Amazon charges $0.15 per megabyte (MB)—the file size of your Kindle eBook—for each book sold priced between $2.99 and $9.99. There is a minimum charge of $0.01 and delivery fees vary by country. There is no delivery fee for books priced below $2.99 or above $9.99.

Yes. You can go through a fairly involved conversion process, as described by Doris Booth, or you can purchase the ebook, often for a reduced price, on Amazon and certain other retailers. The catch, of course, is that you have to have purchased the physical book from Amazon as well to qualify for the reduced price.

The Big Stores

• Amazon Textbooks.
• Apple iBooks-iTunes Textbooks.
• Google Play Textbooks.
• Chegg.
• CourseSmart.

A reader who wishes to purchase an out-of-print book must either find a bookseller that still has a copy, wait for another print run, or find someone who will sell their own copy as a used book.

5 Books That Will (Probably) Never Be Printed Again

• Fast Times at Ridgemont High // Cameron Crowe (1981)
• Rage // Stephen King (1977)
• Promise Me Tomorrow // Nora Roberts (1984)
• Sex // Madonna (1992)
• Encyclopædia Britannica (1768-2012)

Ten books that have never gone out of print

• The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), John Bunyan.
• Robinson Crusoe (1719), Daniel Defoe.
• Emma (1815), Jane Austen.
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Mark Twain.
• Dracula (1897), Bram Stoker.
• Gone with the Wind (1936), Margaret Mitchell.
• Rebecca (1938), Daphne du Maurier.

the Diamond Sutra

The Guinness Book of World Records gives the honor to Marcel Proust’s elephantine Remembrance of Things Past, weighing in at 9,609,000 characters (including spaces). Other commentators cite Henry Darger’s In the Realms of the Unreal, a 15,000 page, handwritten tome that has yet to see print.

How to Find Out if a Book Is Still in Print?

1. Type the title of the book or the ISBN number into a website such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Borders to see if the book is available.
2. Contact the publisher with the name of the book and author.
3. Visit your local bookstore.

Your agent will work to narrowly define what it means for a book to be “in print” in your contract. That usually means that your book has to sell X copies (usually a couple hundred) over X royalty periods (usually about two, which is 12 months), to be considered still in print.

Out of print simply means a book is not currently being published. The copyright holder still retains all rights whether a book it is in print or not. Copying an out-of-print book without permission of the copyright holder is illegal under US law. It doesn’t matter if it is only for private or educational use.

It will be easiest to identify a counterfeit textbook if you can compare it to the tangible or picture version of the authentic textbook.

1. Blurry Text/Logos. Check the text and logos on the front and back covers.
2. Off-Center Text.
3. Copyright Mark.
4. Uneven Glue in Spine.
5. Images and Text Bleeding Through the Page.

What’s the difference between a reprint and a new edition? A reprint means more copies are being printed with no substantial changes. A new edition means that there has been substantial change: content has been altered in a way that might make a customer complain that this was not the product that was expected.

book which has an enhanced value because the demand for the book exceeds the supply, usually because of its importance, scarcity, age, condition, physical and aesthetic properties, association, or subject matter.

You can use any type of clean water — tap or bottled — to prepare liquid-concentrate or powdered formula. If you’re concerned about the purity of your water supply, talk to your baby’s doctor or your water provider. Many public water systems will test drinking water upon request.

To lessen this chance, parents can use low-fluoride bottled water some of the time to mix infant formula; these bottled waters are labeled as de-ionized, purified, demineralized, or distilled, and without any fluoride added after purification treatment.

Mixing up a bottle of baby formula isn’t too hard, but knowing which water source should go into the formula can be a challenge. Bottled water may seem to be the safest bet, but it turns out that filtered tap water may be a safer source. Their website states, “Use water from a safe source to mix your infant formula.

Purified water or distilled water is recommended for infant formula feeding. According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), over 300 contaminants can be found in the U.S. tap water. More than half of the chemicals detected are not subject to health or safety regulations and can legally be present in any amount.