"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 ...

E-books are cheaper to produce than print volumes, ... Let’s not forget the author, who is generally paid a 15 percent royalty on the hardcover price, which on a $26 book works out to $3.90.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Apple Music has announced that it’s publishing a new hardcover book to commemorate the album list. Here’s the kicker: it will set you back $450. New book has limited print run of 1,500 copies ...