"To buy the paperback" means to purchase a book that is in a soft, flexible cover, instead of a hardcover version.
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Those
who buy a paperback to read on the train, and open a book - reading app in a queue in a post office.
Further showing that those who have picked up their e-readers aren't leaving printed books altogether, seven in 10 (70 %) e-reader owners have
bought a paperback in the past year.
It has to be a pretty spectacular book with something extra special on the inside (e.g. illustrations in a YA) to induce me to
buy paperback anymore.
This is where publishers make most of their profits, and these are the people who will
usually buy paperback.
It might cost, but the cost still represents a saving
over buying the paperback myself — most new releases cost between $ 25 and $ 30.
It was first published in 1996, and I remember
buying a paperback copy of it at the Tattered Cover Book Store here in Denver.
You can buy these books for all e-readers including Kindle, and also
buy paperback editions directly from me and support my work.
Right now, it's just a glorified local event that allows booklovers to
buy some paperbacks at a discount,» said the KPA's Han Ki - Ho.
I will probably
buy the paperback as there are bits I would like to go back to and the student in me wants to re-read and underline, highlight and annotate.
And the way pocket paperbacks are vanishing and being replaced with the larger size, I may stop
buying paperback fiction all together.
a follower.They can buy books which has nothing to do with the word of GOD five or six dollars.I can
buy a paperback even for less.GOD bless all followers JESUS CHRIST our LORD.
I agree with Arphaxad but would like to add that I can many
times buy a paperback book cheaper than the eBook.
Flipkart ebooks, newshunt and rockstand are the other ebooks online stores, the problem here is that they sell proprietary version of ebooks that can only be read if you have the respective apps installed in your phones or tablets, as you need the apps to open the ebooks you bought, its more on the line of scribd, I think I may be wrong, but that really decreases the lure of ebooks and
buying paperbacks becomes attractive as it gives more freedom and readability.
I like to think that some of the people who didn't buy a book on the spot will take the bookmark home, check out my website, and
possibly buy a paperback or e-book later.
I would say a great majority of my readers (those who do
eventually buy a paperback version) buy on Kindle first, and then order a paperback to have it in their library.
If you have read the book and want to
buy paperback copies in bulk to give away or to study with friends, you can do that right here:
Because I'm
not buying the paperback, I'm not buying a Kindle, and I sure as HELL am not buying a PDF from freaking Lulu (does anybody respectable actually USE Lulu?).
Potential customers can get a taste of your book online via our BookStreamer and
then buy a paperback version of the book if they like what they see.
: — RRB - What I hope happens, is
someone buys the paperback & Kindle versions, then gives the Dead Tree version away, after reading it.
I love reading and I would take a chance on more authors if it weren't so expensive to
buy a paperback fiction in Australia.
Needless to say, because 80 % of those people who
buy paperback books in the U.S. buy from Amazon, I lost a lot of sales.