hardback

For dead tree books, even the page numbers can change between the printing of the 1st hardback cover to the 2nd paperback edition.

At least he practices what he preaches - and I'm sure he'll convince a good number to buy the hardback.

I didn't realize what a prize it was to buy a hardback edition in the mid-90s.

I picked up a copy of a 1943, second edition, hardback copy of Bertrand Russell's An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth.

JK Rowling doesn't give up her right to control sales/distribution of Harry Potter just because someone bought a hardback edition and owns a scanner or photocopier.

I bought a (paper, hardback) copy of Learn Python the Hard Way as a result of seeing a post about the book on this forum.

I'd pay for the hardback and more, just for an eBook.

It, plus a Wacom tablet next to it, takes up less room than the hardback sketchbooks I used to haul around as a matter of course.

And it's not like the majority of books people own are that great as physical objects anyway- grab a random hardback from the fifties and compare it to any hardback you're likely to grab at Costco or B&N- the quality isn't even close.

I did catch someone's eye once who left the store before putting all the neat piles of hardback books he had stashed under a table in his briefcase.

Everything else I'd need or want for the 3+ weeks I'd actually be in Texas, including several hardback books, I shipped via UPS or FedEx ahead to the hotel.

I'm working on a Fantasy series, which if I'm lucky on a NYT best seller list might pull me in above $25,000 due to its target market being well established and adult readers (IE people who'll buy hardback).

Personally I prefer "Black n' Red"'s hardback ring bound note books.

Sometimes, surprising ones: Lee Kuan Yew's arguably most famous book, "From Third World to First" is only available in paperback or hardback (some of his later writings are available for Kindle).

Nevertheless, many books have "ads" in the sense of "read more books by this author" on the inside dust jacket of a hardback, or placed in the last few pages of a paperback.

I replaced my 30 year old, falling apart, copy of Apostol's "Calculus", which goes for around $200 per volume for the US edition, for around $25 per volume (including shipping) by getting the international edition, which is identical except it is paperback instead of hardback.