Door pockets are strangely shaped, fitting a bottle of water in the front section, and then little more
than a paperback book further back.
In any case — the ebook, which you do not own and can be taken away from your ereader any time, usually is only 1 to 2 Euros
cheaper than a paperback.
We are limited on how much we carry on our expedition kayak tours but as long as the power pack is no
larger than a paperback book it should be fine.
Perhaps one concern is if you ordinarily receive a much higher royalty for e-book
sales than paperback sales.
Therefore, for me as a reading choice, a reader makes more sense because in its protective case, it'll take a lot more
abuse than a paperback or trade will.
A hardcover book will appear larger
than a paperback with the same book trim size because the hardcover itself is larger than the pages.
If the profits from e-books become high enough, it's possible that we will be purchasing e-book readers for as much, or less,
than a paperback book costs today.
Amazon has published its Q4 2010 financial results, and has revealed that it is now selling more Kindle
ebooks than paperback books.
But for vacationing consumers, e-books are the more popular choice: 53 % of e-reader owners say they prefer to pack e-books
rather than paperbacks for reading on the beach.
And I don't think I'd pay more than $ 6.99 for an ebook because I believe they're worth less
than a paperback for all the reasons I listed above.
Their profit margins on hardcovers are
bigger than paperbacks and ebooks, ergo it's in their interest to protect hardcover sales.
Barely 6 months after stating its Kindle e-books were outselling its selection of hardcovers, Amazon announced it sold more ebooks for the Kindle e-reader
than paperbacks in 2010.
Its title: «The Joke's Over, You Can Come Back Now: How This Widow Plowed Through Grief and Survived» is almost
longer than the paperback, which claims 75 percent of us are widowed by age 56.
21 % smaller than its predecessor, the Kindle is
slimmer than a paperback book and at 247g, light enough to carry in a bag and hold in one hand.
After this, Amazon introduced the short - lived Kindle DX, a large - format e-reader that didn't catch on, partly because the market for larger - format reading (articles, journals) wasn't as large or ready to spend
money than the paperback - buying contingent.
We download thousands of papers legally; ditto WPs, UMs, reference guides... all larger and more
complex than a paperback.
DC2 Multiverse, on the other hand, will basically be choose - your - own adventure comics for digital (which should be a lot easier to
follow than paperbacks that constantly have you flipping to another page half a book away).
A new European study has found that Kindle owners have a harder time recalling key plot
points than paperback readers.
And if launching the book in 9 different formats ALL require writing and editing, why am I paying MORE
than the paperback buyer?
In the world of print publishing, this is of vital importance when a book store needs to re-stock a book: the ISBN is what allows them to order, say, the hardcover 2nd edition of a book rather
than the paperback 1st edition.
We've been given to understand that the hardcover has an artificially inflated value (costing mere pennies per unit more to
produce than the paperback), and that this artificial inflation is crucial to the success of the book.