Sentences with phrase «than physical books»

Further, e-books * ARE * worth less than physical books for the very fact that they are not physical.

Add in reading lights so that they aren't dependent on natural light (we do want to do better than physical books).

The royalties from my eBooks are definitely much higher than my physical books.

Especially in a world where we now have eBooks, rather than physical books.

Because far more ebooks are sold every day than physical books.

A study found that people retain less information if read on a tablet or an eReader than a physical book.

Considering the lack of space I currently have, and the difficulty I have in letting things go, being able to stack digital files is a lot easier than physical books.

So while the current readers are not perfect, they are better than physical books.

My argument is that when eBooks are done right they so much cheaper than physical books (40 - 50 % cheaper) that if they were reasonably priced they'd turn hardcovers into high - end items.

Customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books for the first time on Christmas Day, Amazon said.

I dislike the Kindle, for a variety of reasons, but it's hugely popular and Amazon sold more ebooks than physical books last year on it, so I've made my books available that way.

Ebooks, whether on an ereader, an iPad or a smartphone, are a vastly more convenient experience than physical books and are most certainly the way of the future.

On Saturday, for example, Amazon announced that on Christmas Day its customers bought more Kindle books than physical books for the first time ever.

Between several major publishers not allowing lending and others pricing e-books for libraries at a much higher price than physical books and another publisher limiting the number of times an e-book can be loaned before a new license is required (in the low 20s), library budgets are being hard hit.

The main reasons why the comics are going to experience a price increase this April is because physical copies of these books will finally come with a «free» digital copy of the same issue, allowing readers to maintain a physical collection alongside building a digital library of books, an avenue of comics reading that's become steadily more popular than physical books in recent years.

Book bloggers may also be more predisposed to reviewing and running giveaways of your book if it's in eBook form, as it's easier to send a digital file than a physical book.

Amazon also points out that e-books are cheaper to produce than physical books.

Also it's far easier to trade an eBook than a physical book which has to be posted, etc so it's more of a hassle and often not as cheap as buying a new book when postage is included, also they get damaged and worn and often readers want a good condition book.

I also agree that it is much easier to tote around Weber's works on my kindle or tablet than the physical book.

The household library should not be anymore beholden to one vendor than those physical books you had / have on your shelves.

Your fingers actually rest perfectly between the middle fold of the back grooves, making it easier to hold than a physical book for long periods of time.

For some years now, there has been an ongoing debate on the question of whether E Ink and LCD eReaders are greener than physical books.

Ebooks are vastly cheaper than physical books and therefore enormously threatening to publishers» margins.

I find it extremely difficult to imagine what the real or symbolic significance is in Amazon's hyperbolic «On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.»

Ebook prices usually trend much less than soft or hardcover alternatives, so if you have an ebook version, it is often (but not always) priced less than a physical book.

This was after Amazon stated that they were selling more e-books than physical books.

Amazon now sells more Kindle ebooks than physical books every single day.

It works a lot like a normal library, but with Kindle eBooks rather than physical books.

For the first time ever, more eBooks were sold on Christmas Day than physical books.

«Ebooks, whether on an e-reader, an iPad or a smartphone, are a vastly more convenient experience than physical books and are most certainly the way of the future,» Mashable's chief correspondent and tech guru Lance Ulanoff wrote in response to the news.

Only when authors conceive of eBooks as something different than a physical book (which, we've established, aren't going anywhere), will eBooks really take off and come into their own.

Definitely one of the advantages of selling eBooks over physical books, albeit most buyers are looking to purchase eBooks at a much lower price than physical books.

And there's a social layer that forms around this, another timeline of reading reviews and discussing with friends, that the ebook could actually exploit better than the physical book, if we work on it some more.

One experiment that I'd like to see would be an eBook price that starts HIGHER than the physical book but is available slightly earlier.

The fact that e-book prices then became almost as costly (and at times more so) than physical books is pretty much proof positive that collusion took place.

FISHERWell, that sounds like an argument for e-books being rather dramatically cheaper than physical books.

The Kno Store provides digital textbooks 30 - 50 % cheaper than physical books.

they are cheaper than physical books to make — cover design and conversion usually takes less time, therefore less money.

I won't bother pointing out that ebooks are more ecologically friendly — something that the New York intelligentsia champions — than physical books.

It's much better than a physical book, because obviously if you put your physical book in a Ziploc bag you can't turn the pages.