For many readers, literature that is good enough, set at the right price, will suffice. But the higher the price, the more the reader demands in return.
Why Did the Word “Paperback” Precede “Hardback” by 100 Years?
Why did the word ‘paperback’ appear one hundred years earlier than ‘hardback,’ when hardbacks had been around much longer?
Is the Print Book Destined to Become a Souvenir?
What role does the physical copy have in the digital world? For many it does indeed serve as a reminder, a souvenir, of the initial reading experience.
US E-book Sales top $30m in January, Matching Kids Hardcovers
By Edward Nawotka Perhaps fueled by people filling up the new e-readers they received over the holidays, e-book sales in January jumped a drastic 261.2% over the same period last year in the United States, according to the most recent statistics released by the AAP. As a category e-book sales equaled that of children’s/YA hardcover book sales, which fell 41.6%, …
German Buch News: dtv Adds Hardcover Children’s Titles; Stones Sent to Commemorate Fall of the Wall
By Siobhan O’Leary According to Buchreport, dtv, the only German publisher focused exclusively on publishing paperbacks, will be expanding its list in summer 2010 to include an eight-title hardcover line in its dtv junior program. In the past year, dtv published ten hardcovers in its non-fiction program—the first time it had deviated from its paperback-only strategy. The new program will …