Sentences with phrase «value as a physical book»

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The new fees, as it has been explained to us, would charge for the overall promotional value of having titles stocked and displayed in the physical bookstores, regardless of whether those books actually sell through, trying to place a monetary value on the benefits of displaying books in the BN «showrooms.»

Juergen Boos, the director of the five - day annual fair, has also suggested that a general attachment in Europe to the physical presence of the printed book and its value as a cultural object is holding the ebook back.

Media analyst Alan D. Mutter recently argued, «They will buy a book, vinyl record or other physical artifact that they view as a collectible, but see no value in paying for access to ephemeral headlines that are freely available everywhere.»

I believe it is a matter of value and as long as each store offers different things we value (like book signings at physical stores or free shipping) both will continue to stay in business.

If anything, many of the books previously sold in physical form and now sold in digital form had little or no value as objects — and probably little or no value after a year on the shelves.

So, while an ebook might have less value to you than a physical book, there are definitely specific classes of books (i.e. those that I read as disposable entertainment) for which an ebook has greater value to me.

Luckily for them both, the $ 8 - 10 Paperback is actually competitively priced vis - a-vis e-books with the value add of being a tangible, physical good, and with a little effort I suspect that the $ 12 - 20 TPB could easily supplant the Hardcover as the «lead» version of paper books.

Data is collected and used in libraries for purposes like the evaluation of usage statistics of purchased content to assess whether value is being gotten for money, and as a way to evaluate whether a physical space is still required, but I would argue that the numbers of times someone accesses a subscription, asks a question at a reference desk, or takes out a book are not reasons to fund a library that are compelling to decision makers.

As much as I enjoy holding a genuine book, I have realized that the value of a book is not in the physical object but rather the information that it containAs much as I enjoy holding a genuine book, I have realized that the value of a book is not in the physical object but rather the information that it containas I enjoy holding a genuine book, I have realized that the value of a book is not in the physical object but rather the information that it contains.