Sentences with phrase «as smaller bookstores»

On the other hand, the large chains were not as close to their customers as the small bookstores which they were driving out of business.

Even as small bookstores are experiencing an amazing renaissance — hooray for local -LSB-...]

The visitor center contains historical and natural history displays as well as a small bookstore / gift shop.

Not exact matches

It is a logical and efficient way for a small bookstore to expand its footprint, especially as big chains have shuttered locations, leaving a vacuum for enterprising independent stores to fill.

As the assistant manager of a small university bookstore, I am required to dress professionally, and I also have to wear close - toed shoes.

I got on Facebook and began to search out every bookstore in the Northwest as well as every small town newspaper I could find.

My novel The Rescuer's Path came out this January, with glowing cover comments from Ursula Le Guin («exciting, physically vivid, and romantic»), Cheryl Strayed («held me from the first page to the end»), and many other noted authors whose opinions, one would think, would count with the media; yet, except a notice in Small Press Review («lyrical and poetic, the characters vividly drawn, the story captivating») and elsewhere, and mostly 5 - star Amazon reviews, media critics and bookstores will not so much as open the book.

He dropped out of college and moved from job to job, being a Caribbean yacht captain, doing computer repair, roofing, and finally working in a small Appalachian town as a bookstore clerk.

This is especially powerful as the rest of the smaller bookstores have less leverage for bargaining with publishers.

One of the problems I keep seeing with big publishing is you guys stick to current models and don't look at down the road or how something could help smaller bookstores (think a POD in an indie bookstore) or with books that aren't ordered as frequently.

Bookstores have functioned as consignment stores for 80 years, and you're right: the whole thing worked against small presses.

As a small press author for a press I adore (Hadley Rille Books), the promotion road is hard going, as I, and my books, are viewed as «less than» by other authors, bookstores, and the publishing community at largAs a small press author for a press I adore (Hadley Rille Books), the promotion road is hard going, as I, and my books, are viewed as «less than» by other authors, bookstores, and the publishing community at largas I, and my books, are viewed as «less than» by other authors, bookstores, and the publishing community at largas «less than» by other authors, bookstores, and the publishing community at large.

After all, if a consumer is willing to physically stand in an independent bookstore and make the purchase on their smartphone (or on their tablet, using the store's wifi connection as they do), will simply pointing out how it harms small businesses enough?

This allowed Apple to gain traction with its new digital bookstore and allowed smaller retailers to offer the same pricing as Amazon.

Forest Avenue Press has created a popup online bookstore as a way to actively promote selected titles by authors and small presses we adore.

After college she managed a chain of bookstores in the Midwest; learned editing and production with a small LA - based publishing house, and had positions as a marketing manager at major publishing houses.

Yet just as high street booksellers blanched at the rise of the e-book (and consequent shrinking of their bestseller market and creeping dominance by Amazon), so academic bookshops are right to be wary of how digital inevitably benefits the bigger publishers over smaller campus bookstores.

As ebooks are quickly evolving to incorporate more media, ebook cover art displayed on major bookstores are small singular images.

As a customer at The Curious Iguana said, «We need intimate, small places like this that care about the books they pick... This isn't just a bookstore.

That smell - the heady (in a literal sense) aroma of a book, of a small neighborhood bookstore, the paper, the ink, the glue - is nearly as important to me as the story within those pages.

In my latest novel, Branded as Trouble, small town bookstore owner Mila Banchini is the shy, quiet type.

Among the many reasons Stallman gives for boycotting Amazon are that the company sells ebooks and digital music that deprives customers of their rights through restrictive licensing, that the Amazon Kindle - or Swindle, as he calls it - uses proprietary software and contains backdoors through which Amazon can delete books and update software, that the company reportedly abuses its employees by making them work in sweatshops, and that it hurts independent bookstores, small publishers, and authors through its near - monopoly power.

Smaller than the average bookstore, this is done on purpose: Amazon Books carries fewer options but has curated them in such a way as to introduce readers to new — but popular — books that they might never have found in the larger chains.

In the current climate of struggle to stay afloat as an independent brick - and - mortar bookstore, many small time booksellers have found a friend in Google's eBookstore.

It's unfortunate to see both libraries and bookstores treat eBooks as a small change — as if it were simply a case of all hardcovers suddenly getting acryclic leather covers that shine in the dark.

For a time the specialty bookstores in science fiction and mystery kept many smaller publishers alive, but those stores are mostly gone now as well, leaving the large traditional publishers in almost complete control of any sort of distribution.

But for most books published by large (and small) publishing houses, they are sold in independent and chain bookstores as well as online at Amazon, BN.com and numerous other online accounts, including, in some cases, the publishing house's website.

Small presses, which use print - on - demand technology rather than cheap offset printing, can not afford to place your book in bookstores (because they have to pay for the high - priced ones that don't sell as well as the ones that do).

But as the number of brick and mortar bookstores decline (and as many of the remaining ones cut author appearances), actually going out to speak at bookstores is just a small part of what you as an author can do to promote your book.

My book review operation was a success from the very beginning in terms of attracting publishers wanting to submit books for review and being able to pay any overhead expenses using review copies as a source of income by selling them to local bookstores and community libraries in Madison, Wisconsin and other surrounding small communities hereabouts.

Yes, as I have said, some print market will persist but what size and shape that will have in twenty years time is anyones guess, what we DO know is that it will be smaller and because of that we'll have fewer physical bookstores, but how that shakes out we can not be sure.

If your Amazon Associates link gives you, as it does me, a small percentage of a sale that costs the reader nothing, are you in it because you're ready to see the last bookstores close?

As a former bookseller himself, he celebrated the launch of This Side of the River by giving 6 bookstores $ 250 grants for whatever improvements they needed... a helping hand on a little smaller scale than James Patterson, but doing his part!

I have many print books via CreateSpace by different authors (some have self - published and some are from small publishers), and they are ALL numbered this way as well as have headers on pages that don't appear in other print books that you buy at a physical bookstore.

Even small independent bookstores now have online sales, as well as huge stores like Amazon.com and BN.com.

Riggio continued to expand his number of college bookstores and his bookstores modeled on the Sales Annex, as he also acquired small bookstores and bookstore chains, including B. Dalton.

As for the small and self publishers, this will open new possibilities and could potentially bring back the mom & pop bookstores that I so dearly miss — where you could go and feel like you were more than a «customer» making a sale.

The signing will focus on building small, incremental relationships with new and existing readers, as well as building or strengthening a relationship with the venue — in most cases a bookstore.

I have wondered as little communities like mine lose their small independent bookstores and have no big box booksellers if the libraries will pick up the slack and start holding author signings.

But despite this, romance is often belittled as a trashy, «sub-literary» genre, with bookstores often relegating romance to a small corner (if they have a romance section at all).

It's a small e-bookstore, ten times smaller than Kindle Store and it's not growing as fast as other bookstores.

If I had the urge to start a small bookstore, I'd have my print books in it, but it wouldn't work as an «All Pam Uphoff» bookstore.

Yet, those are very real cuts — Even if indie bookstores fantasize that customers will visit just as often — they can't neglect the fact that they get a smaller cut and that ebooks will cost less.

You're not likely to make much per book, but thanks to the economics of the digital bookstore, you are likely to make a sizable amount — so long as you gather a small team of editors and designers, and focus on releasing as many ebooks as possible.

The faster deliveries have allowed bookstores to place smaller initial orders and restock as needed, which has reduced returns of unsold books by about 10 percent.

The current bookstore landscape now includes Barnes & Noble and Books - A-Million, as well as smaller chains and independent bookstores, such as Powell's.

After the dismaying discovery that CreateSpace doesn't distribute everywhere, and that IngramSpark offers a whole ton of things that CreateSpace doesn't (we'll go into this in a different article), I learned that small bookstores and retailers often won't order inventory from CreateSpace and will only order your book if it's on IngramSpark, and oh, by the way — that you can be listed in BOTH places, I realized I needed to have my books on IngramSpark as well as CreateSpace.

I thought indie - bookstores would be the natural place to start pitching my self - pubbed non-fiction historical research title... but as a small business, it seems they are even less likely to take risks on indie authors.

You can make your home bookstore as small or as large as you choose, depending on the amount of time and resources you commit to it.

What seems different now about Denise Bibro's space is how it resembles an old and revered bookstore, where small stacks of reserves and recent deliveries can be gently moved aside by a patron whose presence is assumed and respected as participatory.