Sentences with phrase «even other book retailers»

Even other book retailers like Barnes & Noble can't compete with this and have begun positioning their business away from books.

Not exact matches

This behaviour, however, causes unexpected complications, as other retailers or even countries may have a price matching regulation meaning that publishers can not sell their books cheaper.

First, if you're one of the authors who pulled their books out of other retailers» platforms to enroll in KDP Select, you might have forgotten you even have a Smashwords account.

Other features include location, mapping, and contact information for each branch, a catalog search, an ISBN barcode scanning function that enables users to scan books in retail environments to see if titles are available at their library, an events schedule that enables registration, an «ask a librarian» live chat service, a contact information form, and even a text - to - donate option.

It's a cogent point and to anyone who has purchased dozens or maybe even hundreds of books on Amazon or any of the other online retailers, the thought that a click of radio button in the administration room of a distant server farm can instantly take away your entire library is a bit unsettling.

So if Amazon wanted to monkey around with retail split, they'd likely already be doing it with other products for which they DO have an even larger market share than they do for books.

Perhaps even more importantly, it allows publishers to maintain the perceived value of a physical book over the often dramatically discounted prices Amazon and other retailers offer on digital titles.

Amazon recently announced that during September it sold more Kindle books than print books for the top ten, hundred and even thousand bestselling books on its US website, and other retailers will no doubt see the same as Christmas approaches.

In an even bolder move, Rowling published the ebooks through her own site only a few weeks ago and gave several other online retail booksellers the take - it - or - leave - it deal of a lifetime: other retailers» customers can go to their favorite online book sites to purchase the books, which diverts them to Pottermore for the sale, then the original retailers will still send the ebooks to the consumers» e-reader devices without requiring the downloading to a computer and transferring via cable that many customers have to rely on when purchasing books from sites other than the one that markets their e-readers.

To make this even better, when you choose the Kobo and Everything Else distribution option, your eBook will be made available for purchase on eBook retailer sites in the Ingram network includinhttp: / / www.lulu.com/blog/wp-admin/post-new.phpg Kalahari, Booktopia, Baker & Taylor, Gardners, Oyster Books, Sainsbury's and others — not to mention a long list specialty eBook retailers from around the world.

Under the agency model — one of the factors that led the investigators to believe that anti-trust violations had taken place between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, including HarperCollins — publishers get to set the price of ebooks, rather than retailers; under the previous wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to boost sales of other products.

This is a number assigned to a published book or other work that helps distributors, retailers and even readers locate a particular title in the massive Books in Print book cataloging database.

Even then, you don't know if other factors are influencing sales as well — factors that might include strong support among independent retailers known for hand - selling books they like or a viral marketing campaign started not by the publisher or author but by a fan.

Although ebooks are easier to buy, I don't think it's as easy to choose your next book by a new author — even though Amazon and all the other retailers work hard to make it so.

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Even though most of the mass market books are now $ 7.99, they are discounted at Walmart, Target and other retailers too.

Barnes & Noble isn't exactly up there with Coke or Apple, but the B&N brand conjures up other images Microsoft could benefit from (e.g., trusted in - person retailer, growing digital content retailer and even a place where you can get answers to your questions about nooks and books).

Its exposure to retail, mortgage financing and various other sectors (adding up to almost half the portfolio) combined with the fact that even its home builders are not the cheapest ones out there, mean that if you want to take advantage of the discount to book values that are out there, the best strategy is to buy the individual securities yourself!

For some, it will essentially be a simple matter of putting index cards into electronic form in a basic database or address book; for others it will include electronic advertising, retail record keeping, online appointment scheduling and even employee scheduling.