Sentences with phrase «just as the bookseller»

... Just as The Bookseller's Philip Jones was aptly saying that the publishing industry is «looking at its

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I will admit that when it was just a bookseller I was a skeptic of Amazon's viability as a business and also of Jeff's strategic leadership, but he has proven to be what I look for in a CEO — a bold visionary that implements big strategies, sometimes despite conventional wisdom.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

Right now, the Booku.com site is just operating as a standalone ebook retailer but once it's bedded in, Wehrner hopes he'll be able to offer the technology to other booksellers with their own branding.

The Booksellers Association has already called it a crisis situation, as there are just 987 bookshops across the entire country.

Ideally, you're shopping in indie bookstores throughout the year, not just one commemorative day, but it's fun to think of May 2nd — Independent Bookstore Day — as the Black Friday of books and booksellers, the day when the traffic to their stores can let them rest a little easier financially, at least for the rest of the month.

As soon as I finished the last page I drove to my local indie bookseller and bought a copy in hardback, because I felt I owed the author a debt for the reading experience I'd just enjoyeAs soon as I finished the last page I drove to my local indie bookseller and bought a copy in hardback, because I felt I owed the author a debt for the reading experience I'd just enjoyeas I finished the last page I drove to my local indie bookseller and bought a copy in hardback, because I felt I owed the author a debt for the reading experience I'd just enjoyed.

Big box retailers such as Walmart and booksellers like Barnes and Noble just want them sold to clear our inventory.

We understood that the shift to agency would be very costly to Penguin and its shareholders in the short - term, but we reasoned that the prevention of a monopoly in the supply of e-books had to be in the best interests, not just of Penguin, but of consumers, authors and booksellers as well.

Indie booksellers will add your book on consignment sometimes, and LS books might look a little prettier, but I've done just as well getting Createspace books into bookstores and don't notice a huge difference in quality.

She also worked as a children's librarian and bookseller, and remembers still the satisfaction of putting just the right book into a child's (or teenager's) hands.

As for Amazon, the bookseller has become one of the largest online retailers for a massive variety of products and isn't likely to be going away any time soon; books are just one piece of its pie.

Lesley - Anne Alexander, c.e.o. of RNIB, told the Bookseller that: «We want publishers to work with us so that blind and partially sighted people can read the same books at the same time as everyone else including all of the new exciting titles that are just hitting the shelves.

In the case of the newest YA tour, it's not just the authors who will be joining forces, but the booksellers, book bloggers, and fans as well.

According to an article in The Bookseller, in just the Birmingham area, the city council has proposed a # 1.65 million cut to the library system, of which # 50,000 is intended to be taken from its fund to purchase books, and an additional # 150,000 will be carved out of the fund to host public events, such as author appearances and book signings.

The book is published by Random imprint Doubleday, which means that Amazon controls price and discounting in the Kindle Store just as brick - and - mortar booksellers control price and discounting for the hardcover edition.

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.

And as a bookseller, self - publishing is just not really perceived as a good option.

Amazon started as an online bookseller, but is now the world's largest online retailer and they offer far more than just books to their customers.

Meryl Hall of the Booksellers Association said, «Showrooming is just one of a variety of pressures bookshops are facing, with other issues such as rising rents, high business rates, lack of town center parking and the unfair tax arrangements of multinationals also playing a role.»

In order to sell as many units as possible, the bookseller has just put it on sale.

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, which just gave Ms. Pearl its lifetime achievement award, described the reaction among its members as «consternation.»

Patchett told The Bookseller that authors should become more involved in the industry and take greater responsibility as part of a wider ecosystem, just as book - buyers should think twice about purchasing through the cheapest channel, like Amazon, if it means they might lose their local bookshop.

As a recent NPR story put it, Amazon's tactics are seen as «predatory», because Amazon is not just an extremely huge bookseller, but they are also a publisheAs a recent NPR story put it, Amazon's tactics are seen as «predatory», because Amazon is not just an extremely huge bookseller, but they are also a publisheas «predatory», because Amazon is not just an extremely huge bookseller, but they are also a publisher.

While he makes the very sound point that more consumers are engaged in digital reading than ever before and an e-reader device under the Waterstones label just makes good business sense, he seems to not hold in very high regard some of the concepts that he outlined, such as overpaying to have a bookseller make you coffee.

More speculation may point to overzealous lawyering as Amazon moves from just - distributor and bookseller to publisher.

The bookseller has just announced that William Lynch has resigned as CEO, effective immediately, as the company commences «reviewing its current strategic plan.»

As you know, I am NOT a bookseller, rather, just a consumer.

I do social networks, guest blogs, email newsletters, and just try to reach out to readers, booksellers, and librarians as much as possible.

Just in time for those reports that Big Five publisher Simon & Shuster (S&S) is, like Hachette, in negotiations with Amazon, as covered here by Sarah Shaffi at The Bookseller.

Just as the Independent Alliance was established to secure better terms from chain booksellers as well as from online players and supermarkets, so the indie booksellers» version would exist to secure the same from larger publishers, along with a range of other benefits.

In an English language market that could easily be technologically serviced from the UK or US (as Amazon does with Kindle) so long as the retailer made a small commitment on the ground marketing and brand building and converting print readers to digital, a small bookseller with great physical footprint and footfall but not much by way of a digital track record might just, strangely, be a leader in this shift from print to digital in Ireland.

I enjoy browsing in bookshops as much as any other Kindle owner I'm sure, and would hate to see them disappear, but ebooks are here to stay and publishers and booksellers have to allow for them and not just see them as public enemy number 1.

As I referenced in our introduction of the event two weeks ago, there are three fundamental components to the programming that I've put together — happily with a very deep bench of talent and skill among our speakers and a indispensable support from The Bookseller team standing just behind The FutureBook's veil of pink.

That's how it maintains the low, low prices customers love, while driving booksellers out of business and framing publishers as greedy villains — even though books are the * only * product we sell, whereas books are just the gateway drug Amazon uses to lure customers through the door.

And it's not just publishers, as booksellers hit hard over the past decade by Amazon's price - cutting ways have gone so far as to organize a boycott of authors who go with Amazon's imprints.

These are just the main sites — other online booksellers as well as eBay have the book for sale, but for the Amazon.com price plus markup.

As for how long Barnes & Noble will take to decide just what it will or won't do with its Nook unit, the bookseller isn't saying.

«We understood that the shift to agency would be very costly to Penguin and its shareholders in the short term, but we reasoned that the prevention of a monopoly in the supply of e-books had to be in the best interests, not just of Penguin, but of consumers, authors and booksellers as well,» Makinson said in a statement.

The UK's Super Thursday in October saw the number of trade hardbacks released onto the market in a single pre-Christmas day jump from just over 300 in 2014 to 400 in 2015, as my colleague Philip Jones reported at The Bookseller.

The bookseller swears to me that the ISBN is just exactly the same as from your link AND that inside the book it says «2014» as the pub date.

Just as superstores edged out some independents, those booksellers — especially the remaining small independents — that didn't establish an online presence early are feeling Amazon.com's sting, says Seema Williams, a consumer e-commerce analyst with Forrester Research in Boston.

Just as superstores edged out independents, those booksellers — especially the remaining small independents — that didn't establish an online presence early are feeling Amazon.com's sting, says Seema Williams, a consumer e-commerce analyst with Forrester Research in Boston.