"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 ...

In hardcover books, the first page is usually blank and is called a flysheet or endpaper. One half, the endpaper, is glued to the cover, and the other, the flysheet, is meant for protecting the ...

U.S. publishing sales dropped 4% in April as the audiobook boom that had driven industry growth finally cooled off. Digital ...

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.

Traditionally, the paperback would hit the shelves about a year after the hardcover. Today, book publishers are printing fewer of them, closing a second-chance window for writers counting on a new ...

Unit sales of print books fell 4.8% through the first nine months of 2022, ... Hardcover unit sales fell 8.9%, much higher than the 1.8% drop reported by the cheaper trade paperback format.

Amazon got a lot of attention yesterday for announcing that over the last three months, it's sold 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books. In the last month, the ratio is 180 to 100.

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 ...

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.