Sentences with phrase «than paperbacks in»

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.

Not exact matches

With more than 1 million hardcover copies sold, the book is now updated, annotated and available in paperback.

When it was re-released in 2004, it rocketed once again to the top, holding a place on BusinessWeek's Best Seller list for paperback business books for more than 20 months.

It's only $ 2 less than the paperback, and he is killing me in paperback sales)... And he claims to be non-violent... Ha!

Another time I tweeted that my book was selling better on Kindle than in paperback, and the first response was «Maybe introverts are just thrifty.»

Pyramid editor Leslie Schwartz indicates one reason for the vast volume of religious paperback sales: «Rather than [in] a specifically religious bookstore, these books are sold in very open, public places.

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good maIn the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good main shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

If you prefer paperback books like I do, you can get in on Amazon as well for less than $ 15 (And if you want the paperback, you can get free shipping by joining Amazon Prime for free for 30 days!)

Our first advice to tyro voyagers in the Savoie: The items you will need most are 1) a car with front - wheel drive and chains, since you will be driving on some of the steepest, slipperiest, narrowest goat paths in the civilized world, and 2) a really thick — no less than two inches — paperback French and English dictionary.

It's a big book — bigger in size than your normal paperback, and over 300 pages.

Check your library's early reading section; it typically features a large collection of baby - pleasing titles in paperback that are easier to tote along than board books.

We seem far less appreciative of time spent with noses in handheld DXs than in paperbacks.

From Leonardo da Vinci's exquisite pen - and - ink drawings of the human skeleton to the digital Visible Human Project in its three - dimensional glory, this fascinating book, now in paperback, documents more than 500 years of anatomical illustration in living color.

But home video audiences helped rescue an often clunky but enjoyably unusual B - movie, which in its new 2K transfer looks more than ever like a dime - store paperback cover come to live.

Schoenarts certainly looks the part of a paperback romantic hero, but the script's insistence on presenting Bruno simply as a good man in a bad situation are bland at best and disingenuous at worst, and leave the character less neutral than neutered.

Door pockets are strangely shaped, fitting a bottle of water in the front section, and then little more than a paperback book further back.

At 10.3 ounces, Kindle is lighter and thinner than a typical paperback and fits easily in one hand, yet its built - in memory stores more than 200 titles, and hundreds more with an optional SD memory card.

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.

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.

This has resulted in the paperback being significantly more affordable than the digital edition and readers are gravitatating back to print.

The numbers speak for themselves: So far, the trilogy has sold more than 250,000 copies, in both paperbacks and eBooks.

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.

You can find books, where the price for the ebook is actually higher than for the paperback, so why should someone buy an inferior product (in terms of ownership)?

Meanwhile paperback sales have increased by 8.9 % giving further credence that people are switching back to print in greater numbers than originally thought.

Not to mention the fact that an e-reader is a little more valuable than your average trashy paperback and might be a tempting theft target, especially if you leave it unguarded while you go in for a dip.

The print version of Unraveled is a trade paperback — which means it's larger than the mass markets I've come out in before (no way to get around that), and, unfortunately, pricier.

A «page,» according to the KENP algorithm, seems to be somewhat shorter than a normal paperback page: my novel City of Sand is 255 pages long in paperback, using a 6 x 9 trim with standard margins and font size.

Kindle is lighter than most paperback books, making it easy and comfortable to hold in one hand for longer.

Looking at sales by format, trade paperbacks — the format that holds adult coloring books — had a 4.01 % gain in unit sales over 2015, which is slightly less than 2015 (5 %).

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.

According to Tracy, most of the paperback sales are in trade paperback, rather than the smaller mass - market or pocket edition — those have mostly been replaced by the ebook.

The company said that in all of 2010, it sold 15 % more Kindle e-books than paperbacks.

With an ebook reader, you can fit your personal library on a thinner - than - paperback - size device — one that's easy to toss in a bag and hold one - handed — and recharge only every few weeks.

The price advantage that e-books have had in the West will not likely be an immediate differentiator in India, since trade books have traditionally been priced much lower than in other territories ($ 2 — $ 6 for paperbacks).

In short, the argument that ebook versions of a novel should cost way less than paperback novels due to a lower marginal cost of production simply doesn't match the actual numbers.

Likewise, I factor that in with paperbacks (which, as established, are much more accessible to me than digital currently as a low vision person).

I got a lot more per book in royalties than that from New York on a paperback sale.

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.

I found I read more books on my iPad than I'd been reading in hardback or paperback.

Ebooks could have been a transformative sea change in how we read books but instead are nothing more than a second - rate alternative to cheap paperbacks.

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In practice, ebooks are regularly priced similarly or even more expensively than their own paperback versions.

More than likely they would be happy with 3,000 copies, a decent paperback sale, and some overseas sales bought in the contract, with e-book sales, to make the author's advance back.

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.

Graves added that, «we can now have access to any print format or digital product in seconds rather than weeks, this gives us the ability to challenge the traditional route to market, if we choose we can publish our content digitally first then re-flow into hardback or paperback book formats for any English - speaking market in seconds.»

Can anyone tell me in simple layman terms how to get the e-books I've just paid premium (read: more than paperback price!)

In less than a month, more than 10,000 community volunteers will venture out into their cities and towns, armed with a total of 500,000 paperback books.

My husband and I bought our own book in paperback as a novelty item, but other than that, no.

I've found Pressbooks are actually easier on the eye: because with the slightly larger page dimension, the type is slightly less cramped than in a typical trade paperback.

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.»