but the financial benefits of this model mean it likely isn't going away any time soon "While a hardcover book is more expensive to print than a paperback, the publisher does traditionally make ...

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 ...

After years of declining print sales, hardcover and paperback editions have been rising recently, while e-book sales have fallen. Publishers’ revenues from hardcover sales rose 3.5 percent in ...

Sales of hardcover books went up by 0.9 percent to ... causing widespread panic about the impending death of print books with the advent of electronic consumption. When major book retailer Borders ...

That $450 price tag might be substantial, but the very small print run makes this a collector’s item rather than your standard coffee table book fare.

He predicts that within a decade, fewer than 25 percent of all books sold will be print versions. The shift at Amazon is “astonishing when you consider that we’ve been selling hardcover books ...