Sentences with phrase «things as print books»

Steven Saus presents Keep It Simple In Your eBook Design (With A Practical Example) posted at ideatrash, saying, «It's important to remember that eBook design is not the same thing as print book design.

Not exact matches

Referring to Powers of Ten as an inspiration, he added that «doing it in a printed book slows things down, in a good way.»

Which is an awfully cruel thing to say to somebody who labored just as hard to get her epubbed book written as the authors who are in print.

As things stand right now, even printed books aren't that popular in South Africa owning to their high price tag, something that can be attributed to the 14 percent VAT.

Those who preferred printed books cited things like the smell, the feel and the weight as reasons.

Nowadays, with nearly 30 years of seeing my byline attached to things I've written and having authored a 3 volume encyclopedia and a history book, I still get that same ethereal shiver every time I look at my name in print or online because I know that having it there represents the faith an editor has placed in my abilities as a writer, or researcher, or reporter...

Yes, eBooks are a good thing as it makes more books available to more readers and without the cost of printing and distribution.

Germany is hoping to convince the EU that when you buy an e-book, its the same thing as buying a print book.

The internet has enabled dictionaries to expand far beyond the limitations of print books — you no longer have to worry about things line breaks or page counts — but it also pushes lexicographers to work faster even as it completely upends the business side of things.

You'll not only learn exactly what you need to know about book design, but also about things specific to book publishing, such as title and copyright pages, ISBN and bar code, page count for printing, marketing considerations, plus how to choose the best type of printing for your book.

I also updated the print files for all my other fiction books with the name changes as part of the series in the back matter and took the opportunity to update my Author Bio and other small things while I was there.

It's important to decide on a suitable trim size earlier on in your book production as it's required to determine such things as; the cost to print and ship it and how many pages it might have.

Lots of books were printed, lots of stores bought them — and as long as the balloon didn't pop, things could remain unrealistically status quo.

I'm starting to think that eBooks will eventually fade away mostly and that it'll become more something of fan fiction or erotica, things people can't easily find in print or are too bashful to read in public as a print book.

When a market first develops, the early adopters are willing to forgive things because they're the techies and they know this is new, but as the market broadens the people who usually read print books aren't going to stand for this.

I don't know if you can blame it on just technology because I do the same thing with print books as well.

Usually bookstores ignore that date and sell LSI books as soon as they become available for printing, but I guess Amazon.ca does things differently.

Pre-orders and publisher push (ie, anointing Author A as the next big thing while Author B is not given the same push) determine print runs as well as the number of books sold vs. the number printed for the previous book by that author.

I still like reading print book periodically myself and that's — there are some things that just never are never going to work very well as an e-book.

And they needed authors who were willing to experiment with things like free promotions, bundling print and ebooks, and offering their books as part of subscription services.

Librarians (and patrons) often make it difficult to work through issues associated with ebooks by doggedly assuming that ebooks will work the same way as printed books in terms of their economic impact, and by insisting therefore that the things they've done with print should carry over largely unchanged to ebooks.

As traditional publishers look to prune their booklists and rely increasingly on blockbuster best sellers, self - publishing companies are ramping up their title counts and making money on books that sell as few as five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costAs traditional publishers look to prune their booklists and rely increasingly on blockbuster best sellers, self - publishing companies are ramping up their title counts and making money on books that sell as few as five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costas few as five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costas five copies, in part because the author, rather than the publisher, pays for things like cover design and printing costs.

The latter will mean Createspace is listed as your distributor in things like Books In Print.

One of the things that bothers me most about vanity publishing of any stripe — from the old - fashioned vanities that shipped you boxes of books to molder away in your basement, to the print on demand self - publishing services that are trying to re-brand themselves as «indie» publishers or «assisted publishing», to the sleazy deceptive pay - to - play companies that pass themselves off as «real» publishers — is that they take advantage of authors twice: first by taking their money, second by brainwashing them into believing all the deceptive hype.

With a «standard» contract (as if there is such a thing), you «earn out» that advance at a rate of 10 % of the price of a print book, and 25 % of the publisher's net on an ebook.

It's when you get into books that have lots of worksheets and that really would require someone — if they were in print someone would be sitting there writing, filling in a worksheet or writing content in the book, that's the kind of thing you really can't do as an e-book very well, that really should be kept as a PDF file.

But that has it's own context, as traditional publishers haven't got the whole digital thing yet and consistently price digital books at the same or similar price as their print books.

If you want to take your content and make it look the same as a print book, there's still a lot of things you just can't do yet.

For production, ebooks demand the same as print books in terms of writing, editing, and proofing, but nowhere near the same in terms of other things that go into making an attractive printed book.

i myself like print books for some things («Books to Die For» edited by John Connolly), audio for others (my own includ'd), and ebooks for the vast majority, so as always, i wish the best for all of us: — RRB - thanks again so much pbooks for some things («Books to Die For» edited by John Connolly), audio for others (my own includ'd), and ebooks for the vast majority, so as always, i wish the best for all of us: — RRB - thanks again so much pBooks to Die For» edited by John Connolly), audio for others (my own includ'd), and ebooks for the vast majority, so as always, i wish the best for all of us: — RRB - thanks again so much porter

I can't give it away as easily, I can't show it off on my bookshelf — I can do a lot of different things with the print book I'm buying that I can't do with the ebook.»

When that happens, it will be another nail in the coffin of the traditional publishing houses. I laugh when they say that the cost of producing ebooks is the same as print books ignoring the cost of paper and shipping while pointing out the cost of things like cover designs.

These things were such a huge success, and as I mentioned previously, single - handedly boosting print book publishing last year, that publishers will expand them in number as well as branch out to other formerly youthful books.

That's a small thing that I've never really seen a game offer, but it's an easy way to expand the player base — books and magazines have large print options, so why not make it an option for a video game as well?

Consumerism Is Not an Either - Or Game What I've come to realize is that in the printed - books versus e-books challenge (as with so many other things in our increasingly digitized world) it is not an either - or situation.

And then there's this sort of thing: my very old short article printed by Blanche Evans when she was at Realty Times, and later reprinted in her Dearborn published real estate book, as