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As I get older, I like trades better. They're cheaper than hardcovers and easier to read than mass market.
Hard times for hard backs?
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I wouldn't worry much about libraries passing up on a book because of a lack of hard cover binding. There are jobbers out there who can take paperbacks and re-case them in hard-cover bindings for libraries. We often use them at our library on academic press titles where the cloth binding is $50+ more than the paperback.
A lot of the hard-covers being sold these days are perfect bindings anyway, so they're not much different from a paperback in terms of long-term durability.
A lot of the hard-covers being sold these days are perfect bindings anyway, so they're not much different from a paperback in terms of long-term durability.
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As an author, I would think you wouldn't want libraries to have your books anyway. That's a lot of free reading (aka loss of sales for YOU the author).
Well, there are a number of factors here.
First off, library sales are a HUGE factor in the sales of a book, period.
Plus, every person who reads and likes your book from a library contributes to the word of mouth on it, the importance of which can't be understated.
Plus plus, some countries have public lending payments which actually issue "royalties" (for lack of a better term) to writers based on their presence in the library system.
I'm strictly a hardcover reader. Actually, I dislike reading paperbacks and could count on one hand the number of times I have bought one.
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Hardbacks cost $55 in Australia. I almost never buy them directly from the shops unless I have a discount coupon or I really, really, want it. Most of the times I get my hardbacks second-hand from Amazon.com.
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