Sentences with phrase «than paper books»

I read the kindle edition, which is cheaper than the paper book.

So the real question is, are e-readers more environmentally friendly than paper books?

The book contents are changed into electronic versions, and are sold online at a price much lower than paper books, even some of them are free of charge.

It is as good as paper and better than some paper books that have text that is a bit light.

I don't have the space and its easier carrying an ereader around than a paper book.

One thing I do know if that reading a book on an LCD screen is a lot more straining on my eyes than paper books.

Also the way we consume, share, and interact with e-books is going to be different than paper books.

In this regard, e-readers clearly have more potential than paper books.

Those numbers are even more impressive when you consider they're measuring dollar figures, and e-books generally cost less than paper books, so e-books» percentage of total copies sold would be even higher.

Most comments agreed with my thoughts: Ebooks should be less expensive than paper books because of DRM, ownership, quality, and physicality issues.

Well as for how big the market is — I don't have any hard and fast numbers for you but Amazon sold more ebooks than paper books this year, and Smashwords (an ebook distributor) publishes over 70,000 ebooks and counting.

The problem is — there is no scarcity, readers have all the power, ebooks cost less to make and sell than paper books and everyone knows it, there is infinite competition, readers aren't stupid.

With a kindle, for example, the experiential learning process is qualitatively inferior than a paper book.

Macmillan wants e-books to be sold differently than paper books using essentially a consignment model (please correct me if my analogy is flawed).

easier to handle than a paper book.

Claims that the Amazon Kindle electronic reader is more environmentally friendly than paper books hold up, according to an analysis by the Cleantech Group.

The Continuing Legal Education of the State Bar of Texas is making an effort to make all CLE materials available as PDF files rather than paper books or loose - leaf binders, which I applaud.

eBooks are much cheaper than paper books and if the real price difference was reflected in list prices people would not be willing to pay the premium for paper books.

Next biggest factors were price lower than paper books (16.84 %), simple to use (11.09 %), and lots of books available (10.31 %).

In a recent study done by the CleanTech Groupfindings show that the Amazon Kindle is more eco friendly than paper books.

Most comments agreed with my thoughts: Ebooks should be less expensive than paper books because -LSB-...]

eReaders and eBooks are going to continue to grow because they are much more convenient than paper books.

It also does some things much better than a paper book, including providing its own light source, making it easy to adjust text size, keeping your place intact for several books at once, and holding lots of books in a small space.

And Lori, here's my issue with e-books: Publishers can come up with all sorts of reasons why they charge what they do, but if people perceive an e-book as worth less than a paper book — and people do, for very valid reasons — then they won't be willing to pay as much.

Wow, if you artificially jack up the price of e-books so that they cost more than paper books, people are more likely to buy paper books!

The report, entitled «The Impact of Ebooks on the Reading Motivation and Reading Skills of Children and Young People», found that boys enjoyed reading ebooks more than paper books, which also made them feel more confident in their reading ability.

Actually, I believe Amazon states that your ebook listing must be 20 % lower than your PAPER book, not than your ebook listing elsewhere.

In his annual program session on current ereaders, Keith Fahlgren of Threepress Consulting noted that while «the first Kindle didn't really offer that much more than a paper book,» there is much more to come in the form of networks of ereaders.

But in general I personally think that $ 5.27 is a perfectly reasonable price for an ebook, and I think most readers EXPECT that an ebook, with no distribution costs or retail middle - man to pay, should be less than a paper book.

Primarily, it's less expensive to publish and distribute e-books than paper books.

Without support for citations without losing one's location because the reader software / device has reflowed the text for a particular device, eBooks are less than paper books.

the woman is a fool, yes the should be cheaper than paper books, but no where near pennies, authors do have to eat!

Look, little boys and girls — Ebooks are now much more expensive than paper books.

Kudos to the law firm for correctly going after the Publishers and Apple, for pointing out that ebooks should cost less than paper books, and for pointing out cases where ebooks now miraculously cost more than paper books.

E-books are cheaper than paper books and indie e-books are much cheaper than traditionally published books.

[158] While an e-reader costs more than most individual books, e-books may have a lower cost than paper books.

Amazon now sells more copies of e-books than paper books.

In a recent study done by the CleanTech Group findings show that the Amazon Kindle is more eco friendly than paper books.

While it may sound impressive to say more e-books than paper books were sold on Christmas Day, I have to wonder about this claim.