Most comments agreed with my thoughts: Ebooks should be less expensive
than paper books because -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
We found that board
books are the best in the stroller
because their pages don't turn on their own in the wind, are a little more weather resistant
than plain
paper books, and are easy for little fingers to manipulate without any help.
Board
books are slightly different
than regular
paper books because they are harder to destroy, making them the perfect accompaniment for your child as they age into toddlerhood.
The
book also urges researchers not to publish the same work in more
than one journal or to slice it into several
papers to increase their publication count,
because doing so is an improper use of reviewers and editors» time and dilutes the value of the scientific literature.
But I'd be hard - pressed to tell you when I've had more
than two days in a row where I haven't had to stop a lesson
because of one or two students who are bent on disrupting the entire class, where I've been able to start a class on time
because every student was ready with
book,
paper, and pencil, or where I didn't have to stop my lesson repeatedly to tell different students throughout the period to please get their heads up and that it's hard to read along when their eyes are closed.
I have a friend that has to have all the newest gadgets, yet is waiting for my
book to come out in paperback
because she likes reading on
paper better
than electronic.
Clearly the expectation that ebooks should cost a lot less
than paper copies of the
books because of lower marginal costs of production doesn't match the reality that marginal cost of production really IS marginal even for
paper books.
This is very much more important
than with
paper books because there is so much more competition in the electronic field
than there is in the
paper field.
The bigger problem for authors are the publishing houses themselves
because with the decline in
paper books, it simply makes no sense for an author to turn over the majority of her profits to one of these places and * that * costs the author far more
than piracy.
It's so much better
than dealing with
paper tablature
books because they are a major hassle to keep upright and open to the right page without a dedicated stand and page holder.
I don't give a rat's behind what
books are and aren't offered in Kindle format,
because I don't have any plans to start reading anything other
than paper books for the foreseeable future.
All right, this is really bad news for all those who scorn e-
books because they love the smell and rustle of
paper — Amazon is now selling more
books on its Kindle e-book reader
than print editions.
The focus on sales of eBook readers is misleading,
because the first challenge is to change the
book itself, so that it delivers far more value
than the
paper edition with which we are familiar.
All the real sustainable competitive advantages are ones that Indie Authors can build better
than Publishers or Platforms —
because they have no baggage and no existing
paper book markets to protect.
eReaders and eBooks are going to continue to grow
because they are much more convenient
than paper books.
I got an ereader mostly
because I noticed I'd almost stopped buying new
books for the simple reason that I'm running out of room for them, but I found it actually more pleasant to read on that
than on
paper.
It seems to me that
paper books are more fungible
than ebooks
because mushrooms prefer the more biodegradable food source.
Because I can purchase a paperback copy of the same
book for LESS
than that; I can sell that
paper book BACK somewhere or loan it to MULTIPLE friends; and let's be honest — the profit margin on a digital
book is extraordinarily different
than on a print
book.
We make more from each ebook sale
than my wife ever made from each
paper or ebook sale when she was traditionally published, and she sells way more
books also
because they are lower priced.