On the bookstore front, sales of independent booksellers were up almost 8 % as compared to 2011, based on reports from about 500 bookstores.
The best change
on the bookstore front, in my opinion, is the slow return of the locally owned bookstores.
On the bookstore front, both Borders and Barnes & Noble were in the news.
Not exact matches
Requiring less than 24 hours of your time (and over 250 hours of ours), we create and publish a beautiful book that rivals the quality of any book found
on the
front table of major
bookstores.
Standing
on my tiptoes, I shifted my view through the bookshelves to the semi-circle of editors sitting at the
front of the
bookstore.
However, if fewer people are browsing
bookstore shelves, publishers can't count
on the serendipity of the
bookstore visitor bumping into a
front - of - store display and taking a chance
on a new author.
On the front end of these stores, you'd have an awesome bookstore that would actually sell the books that Amazon Publishing publishes (we both know that no one else seems to want them)-- and on the back end, you'd have one of your «fulfillment centers» — more on that lovely euphemism in a moment — where you could get me and other Prime customers our merchandise pronto, like toda
On the
front end of these stores, you'd have an awesome
bookstore that would actually sell the books that Amazon Publishing publishes (we both know that no one else seems to want them)-- and
on the back end, you'd have one of your «fulfillment centers» — more on that lovely euphemism in a moment — where you could get me and other Prime customers our merchandise pronto, like toda
on the back end, you'd have one of your «fulfillment centers» — more
on that lovely euphemism in a moment — where you could get me and other Prime customers our merchandise pronto, like toda
on that lovely euphemism in a moment — where you could get me and other Prime customers our merchandise pronto, like today.
A retailer can feature a supplier's items in its advertising and promotional circulars, «stack it high» in the
front of the store, keep small quantities
on hand in the back aisle, or not carry the item at all, and
bookstores and other retailers do these every day.
The backlist is essentially the author's previously published books that once enjoyed appearing
on the «
front shelves» at
bookstores.
Similar to the
front - table advantage in physical
bookstores, a spot
on the Hot New Releases list makes your latest title soar in the rankings and increases the possibility that it'll catch... Continue Reading
And that's work which the average consumer who buys whatever catches his eye
on the co-op tables at the
front of the
bookstore is not necessarily willing to do.
Unlike physical
bookstores, where display location is a premium commodity that publishers actually negotiate and pay for, Amazon is willing to put any content in
front of buyers» eyes, based
on their purchasing histories.
I challenge you to go into a
bookstore and find a book which has a less than «glowing» one - liner printed either
on its
front or back cover.
Likewise if one's book isn't in the
front of the
bookstore; no one sees it and within six weeks of sitting hidden
on the back shelves (what is called wallpaper for the big authors), most authors books are no longer in the store and won't be reordered.
Similar to the
front - table advantage in physical
bookstores, a spot
on the Hot New Releases list makes your latest title soar in the rankings and increases the possibility that it'll catch the eye of a book browser.
Back when brick - and - mortar
bookstores were the norm, backlist titles may not have been given shelf space in favor of newer
front list books (see discussion
on front list below).
Requiring as little as 24 hours of your time (but investing over 250 hours of ours), we create and publish a beautiful book that rivals the quality of any book found
on the
front table of major
bookstores.
It's hard for me to imagine my novel showing up in the window of a major
bookstore, but it can show up
on the
front page of Amazon.
Riggio, who bought the
bookstore in 1971 and turned it into the national retailer it now is, telegraphed Parneros» appointment last month, saying
on a conference call he was the
front runner to become CEO.
How do I get a book
on the iPad's iBooks
bookstore and app — 3ones AppStore lessons — 6 ways to better promote your application — Ars Technica How did you get
on the
front page of the AppStore?
This is again due to the collapse of the wholesale market in the 1990's which was almost all mass market paperback, the need then to raise prices
on mmps as they moved more heavily into the
bookstores, and the costs involved with mmp re the returns system (mmp are «returned» for full refund by ripping off their
front covers, returning those to the publishers and the rest of the books are pulped because that's cheaper than shipping those units back, which has been a real mess.)
For one thing, the self - publisher is not likely to have a book
on the
front - and - center table of a
bookstore.
Even now, 2m books later, I find it hard to believe — and disappointing to have to accept — that the chance of my books being displayed
on the
front table in a major
bookstore is slim.
Requiring less than 24 hours of your time (and over 250 hours of ours), we create and publish a beautiful book that rivals the quality of any book found
on the
front table of major
bookstores.
The process of selecting the books that will be
on display in
front of such a large and sophisticated financial audience starts every year with the staff at an Omaha
bookstore called The Bookworm.
On the average, a
bookstore browser will spend eight seconds looking at the
front cover and 15 seconds scanning the back cover.