kindle platform sold more copies than hardcover books in the Amazon store.

In his previous book, «The 4 - Hour Workweek: Escape 9 - 5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich» (his subtitles are awesome), which was on the hardcover advice best - seller list for more than 75 weeks, he delivered tips like (I'm exaggerating only slightly): hire an overseas virtual assistant for a few bucks an hour and use the extra time to ski in the Andes.

Although they received the full wholesale value of each book sold by Amazon, publishers didn't want $ 9.99 to catch on as the new default price for e-books, especially since this was so much lower than hardcovers.