But based on buying intentions, it appears that electronic readers are replacing traditional books.
Compared with traditional books, e-readers make it easy to distribute works from African authors that can be hard to get in print.
"We've long believed that even as more readers transition to eReading they will continue to buy traditional books and a recent Harris Interactive poll bears this out, " continued Edwards.
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Mayersohn declined to discuss specific sales figures, but he did say that the margins on self-published books are very good (do I detect shades of Amazon here?), even better than those of the print-on-demand traditional books.
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In many cases, they are just reading digitized versions of traditional printed books.
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The chapters highlight interesting nuances not often seen in traditional strategy books.
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Although these shorter format e-Books are expected to be priced lower than traditional e-Books, we expect revenues to be compensated through higher unit sales.
Block engraving may be used to print books in a variety of traditional styles, to create modern books with conventional binding, or to reproduce ancient Chinese books.
He looked around and discovered a burgeoning industry of companies that help authors publish their own books in any format they like, from the traditional printed book to e-books and Amazon's Kindle, and now for the iPad.
In the newly-opened Marwa Tower mall, a gleaming structure of glass and steel skyscraper next to the Grand Mosque, you may find Puma trainers, Chanel fragrances, gold jewelry, mobile phones and dozens of other gadgets -- alongside religious books and traditional calligraphic art.
We are giving 50% of the net profits back to our contributors and we are not marketing our books in a traditional way.
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But this obliges publishers to essentially run two businesses at once: a traditional publisher that sells bound books to stores and an electronic business that sells e-books online.
Clearly, consumers enjoy media experiences in the form of their choice, which has expanded far beyond the realm of traditional distribution chains like printed books, newspapers and magazines, audio CDs, DVDs and television.
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The good news for traditional book lovers is that print books are not going away completely.
The first was managing existing intellectual property, which includes reprinting and distributing books under contract through their traditional and newer digital infrastructures through various release windows ad infinitum.
Publishers make very high gross margins on traditional textbooks, and since e-books radically reduce the cost of distribution and printing, one would expect prices to drop substantially for digital offerings.
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And traditional forms of reading, such as with books (even e-books), is something that boys at least do more rarely.
In this new approach, writers are no longer at the mercy of large, traditional publishers, and readers will have more books to read.
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They need to sell their books at gigs, online, and in traditional bookstores where they can.
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Our books sell to people who are bored with traditional literature, who want to be thrilled and changed by language and images and sound.
But despite the huge growth in e-books in the past few years, the traditional publishing houses are not yet predicting the end of printed book.
For example, the iPad offers a beautiful canvas for reading books, but the size and heft discourage the traditional curling-up with a page-turner.
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Bypassing traditional distribution means, including eRetailers such as Amazon, allows OR Books to have products up almost overnight for pre-sale.
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The traditional New York publishing business model publish a ton of books, fail to market most of them, and hope that somebody buys something worked well when publishers had a hammerlock on the distribution and marketing of books.
Traditional methods of marketing typically involve advertising through newspapers, magazines, telephone books, radio, and TV.
Recall that traditional athletic scholarships typically cover tuition, fees, room, board and books.
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Each of those activities is an important step along the way to fame and fortune for an author, and the bad news today is that traditional publishers now only consistently do one of those five activities: acquire books.
But you probably also discover new books through social media, seeing them in bookstores, reading book reviews and even through traditional advertising.
Part of the problem is that traditional media's message that people should pay for popular movies, TV shows and books doesn't resonate with Web-savvy consumers who are used to getting content from the Internet for free.
For books that attract commercial interest, the company has partnered with publishers like Harlequin to release them through traditional channels, but with more generous royalties.
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