Sentence examples for book equivalent from inspiring English sources

Now comes along Joyce Carol Oates to turn Marilyn's life into the book equivalent of a tacky television mini-series.

The recipient (of this and of its picture book equivalent, the Kate Greenaway Medal) is chosen by children's librarians in conjunction with hundreds of schools nationwide.

Maledon argued that the must-walk fiat is the rule book equivalent of limiting golfers to 14 clubs and one type of ball in an event.

Amazon had set $9.99 as its standard price for new e-books — the book equivalent of Apple's ninety-nine cents per song in iTunes, and far lower than what a new book would typically sell for in print.

Fans of juvenile literature will recognize this as the plot of "Sarah, Plain and Tall," the novel by Patricia MacLachlan that won the Newbery Medal (the children's book equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) in 1986.

His graphic novel "The Mother's Mouth," about a woman visiting her sick mother, was a nominee in the special recognition category of the 2007 Eisner Awards, the comic book equivalent of the Academy Awards.

Now Telltale Weekly (telltaleweekly.com) wants to be its audio-book equivalent.

Leading 1960s underground cartoonists such as Robert Crumb made their names in San Francisco alongside their acid-dropping friends Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead, while in the 1990s Fantagraphics was Sub Pop's comic-book equivalent and neighbour in Seattle, chronicling the slacker era in Peter Bagge's Hate.

The Beatles and their comic-book equivalent, Jack Kirby, arrived in his 1960s childhood as miracles, making him determined to be the rock star who now stands here shaking but strong, backed by the sort of garage-folk-rock band (led by Lewis, with 1960s folk-rocker Peter Stampfel) he might once have dreamed of.

This e-book equivalent of a box set, titled "The Collected Novels of Jose Saramago," will be available on Nov. 29, with novels including "Blindness," "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" and "Baltasar and Blimunda," along with an introductory essay by Ursula K. Le Guin.

And especially when it comes to the extended DC universe, of which David Ayer's Suicide Squad is the latest instalment to be roundly pummelled, battered and exiled to the comic-book equivalent of Siberia by those self-appointed arbiters of cool.