The hardcover book--that symbol of the permanence of thought, the handing down of wisdom from one age to the next--may be a new addition to our list of endangered species

精装的图书--那思想永驻的象征，那从一个时代向下一时代传留的智慧--可以做为我们即将绝灭的物种名单上的一项新的补充。

The novel sold200,000copies in hardcover and2million in paperback.

那本小说的精装本卖了二十万册，平装本卖了两百万册。

Nearly 1. 7 million copies of the hardcover are in print and a 525, 000 first printing is planned for the paperback.

《亲历历史》的精装本出版了将近170万册，而平装本计划首次印刷52.5万册。

The DX has a 9. 7-inch screen, about the size of a hardcover .

DX的屏幕达到了9.7寸，相当于一本精装本的尺寸。

Publishers have made no secret of their dislike of Kindle book pricing, which they fear will cannibalize higher-priced hardcover sales.

出版商对Kindle图书定价的不满已经不是个秘密了，低价的电子图书不断蚕食着高价精装书的销售额。

Buyers of e-books get a good deal: Traditional hardcover books often cost around $25.

电子书用户收获多多：传统精装图书的售价一般要25美元左右。

People think, ’That really meant something to me, I’m going to purchase the hardcover version. ’

读者认为它确实对自己有着非同一般的意义，因此会再次购买精装版的漫画书。

The DX has a 9. 7-inch screen, about the size of a hardcover . That’s two and half times more reading area.

而KindleDX配有一块9.7寸大小的屏幕，相当于一本精装书，增加了2.5倍的阅读空间。

Now, that number is pretty impressive but in this month alone, Amazon has sold 180 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover ones.

而这个月，这一比例更加惊人，达到了每100本纸质书籍对应180本Kindle电子书。

Publishing: Hardcover , Paperback, E-Book

发行：精装本、平装本、电子书

Buyers of e-books get a good deal: Traditional hardcover books often cost around twenty-five dollars.

购买电子书的人买到了便宜货：传统的精装书往往要价25美元左右。

"What was the point of putting out a paperback when the hardcover sales were so extensive? " she said.

她说，“那么在精装本销售还很火爆的情况下，推出平装本的时间点在哪儿呢？”

hardcover edition souvenir edition fresh edition pirated edition front cover back cover cover girl cover picture

精装版纪念版新版盗版封面封底封面女郎封面图画

Hardcover or paperback?

精装还是平装的？

The Inner World of Farm Animals: Their Amazing Intellectual, Emotional, and Social Capacities [Hardcover ]

牧场动物的内心世界：他们令人赞叹的智慧，情感和社会能力

What it’s missing: There is no option to create hardcover books.

缺少什么：无法选择创建精装书。

Yes, we have both paperback and hardcover .

是的。平装版的和精装版的，这两种我们都有。

Yes. We have both the paperback and the hardcover .

是的。我们有平装本和精装本。

Publishers are feeling the heat, with hardcover sales weak and the rise of e-books promising to upend their business models.

书商可以感觉到有热浪袭来，感到实体书销售市场的疲软和电子书市场的兴起以及它们决心改变商业模式的决心。

In the book, Chatwin laments the disappearance of a hardcover notebook, bound in oilcloth, called a moleskine.

书中，Chatwin惋惜于一款硬皮油布装订、名叫moleskin的笔记本的消逝。

The book version, released the same year, sold 400, 000 copies in hardcover .

同年，《自由选择》一书的精装版本售出40万份。

Meanwhile, a $24. 95 hardcover book nets Amazon a cool $4. 25 in profit.

同时，一本售价$24.95的精装实体书，可以获得$4.25的利润。

Prince Isolder was created for The Courtship of Princess Leia, a 1994 hardcover novel by Dave Wolverton published by Bantam Spectra.

伊索尔德王子是专为《向莱娅公主求婚》而创作的人物。这本1994年的精装本小说由戴夫·沃尔弗顿撰写，班坦光谱出版社出版。

At the same time, e-books flew off virtual shelves and topped sales of hardcover books for the first time.

与此同时，虚拟书架上的电子书籍更是被哗哗哗地售出，以至于其销量首次超过了精装本的销量。

It used to be like clockwork in the book business: first the hardcover edition was released, then, about one year later, the paperback.

在图书出版业，有些惯例就像上了发条一样一丝不差：精装书首先发行，一年后是平装书上市。

Printing a 9-by-9-inch, 334-page hardcover book in China costs about 44 to 45 cents now, with another 3cents for shipping, says Goodwin.

在中国印刷一本9英寸×9英寸、334页的硬皮书大概要花44到45美分，还要再加上3美分的运费。

This is across Amazon. com’s entire U. S. book business and includes sales of hardcover books where there is no Kindle edition.

这一统计包括了亚马逊网站上所有的美国的书籍，也包括那些不提供Kindle版本的纸质书籍。