"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 ...

The first books were bound with strong, rigid covers. Small print runs made them expensive luxuries. The paperback was pioneered in the 19th century and became popular in continental Europe.

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 ...

“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 ...

And, because the printing press has printed on both sides of the paper, that means a total of 48 pages per section. The booklets exit the machine at a rate of 600 sections a minute.

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.

They don’t cost anything to print and you can’t hold them in your hands. So readers may well feel aggrieved that they are paying far more for ebooks than for many hardback versions of their ...

Friesens Corporation, Canada's largest printer of hardcover books, is investing in two new industrial-scale HP Indigo 50000 Digital Presses to extend its leadership in book printing with a more ...