"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 ...

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?

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.

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%.

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.

De Graff, for his part, was well acquainted with the economics of books. He knew that printing costs were high because volumes were low—an average hardcover print run of 10,000 might cost 40 ...