"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 ...

Well, blank pages in print books can be intentional, for example, for allowing authors to sign or for readers to make notes. Intentional empty pages In hardcover books, the first page is usually ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.com sent out word today that the sale of electronic books (books in digital form that can be read on devices like the Kindle or iPad) have outsold hardcover books for the past three months.