Plus, you have to sit through a rather lengthy church service in German on hardback chairs.
Bring Up The Bodies is out now in the UK in hardback, published by Fourth Estate.
For some, the best deal would be the bundled ebook and special edition hardback.
When it first came out in hardback, it was seen by the literary world as a snack between meals...
His hardback copy of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone was one of only 500 published by Bloomsbury in 1997.
Mr Tudor, the Greater Romania leader, is fond of presenting visiting journalists with a chunky hardback volume of his own poems - in eight languages.
His latest book is top of the American hardback fiction list.
Ms Arundhati is the only non-American on the American hardback list.
So Gipps has taken things into his own hands and, after negotiating with rights holder Random House, will be producing a hardback omnibus edition for fans and new readers alike.
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In America and in Britain, on both the hardback and paperback lists, non-fiction books with a life-affirming or self-improving message are holding their own against those with a downbeat one.
Adult hardback books, meanwhile, are off 1.5% since 1997, a sign of the increasing amount of people's leisure time eaten up by the Web, DVDs and the proliferation of television channels.
It sold 125, 000 copies in its first week on the market, becoming the fastest-selling hardback in the UK for three years and the second biggest seller since records began in 1998.
"Mini-notebooks, " which include the hardback-book sized UMPC standard engineered by Intel and Microsoft (and manufactured by Samsung, OQO and Asus), sold fewer than 350, 000 units worldwide in 2007, according to IDC data.
Publishers charge more for early release hardback books.
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For those who prefer reading over gaping, Classics of Golf (classicsofgolf.com) has republished in hardback 69 of the game's literary treasures, including Arnold Haultain's "The Mystery of Golf" (1908) and Bobby Jones's "Golf Is My Game" (1960).
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"Mini-notebooks, " which include the hardback-book sized UMPC standard engineered by Intel and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) (and manufactured by Samsung, OQO and Asus), sold fewer than 350, 000 units worldwide in 2007, according to IDC data.
Their comments do not appear to have put readers off buying the book, which has already become this year's best-selling hardback fiction title, and the fastest selling since 2009's Dan Brown hardback The Lost Symbol, which topped 550, 000 in its first week.
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