How To Use Hardback In A Sentence
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His second book came out in hardback last month.
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Some are important reference books; some are expensive hardbacks; some were presents.
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A novelist blurbed the hardback: ‘She'll take you farther from home than you ever dreamed you'd go.’
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His second book came out in hardback last month.
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Smaller shelves for hardback fiction.
Times, Sunday Times
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All books are in good condition, hardbacks as well as paperbacks.
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Publishers are betting that we consumers will not notice this decline in hardback quality but that we will note the closing price gap between discounted hardbacks and regularly priced paperbacks.
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Our hardbacks are all sewn, on quality papers, with a variety of covers: you can choose book cloth, full leather, or quarter- and half-bound editions of leather and hand marbled paper.
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For Bittman fans, it's a good approach to a cookbook: an enormous hardbacked monster of a book, 1000 recipes from everywhere, and especially useful if you've got ingredients but no specific direction you want to go.
Sunday is Food Day: Vichyssoise
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Companies that care about the packaging often liken themselves to book publishers, who know a small number of people will pay a premium price for a hardback.
Times, Sunday Times
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The little hardback books will be in the post as soon as possible, folks.
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This is because most hardback books are case-bound in leather or cloth and you have to laminate the cloth or cover before binding in order to print reproductions.
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Collated, expurgated and presented in hardback form so many years after his death the journals show a childish, drug-addled man who often verged on a limited kind of brilliance through his songs.
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Hard - cover : Book sellers'term to mean case - bound book as distinguish from soft - cover . Synonymous with Hardback.
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Publishers traditionally cover their costs by selling hardbacks - hence the price.
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His blockbuster titles have been topping both the paperback and hardback nonfiction lists.
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Seeing the entire universes Jack Kirby created for his characters to exist inlike in the "Fourth World" books, Kamandi, The Demon, OMAC, Machine Man, The Eternals..., all by himself in a tiny little windowless studio sitting in a stiff hardbacked chair, I can only imagine what an Aquaman comic--with his attendant built-in fantasy world setting of Atlantis--written and drawn by Kirby might have looked like.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Hardback: Book sellers'term to mean case - bound book as distinguish from paper - back . Synonymous with Hard - cover .
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And given the attempt by the footballer's lawyers to restrict the sales of Rooney's Gold, the loathsome book about his life and times written by the equally feisty BBC hack John Sweeney, Wayne might also reasonably ask why, when the frighteners have been put on WHSmith and Waterstone's, his own employers – Manchester United – are selling it on the club's official website United Direct: £16.99 for the hardback he detests.
Diary
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But I rarely buy hardbacks, so Amazon's $9.99 for ebooks that are still out only in hardback is not a big temptation for me.
MIND MELD: The Pros and Cons of eBooks
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Novels may be the glamour end of the book trade but they are notoriously difficult to sell, especially in hardback, and many worthy efforts fall by the wayside.
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Heavily illustrated in color and duotone, the 256-page hardback book features his monumental and studio sculpture, plaster and clay maquettes, as well as drawings.
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A hardback library book can last anywhere up to 100 loans before it is taken off the shelves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through the stuttering doors of the other hall lurks a gathering of spare souls who saved for hardbacked notebooks and empty time to be filled with fictions.
Reading at the Anatomy Museum
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The book is fast paced and will keep you gripped from the start, you'll wish that you can get some peace to read it, as it is 423pages (hardback) so it does take a while to get through.
Reader reviews of Pop Goes The Weasel by James Patterson.
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I wanted to put an index and a discography in the hardback edition of the book.
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Presentation is austere: the hardback, which is matt black with silvered lettering, has no dust jacket, no tables, and no illustrations.
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The handsome, lavishly illustrated catalogue costs ￡19.95 in hardback and ￡12.95 in paperback.
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You could have dozens of the things for the price of a new hardback or a big joint of beef.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seems extraordinary, but judging from the hardback sales, his fan club is as big as ever.
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Companies that care about the packaging often liken themselves to book publishers, who know a small number of people will pay a premium price for a hardback.
Times, Sunday Times
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Buzzard, Buteo buteo, I read in the AA guide to British Birds, a hardback with a beautiful picture of a tawny owl on the cover, which you can still find in many homes.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Hatchards specialise more in the sort of hardbacks that would look good on the bookshelves of the library in the west wing of one's stately mansion.
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Users of Rice University Press titles are able to view the content online for free or, thanks to Connexions' partnership with on-demand printer QOOP, order printed books in every style from softbound black-and-white on inexpensive paper to leather-bound, full-color hardbacks on high-gloss paper.
Rice's Digital University Press
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His latest novel will be published in hardback later this month.
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He said that the publisher estimated that 20,000 hardbacks would be sold at £14.99 a copy and 30,000 paperbacks at £6.99 per copy.
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But if all else fails, you can now publish it yourself, in any one of a dozen formats from cheapo ebook to relatively expensive hardback.
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In fact, pretty much the only reason I buy a hardback is because either the book isn't going to be published in softcover (which happens with special subject books) or I'm going to get the book signed by the author (VERY rare for me.)
POLL RESULTS: The High Cost of Reading
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Most of the paperback titles cost £3 - £5, with hardbacks costing more.
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Soon all 225 hardbacks and 3,000 softbacks were sold and Saint Piran Press was busy printing more.
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The book was hardback and huge.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have one I haven't read yet (The Immortal, in rickety old hardback), which I'm sort of saving up, the way you save up the last shot of really fine whiskey.
REVIEW: Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny
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You could have dozens of the things for the price of a new hardback or a big joint of beef.
Times, Sunday Times
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His rock-climbing magazines and the black, hardbacked notebooks that he'd used for work.
Calling A Dead Man
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Publisher Pete Crowther has done a print run of 300 hardbacks and 500 paperbacks.
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After all, the ebooks have none of the production costs of a hardback book so they should be cheaper.
Times, Sunday Times
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The idea with paperbacks is that they're cheaper than hardbacks, but the publisher is selling more of them because more people can afford them.
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If the book is a hardback, conventionally in the middle of the left-hand (pastedown) endpaper.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Three years in the making, it will include a film season, an academic symposium and a hardback book.
Times, Sunday Times
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They do not believe Lessig will profit by offering a free download concurrent with hardback sales.
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The book got good reviews, but bad sales in hardback.
Times, Sunday Times
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My first book with a recipe was a hardbacked Sesame Street book that had a recipe for banana bread.
Zucchini bread | smitten kitchen
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The usual gap between hardback and paperback publication of a book is roughly one year.
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The book brawl started fifteen years ago when megabookstore chains deeply discounted bestsellers, as well as other hardbacks and paperbacks.
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On the basis of his track record so far, Porter expects to sell 25,000 hardbacks of Brandenburg, plus 100,000 paperbacks, and to be published in 13 countries.
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I bought this in hardback, as is my preference for book, but unlike most hardbacks, it's roughly the size of a paperback book, very similar to the Marvel Age digests.
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Finally my copy of Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonard Tsypkin which Susan Sontag posthumously tipped me the wink about in her book of essays At the Same Time and I'm delighted that the hardback edition that I tracked down contains her introduction.
54 entries from April 2007
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Some reviewers noted a number of errors in the hardback - mostly minor, such as misreporting the colour of the lino in the Treasury.
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You might not think this is enough raw material to spin out over 345 hardback quarto pages, but why not?
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I'm sure this was hardbacked under a different title.
Stuff
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To mark his seventieth birthday, a series of Laurent de Brunhoff's classic stories have been reprinted this year in special hardback editions.
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Harry Potter has already been on the cover of Time Magazine and achieved the unprecedented feat of occupying the top three places in the New York Times Book Review of bestselling hardbacks.
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The final date for submissions for the special hardback last issue of the mag was Sunday 10 July.
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Or perhaps, the Posse says, these drivers were "hardbacked" by the PPA ticket writer.
Phillies Zone
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Books just flying out of the doors and Marie up into the twenty-somethings on the best seller lists with a first novel in hardback, that is amazing.
A London Day
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They will be many different ISBNs against the same title hardback, paperback, audio CD, large print, ebooks etc.
Archive 2007-08-01
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hardback books
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The cover of the hardback is lovely, but apparently this is being held responsible for the book not having met its expectations (code for marketing budget?) in hardback, so the jacket will be receiving a lot of design attention for the paperback.
June 2007
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The cover, a four-colour dust jacket with sleeve notes, opens like a hardback travel book.
Times, Sunday Times
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The book, available in paperback and limited edition hardback, is published by Xanadu on September 16.
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I began collecting them as second-hand paperbacks and then updated them: first as new paperbacks, then as hardbacks and finally, first editions.
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Presentation is austere: the hardback, which is matt black with silvered lettering, has no dust jacket, no tables, and no illustrations.
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It's only out in hardback at the moment, which means it is a little expensive. But it's worth the read.
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It is like the same author's massive hardback Thomas Cranmer, which can be read only at a table or by those with strong and unwearying wrists.
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Soon all 225 hardbacks and 3,000 softbacks were sold and Saint Piran Press was busy printing more.
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Who could have known that this little volume would hit such a global raw nerve (the hardback version has sold more than 3m copies)?
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I wish I could find more of your older work in hardback, as my paperbound copies are becoming rather worn from being re-read every year or so.
More on eBookery
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The book is available in softback at E25 and hardback at E40.
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Paperbacks are cheaper than hardbacks; that is surely their main advantage.
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Just a quick post to say that the German version of Vellum is now available in hardback from the independent press, Shayol.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Or a nasty citizen trash-talked him, so he hardbacked a ticket as passive-aggressive payback.
Phillies Zone
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These are large format, high quality editions produced to the standards you expect only from hardbacks.
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Quercus has several titles due out: If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr, a new Bernie Gunther novel (£17.99), Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass (£12.99), and a reissue of David Pearce's 1974 and 1977 (£12.99 each), in "gorgeous" hardback editions.
Indridason et al.: books for September in the UK
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The usual gap between hardback and paperback publication of a book is roughly one year.
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Pimlico, noted for its paperback editions of previously published hardbacks, is making a name for itself in its ‘Pimlico Original’ series.
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These four 50-page hardbacks, published very early in the Tennant era, originally retailed for £5.99 each.
Linkspam for 2-7-2009
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I don't want a nice hardback book (that could just end up as a valuable first edition one day, who knows) complete with electronic gadgetry and when I checked on the handful of Morpurgo paperbacks I had chosen and found the same, I put them all back on the shelf and walked round to WHS for undefaced copies.
A book I almost bought...
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The book brawl started fifteen years ago when megabookstore chains deeply discounted bestsellers, as well as other hardbacks and paperbacks.
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One day I will get a full set of Arthur Ransome hardbacks with these covers.
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Still, the hardback was never reissued, and no paperback has appeared.
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Boxtree venturesomely trucked 300 copies of the £16 hardback Collector's Edition to Brum.
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All human life is contained within the covers of the hardback, coffee table book which runs to 227 pages and contains a wonderful collection of musings and anecdotes.
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A one-volume abridged edition, the basis of this publication, was published in hardback in 1992.
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3 is very cheap for a hardback book.
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The cover is identical to the cover of the casebound hardback edition, including the claim of a 23% rate of return.
Scrivener's Error
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For sometime now I've been delighting in hardback books with untrimmed fore-edges - making the book look and feel old; wonderful and priceless to the touch.
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Paperback editions are best, as the corners of hardbacks come rather sharp if dropped unexpectedly onto soft flesh.
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She was holding half a dozen paperbacks and four hardbacks.
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Not coincidentally, those are also the dates for the hardback publication of Forest Mage.
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So, yeah, get in there sharpish and ye can have either one of the 200 signed, numbered leatherbound (niiiiice!) limited editions or the fully cloth bound hardback trade edition. posted by Hal Duncan | 7: 04 PM
Speculative Horizons
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Rather annoyingly, I'd just bought the hardback when the paperback edition came out.
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Penguin remaindered the hardback when the paperback had scarcely had time to reach the shops.
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There was also a ‘shop’ area in the entrance hall, which sold a multitude of softback booklets and a few hardback books.
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Arnie pointed at a fat brindle cat sitting on top of a stack of hardbacks.
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If this kind of thing is your cup of tea, you'll be pleased to know (via the same link) that Aurum Press is to publish a book celebrating 30 years of The Bookseller's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, asmall-format hardback gift book, How to Avoid Huge Ships and Other Implausibly Titled Books, out in September.
Legs, pygmy love queen and cheese
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He closes the book, then tries to raise the hardback cover without touching it.
Christianity Today
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Imitation cloth: Strong and embossed paper commonly used for binding hardback books instead of cotton cloth.
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It's middle age that's solitary and hardbacked.
Times, Sunday Times
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His second book came out in hardback last month.
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His second book came out in hardback last month.
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His latest novel will be published in hardback later this month.
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Heavily illustrated in color and duotone, the 256-page hardback book features Proctor's monumental and studio sculpture, plaster and clay maquettes, as well as drawings.
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His latest novel will be published in hardback later this month.