"While a hardcover book is more expensive to print than a paperback, the publisher does traditionally make more money on that edition, allowing them to earn back the author's advance and the costs ...

Physical books make more meaningful gifts. Some of the most meaningful gifts I’ve ever received were books. The beautiful coffee-table-sized hardcover edition of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, which my ...

You must have noticed blank pages in both paperback and hardcover books. But have wondered what is the purpose of these blank pages? On top of that, why don’t ebooks have blank pages like that?

Unit sales of print books rose 3.3% in 2016 over the previous year, ... Most print formats had an outstanding year, with hardcover up 5.4%, trade paperback up 4%, and board books up 7.4%.

Amazon sold 180 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books in the last month. ... He predicts that within a decade, fewer than 25 percent of all books sold will be print versions.

Sales of hardcover books went up by 0.9 percent to gross $989 million. Sales of electronic books, on the other hand, plummeted by 20 percent in the first half of 2016.

Amazon said Kindle books account for 867,881 of those sales, while four other blockbuster authors -- Nora Roberts, Stieg Larsson, Charlaine Harris, and Stephenie Meyer -- have also sold more than ...

A U.K. first-print hardcover copy of the book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" is also on the auction block for $60,000. Image 1 of 2.

Unit sales of print books rose 1.3% in 2018 over 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. According to BookScan, units topped 695 million in the 52-week period ended December 29.