Sentences with phrase «big bookstores took»

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Amazon has been making some big strides in extending its footprint outside of the U.S. with its Kindle e-readers and Kindle bookstore, but today it took a step to improve how it caters to Spanish spea

It also fails to take into account the fact that indie bookstores, where some of those less than best seller books could be found, were run out of the market by the influx of the big box bookstores in the 1980s and 1990s.

«Big bookstores will not always take you if you are a self - publisher, and if they do, they will usually take a big portion of your book sale — just to have it inside of their stores [they will take] 40 percent to 50 percent,» she says, adding that she also had to figure out how to break into the schools system so that children would have better access to her boBig bookstores will not always take you if you are a self - publisher, and if they do, they will usually take a big portion of your book sale — just to have it inside of their stores [they will take] 40 percent to 50 percent,» she says, adding that she also had to figure out how to break into the schools system so that children would have better access to her bobig portion of your book sale — just to have it inside of their stores [they will take] 40 percent to 50 percent,» she says, adding that she also had to figure out how to break into the schools system so that children would have better access to her book.

Amazon has been making some big strides extending its footprint outside of the U.S. with its Kindle e-readers and Kindle bookstore now available in a range of markets including Spain, but today it took a step to improve how it caters to Spanish speakers closer to home, with the launch of a new section of its U.S. Kindle store dedicated to books in Spanish.

More for us, says Apple, which is taking advantage of the fight between the world's biggest bookstore and one of the world's biggest publishers.

Their analysis suggests that Big 5 publishers pricing may have had the unintended effect of pushing even more people to Amazon to take advantage of deeply discounted paper books at the expense of physical bookstores.

If bookstore sales are your target, shoot for a Big - 5 blockbuster or quality literary press; or, settle for option 2 and take books around to offer on consignment at your friendly local bookstores.

I'm a commercially published author, and I love my publisher for all the reasons Ms. Hocking is hoping she'll love hers... they take care of covers, editors, and getting my book into the big bookstores.

In the United States, Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookstore chain, took a much bigger gamble by investing heavily in the creation of its own e - reader / tablet.

Some of our bigger - name authors continue to see print growth, but with so many bookstores facing financial problems, it's harder to get them to take a chance on new authors than it used to be.

That's assuming you can get into bookstores at all: most indie shops will only take self - published books on consignment, and big chain stores won't stock them, period.