Sentences with phrase «good bookstores take»

Good bookstores take the time to promote and advertise upcoming book events.

Not exact matches

With the exception of Portland's Powell's (a bookstore that literally takes up an entire city block) and other well - known stores, booksellers, unfortunately, are not able to compete unless they drastically cut the price of their merchandise.

And never fear if you've become a die - hard digital fan since the day your first Kindle arrived... many indie bookstores have affiliate agreements to sell ebooks and e-readers, as well as ways you can take advantage of other in - store offers.

-- 2 % statistics figures is no serious argument or trend indication — all consumer agreements are drafted by selling companies and, thus, hugely favor the latter, it's take it or leave it — quoted Apple provision is standard indirect damages exclusion, any damages cases for consumers using digital text documents are unlikely anyway — printed book is always better but it takes space — some educational piece on drawbacks of ebooks and bookstores would serve better purpose

Well, it takes place in a kooky «vertical» bookstore that's open 24 hours a day.

While the online bookstore has taken over the brick - and - mortar store in popularity, there are still places (such as the library) where your book might benefit from being near other well - known authors.

Although indie bookstores took a hit during the first decade of the 21st century, 2017 gave rise to increased bookstore sales as well as an increase in the number of indie bookstores opening up and holding their own.

Independent bookstores are doing well (on average, reportedly), because they take a different approach.

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 book.

The brands that survive either sell hardware with built in bookstores or offer a unique experience, such as digital note - taking (Sony Digital Paper, Remarkable, Onyx Note, and Good e-Reader 13.3) or an Android - driven experience that's not locked into a walled garden and gives the user the flexibility to install their own apps.

I am tickled that they are selling in the USA but I would have rather seen them take it to sell at independent book stores then advertise to go to your indie bookstore for one and help the little stores compete or sell at Best Buy but Walmart is better than nothing

So when Kobo's Michael Tamblyn sat down with Good e-Reader to catch up on the latest news from the growing device - selfpub - platform - bookstore, it was difficult to take it all in.

One initiative which took place last week in California saw not only a surge in bookstore traffic, but in revenue as well.

Spark immediately takes over sales to (& royalties from) bookstores & online retailers, as well as libraries that order through Ingram.

This is a huge paradigm shift for publishers, who have typically taken a business - to - business approach to sales and marketing, pitching their list to key agents within the industry supply chain; primarily sales reps who stood the best chance of getting their books sold into bookstores.

Experience the entire NOOK family of products at www.nook.com or at the NOOK Digital Shops and displays in one of Barnes & Noble's more than 700 bookstores and other leading retailers including Best Buy, Target and Walmart, which will soon take pre-orders, and many others.

Rather than take a jaded view of the situation, it is far better to assume that the bookstores would have been damaged by looters just for the thrill of it and the police were standing blockade because books — in any form — are a vital part of society.

Like many well - known publishers did before them, publishers in Korea have taken to opening their own bookstores to sell their titles, especially in storefront cafes reminiscent of the coffee house bookstores in the US.

(That means if you're a publisher like Baen who does well in the South and comic bookstores and non traditional venues you take a hit anyway.)

Heck, there are 100X more «tricks» to find good ebooks that take less effort than driving to a bookstore and asking the clerk «what do you recommend.»

Yet most self publishers will tell you that your BEST sales will NOT come from selling to bookstores (since they take 80 % or more of the profit!)

Below, John Green, accepting the Indie Prize given by the American Booksellers Association to writers who best represent commitment to independent book stores, calls «bullshit» to the concept that authors like him, who speak directly to their readers via social media, don't «need the value - sucking middlemen of bookstores and publishers and in the future... no one will stand between author and reader except possibly an e-commerce site that takes just a tiny little percentage of each transaction.»

There used to be Tower (yes, there was a BOOKstore), but the fall of Tower Records took down Tower Books as well.

Well, guess what, if these same bookstores would take time to review what their customers want and try to address those issues, if they'd hire employees who knew the stock — and this implies paying these employees a decent wage with benefits instead of hiring a store full of nothing but part - timers so they don't have to pay benefits — most readers would be more than happy to pay a bit more to buy locally.

For the rare author who has thoroughly researched effective ways to take advantage of bookstore and library distribution possibilities, Ingram Spark may offer better worldwide distribution, and for the author who has a significant following outside of the United States, Ingram Spark may have an advantage.

Spending money on having a small selection of digital books to be «part of the crowd» could potentially take your capital & time away from being the best bookstore for printed books you could be.

CR: As well as 3 traditional gallery spaces in London, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the touring exhibition will also take place in a bookstore in Riga (Latvia), which is quite an non-traditional space for Digital Art.

This was in the days before Amazon.com so I would have needed to have gone to some bookstores, find a good book or two for first - time home buyers and taken the time to read and study it.