Sentences with phrase «box bookstores do»

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With a 50 % discount from us, bookstores can mark what doesn't sell at half price and do better than returning the books (bookstores pay the shipping for returns, and they pay employees to box up the books).

Libraries, bookstores, gift shops, Big Box chains, Apple... do you really want to wager your book's future and ignore every other retail option?

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.

What do independent bookstores offer that big - box stores don't?

I started up a little, part - time, used bookstore on the internet and for a couple of years, business was okay, but what I found as I tried to stock up on inventory was that it was not fun going to used book sales and stepping over other book sellers blocking the aisles with their hand - held scanners and boxes of «don't touch these, their mine» used books.

They are moving into small storefronts — sort of like what they did before they were driven out of business by the big box bookstores like BN and Borders.

With the news about some big box bookstores struggling to pay their bills or offer any new product, what, if any, initiatives does Marvel have to help smaller Direct Market stores increase their book product ordering without feeling their own financial pressures?

You don't find them talking about how the influx of the big box bookstores destroyed the locally owned bookstores or how the poor business management and over-expansion of the big box stores then caused their own downfall.

Amazon doesn't have to try to put the «big box bookstores» out of business, it's a natual progression.

As for increasing profits, until indie authors have a larger section of the print market or we see the end of the current big box purchasing contracts, there is very little an author can do to increase a bookstore's profits.

Indie bookstores are always on the lookout for new revenue sources and something that will differentiate them from the big - box stores, most of which still don't carry indie titles.

Don't miss the cultural stops, too, like the La Jolla branch of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Warwick's (the nation's oldest family - owned bookstore), or the local art galleries such as Legends Gallery, where you can see out - of - the box paintings by the late Theodore Geisel, the long - time La Jolla resident better known as Dr. Seuss.

«The good news is that even though Apple, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, and other online giants killed record stores and video rental shops and are in the process of doing the same to electronics and bookstore big boxes, e-commerce will never replace the brick - and - mortar shopping experience,» says Sean Glickman, CCIM, managing director of Glickman Retail Group in Maitland, Fla..