Sentences with phrase «than the paperback price»

I will pay more than $ 2.99 for a good book but I won't pay more than the paperback price.

I refuse to pay more than paperback price once the paperback has been released.

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

When the ebook price is higher than the paperback price I refuse to buy the ebook.

However, any author who turns his back on readers, who makes readers wait a year to get decently priced books, who makes readers pay more for ebooks than the paperback price, who trumpets how much more important Publishers are — Well, that author can look forward to some real character - building experiences once the revolution has run its course.

Not exact matches

I wish that Logos would become competitive here and sell their digital books for significantly less than the paperback books, and maybe even do some sort of price matching with Amazon Kindle eBooks.

Fortunately, you can get the whole series for less than the price of a trade paperback, and comparable to the price of many mass market paperbacks!

You are right that production and distribution costs per unit are less for ebooks than for paperbacks, but authors have the same 2 % to 12.5 % earnings of the list price of the book.

Says Maria Harrison, whose trade paperback of less than 200 pages was priced at $ 24.95, «Why would anyone want to buy an overpriced book from an unknown author when they can buy a wonderful book by a best - selling writer for less than ten dollars?

When I look through the Kindle store and see ebooks priced higher than the paperback and hardcover, it seems to me that they are trying to push readers back to that more traditional medium.

But some author mills inflate prices even beyond that point, charging higher - than - hardcover prices for trade paperback - size books.

Every major online retailer is selling the digital edition for a higher price than the paperback.

Then often the ebook price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then than the price for the hardcover book, later when you can buy the paperback it is usually cheaper than the ebook, because that was priced after the hardcover and since book prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.

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)?

Most of them are priced well below their print counterparts, normally around 20 % lower than the paperback version.

If you're the sort of reader who prefers to charge through a completed series rather than waiting for the next one to come out, you can now do so — and since Carina's prices are quite good, you can read the whole trilogy on your device for about the cost of a paperback!

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).

Hmm, going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good ebook price being 75 % of the paper version, I wonder if some of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or trade paperback version rather than the mass paperback format.

I kept the ebook price well below my paperback on the belief I have held as a reader — that the ebook costs a lot less than a paperback to produce and distribute.

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

That gives Apple more price flexibility, and should hopefully avoid absurd situations where the digital version costs much more than the paperback.

This week's Question of the Week is «Would you buy an e-book if it was priced higher than the paperback or hardcover?

I would have sold the paperback edition on Amazon for less than $ 5.95 if I could, but that price represents not only the true power of the pricing we offer — where else can you find a 108 page paperback on Amazon, new, for $ 5.95?

In some cases, the agency model dictates that the price of an e-book is higher than its corresponding trade paperback edition, despite the significant savings in printing and distributing costs offered by e-books.

When the paperback comes out the ebook costs more than the paperback.B5 pricing pushed me to libraries and independent authors for ebooks.

Personally, I say no higher than $ 2 below the mass - market paperback price (so $ 7.99 for backlist, for the most part).

This creates an environment where most new hardcovers cost less than the e-book on the day it comes out and when the paperback edition is eventually released the price is normally halved, while the e-book price will never change.

Grant you, the small screen and 320x320 resolution takes time to get used to, but I can read almost any format (some need converting, but that's quite easy), but its cheaper than the Kindle and I can read any book I want, not only those that Amazon wants to sell me at a paperback price.

If you had asked included «ebooks should cost the same as hardcovers» and «ebooks should cost the same as paperbacks» and «ebooks should cost less than paperbacks», I think you would have gotten more specific, useful data about what book buyers think regarding ebook prices.

Otherwise, I'll keep on going to half price books precisely because the price points aren't there for electronic publishing to make it worth my time, and I honestly don't have the funds to pay for more than a handful of trade paperback book editions.

And what all four of these books have in common (besides being mystery and thrilled novels) is the fact that their Kindle editions are priced significantly lower than their paperback editions, whereas that's not the case for the authors» earlier books from other publishers.

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But for Rector's other books, such as «The Cold Kiss,» published by Macmillan in 2010, the Kindle price is $ 11.99, higher than the $ 7.99 mass market paperback price and just slightly less than the $ 16.49 hardcover price (Amazon includes a disclaimed that the price was set by Macmillan).

Trade paperbacks may be a little more expensive than mass market, but they seem to be that happy middle ground where the libraries will take them, and readers will still buy them, especially if a few bucks are knocked off the price at amazon.com

Like many publishers, though Dynamite is holding back a bit on digital comics in order to protect the direct market: All same - day releases are priced the same as print for 30 days, and trade paperbacks are released 30 days later in digital than in print.

Where other categories of fiction are pricing ebooks at trade paperback prices at best, or above hardback prices at worst (who in Hel's Misty Halls do they justify charging more for an ebook than for a hardback?)

I haunt the freebie lists because I currently don't have the money to buy more than maybe one, or sometimes two to three if we are talking the cheaper paperbacks, traditionally priced book per month and that's not enough.

You get a higher percentage royalty on your Kindle book sales, as high as 70 % on books priced over $ 2.99, but Kindle books are usually priced lower than paperback and other formats.

I've purchased over a hundred books since they changed the pricing and almost all of them were more expensive for the the ebook than the discounted hardcover or paperback.

However, many retails discount the bound copies of paperback best - sellers or expected best - sellers, bringing the price lower than that of the e-book — sometimes as low as $ 5.99.

When I can so often go out and buy a physical paperback of a traditionally published book more cheaply than I can it's ebook version, there's something seriously wrong with the «legitimate» pricing structure.

If the paperback royalty plus the MatchBook royalty amount to less than your current e-book royalty, then you might prefer to either raise your paperback list price, or not opt into the program.

Amazon really should make sure that no books are being sold at higher prices than paperback editions — that's irreparable damage to the Kindle's image as a money saver.

Is it that all Kindle editions are now priced higher than paperbacks, or is it that the books Amazon selected just happen to have higher prices for the Kindle editions?

Trade paperback is an industry term that lets readers know the book is made of higher quality materials, produced in a larger size and offered at a higher price than mass - market paperbacks.

«Pricing e-books higher than mass market paperbacks used to cost is having an even more deleterious effect on reading habits.»

The New York Times's publishing industry reporter Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 For the people that are price sensitive — if you're not somebody that reads digitally because you prefer that, because you find it more convenient — but you're maybe a hybrid reader, you might get a paperback if it's significantly cheaper than an -LSB-...]

Joe Konrath on A Newbie's Guide to Publishing Ebook Pricing «Bottom line: I can make more money selling $ 2.99 ebooks on my own than I can selling $ 7.99 paperbacks or $ 25 hardcovers with a publisher.

Still, many self - publishing companies allow authors to take more than the traditional royalty of 15 percent of the cover price on hardcovers and 10 percent or less on paperbacks.

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