Skip — For the record, on average, the break-even point on hardcovers is 4,000-5,000, not 2,000 - 3,000, and I know personally more than a few authors who are no longer selling because they couldn't even sell 2,000 copies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The three pulp novels were reprinted in hardcovers in 1964 but they have not been reprinted since and are hard-sought by collectors. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And stuck right in the middle, dodging hardcovers, is poor Deborah Whitman, author of a memoir detailing her tumultuous relationship with Peter Parker. ❋ Unknown (2009)
According to Pat Holt, publishers fear that reeducating the audience away from hardcovers is impossible. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I generally borrow my hardcovers from the library. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the best-case scenario, print publishers will realize their strategy of releasing ebooks for the same price as hardcovers is short-sighted and harmful, and they will lower their prices. ❋ Joe Konrath (2009)
In the same vein as Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, I read Cherry Ames - you get many points for mentioning Cherry, The Bobbsey Twins, The Boxcar Children - the original falling-apart red hardcovers from the library, before the modern series, Trixie Belden - though I couldn't find many then; thank goodness they decided to reprint them for a new generation of readers! ❋ Unknown (2005)
I’ll still read the next book in the series, but I’m pretty glad I borrow my hardcovers from the library instead of buying them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even then, though, I’d shell out money for certain hardcovers when they came out. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And then there's the hefty third volume of the Ted McKeever Library from Image Comics, which debuts at No. 5 in hardcovers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So The Light Sang...gives me the first opportunity to release a hardcover book -- I now learn that they also call hardcovers "cloth". ❋ Unknown (2007)
GREENFIELD: One of the books that David McCullough is his biography of John Adams, which sold upwards of one million hardcovers, which is pretty impressive for a 700 page book about one of our founding fathers, but it reminds us that one of the things that the framers, the founding fathers, talked about in the Declaration of Independence was a decent respect for the opinions of mankind. ❋ Unknown (2002)
So a move to $10 'hardcovers' would entail a massive shakeup of the entire publishing industry, and quality would go down. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The weird thing about e-book "hardcovers" is there is no extra value (that I'm aware of). ❋ Unknown (2009)
The book's editor, Julia Cheiffetz , said it has since sold 6,500 digital copies, compared with 5,700 hardcovers during the first 12 days it has been on sale. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"The market is developing and growing for children's e-books, but it doesn't compare to the market for adult best-sellers," says Jacobs, who also notes the distinctive design of the "Wimpy Kid" books, compact and heavily illustrated hardcovers. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Amazon customers now buy more Kindle titles than hardcovers and paperbacks. ❋ Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg (2011)
The small first printing is why those first hardcovers are so valuable today. ❋ Unknown (2009)
After selling the big lot 2 years ago, I put the science fiction hardcovers in order. thos ebooks have tended to stay put, but all new acquisitions are now wherever there is space. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Each sold "quantities of hardcovers once unimaginable." ❋ Unknown (2009)
