So why exactly do so many e-book readers think that they are entitled to an e-book edition in their preferred format at the same
time as the hardcover for less than half the price?
Since Apple is willing to play along with eBooks at $ 14.99 they get those at the same
time as the hardcover is released (via Big Money)--
Do we release ebooks at the same
time as the hardcover, but discount the ebook?
Not exact matches
He is the author of the New York
Times best - seller The Paleo Cure (published in
hardcover as Your Personal Paleo Code).
If you have been conducting a job search with the
hardcover edition of this «breezy new book for job hunters,»
as Time magazine (of
Time Inc., rated one of the 10 best companies) reviewed it, you may have knocked on some wrong doors.
He is the author of the New York
Times best - seller The Paleo Cure (published in
hardcover as Your Personal Paleo Code).
Dark Horse Comics has announced that Eisner - award winning creator Mark Buckingham (Fables) is adapting four of New York
Times best - selling author Neil Gaiman's prose short stories for the upcoming graphic novel anthology Likely Stories, to be published
as a
hardcover original graphic novel by Dark Horse Book later this year.
In my spare
time, I write science fiction; my first novel Duplicate is available
as an eBook, paperback, or
hardcover.
Given the growing affordability of e-readers
as well
as current book - buying trends — e-book sales surpassed
hardcover sales in the U.S. for the first
time in June, according to the Association of American Publishers — a bookless library makes a good deal of sense in the year 2013.
For all of 2010, it sold three
times as many Kindle e-books
as hardcovers.
Hardcover: A book in the classic sense with a sturdy cover and spine,
as it was already made at the
time of Gutenberg.
It seems that this week has been good to new authors,
as two debut novels will make a very exciting debut — on the New York
Times» best - selling
Hardcover Fiction list.
So,
as a control, I searched on the current New York
Times best seller list for
hardcover fiction.
From the beginning of his
time as a self - published author, John Locke knew he would not be able to keep up with the «big boys and girls in their arena of
hardcover and paperback books.»
As we have noted, the book was first published in
hardcover in 2010 and spent over a year on the New York
Times hardcover and trade paperback best seller lists.
IngramSpark supports
hardcovers, paperbacks and ebooks and uploading a print book and an ebook into your account at the same
time costs the same amount
as just uploading a print book alone.
Nothing on earth compares to opening a new
hardcover for the first
time, the resistance that the book gives
as you pull its covers back to slip into what it holds inside.
Therefore, the trend with paperbacks — which used to mean sometimes
as much
as a year or more following the release of the title in
hardcover — is to decrease the amount of
time it takes for a title to reach the trade paperback consumer.
At that
time, publishers made a killing on frontlist e-book sales
as compared to frontlist
hardcover sales — at the author's expense — because,
as compared to today, the price of e-books was relatively high.
A recent notable exception was Walter Issacsson» Steve Jobs biography which was offered
as an e-book at the same
time, albeit at the same price,
as the
hardcover edition (in Japan the biography was published in two parts with a combined price of $ 50 compared to a street price of about $ 17 in the US).
Additionally, during this same
time period the Company has sold three
times as many Kindle books
as hardcover books.
What's more, in January 2011, online retailer Amazon.com reported that it sold three
times as many Kindle books
as hardcover books.
Additionally, during this same
time period the company has sold three
times as many Kindle books
as hardcover books.
On the one hand, charging the same price (or more) for an e-book
as a
hardcover seems ludicrous, but at the same
time, the publishing industry has long struggled to survive,
as there is little if any money in books these days.
Take, for instance, last week's New York
Times graphic books list — its formula is
as mysterious
as the cause of the zombie outbreak — where collected editions of The Walking Dead accounted for three of the 10
hardcover titles and four of the 10 paperback titles.
The number of Kindle books (e-books) sold by Amazon.com has outpaced the number of
hardcover books 143 to 100 over the past three months, the company said, and it has sold three
times as many Kindle books in the first half of this year
as compared to the first half of last year.
Related reading: Deirdre Donahue at USA Today reports that Fifty Shades of Grey gets its
hardcover publication on January 29 --» just in
time for Valentine's Day,»
as Donahue puts it.
As has already been explained, most of Hachette's books aren't
hardcovers, only a percentage of Hachette's books are going to be bestsellers, and like everybody else, Hachette drops the price of the e-books over
time.
While e-book sales have been leveling off
as they absorbed the replacement audience for mass market paperbacks — because e-book prices are cheap in mass market territory — the sector of e-books that have been selling the best are the first - run new bestsellers — the ones with the highest e-book prices initially (although those prices come down over
time, just like a paperback edition and the e-book prices are lower than
hardcover and trade paper usually.)
«After Fern Reiss's six - month book publicity campaign, my publisher had to print 3
times as many
hardcover books
as they had planned, and we are now planning a paperback edition,
as well.
This isn't the same
as paperback versions vs
hardcover — where the platform and convenience are the same — the
timing and pricing are the key ingredients.
Throughout all of last year Amazon sold 115 Kindle ebooks for every 100 paperbacks sold, and three
times as many Kindle books
as hardcovers — considering paperback sales continued to grow and free Kindle ebooks were omitted that's even more impressive.
To see what Amazon's pricing looks like alongside EPUB - selling rivals WHSmith and Waterstones, we compared the top 5 titles from the New York
Times best selling
hardcover fiction list (prices
as at the date of this review publication).
Kindle book sales continue to outpace
hardcover sales,
as well; during the same
time period, three
times as many Kindle books were sold
as were
hardcover books (including sales listings for books that have no Kindle edition).
This is a pretty good guide
as well however, I wish Prima guides would still publish
hardcover guides for ALL of the LEGO games so that us OLD folks who need trifocals to read, die numerous
times, AND have to reread instructions several
times could simply do it by going back a few pages and going one paragraph at a
time AND have both regular AND free play modes in front of us, side by side..
With four discs to accomodate this
time round, the
hardcover design was chosen
as it offered more real estate for displaying artwork across each section.
A recognized authority, when published
as a
hardcover monograph or treatise, retains its authority over
time.