Womanthology is currently in production and will be a 300-page, full-color hardcover book published by IDW in December.
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At first impression it may feel a bit wrong to publish a book called Digital Disruption in a form as old-school as a hardcover book.
Almost twelve years later in August 2010, Amazon.co.uk introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books to customers in the UK. By May 2011, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, at a rate of more than 2 to 1.
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The South Beach Diet, which also promotes low-carb eating, is the No. 1-selling hardcover advice book and has been a bestseller for 40 weeks.
Quora has printed up only a limited number of hardcover copies of its book and is distributing them privately, mostly to top authors, rather than making the physical book available via regular sales channels.
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First, publishers make more money on hardcover sales than e-book sales, thanks to the inconvenient and widely unknown fact that digital books don't cost much less to produce than physical ones.
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You know, the type for whom a new work is as much as event as it is a book, where multiple permutations in the form of hardcover, audio rights, the inevitable movie or TV show (and movie book editions), serialization and so on must be handled in parallel.
HarperCollins is one of several major publishing houses that are holding back e-book versions of some new hardcover best sellers.
According to Nielsen Bookscan, only 23% of total dead-tree book sales this year come from hardcover books.
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Yet adult e-book sales are already outpacing adult hardcover sales.
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The HarperCollins account of the 2008 presidential election, "Game Change, " by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, was released in hardcover Jan. 11 but the e-book edition doesn't go on sale until Feb. 23.
The book has since sold millions of copies in hardcover and paperback, says Lane.
Who, for instance, buys a digital copy of a book for their Kindle only to go out and buy a hardcover version?
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Amazon is estimated to have 19% of the book market, which implies the company sold 15.6 million hardcover books so far this year.
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For more details, you can download a free copy of my book, Serious Money, from my website (or purchase a hardcover copy here).
It is enough for me to suspend my consulting practice and focus full time on writing the book and will be sufficient to get it designed, edited and published in hardcover and ebook formats.
Book publishers charge extra for readers who are either rich or impatient by releasing the hardcover first, the paperback later.
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The book was a smash (as classics go), selling 30, 000 copies in hardcover and 40, 000 in paperback, even though that edition cost twice that of the mass-market Penguin paperback.
Her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, hit No. 5 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list today.
The book, published by Tor Books, is at No. 1 on The Wall Street Journal's hardcover-fiction best-seller list to be published Saturday.
As for e-book sales, Amazon did say earlier this summer that it sells 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books (Of course, e-books are much cheaper than hardcover).
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