Sentences with phrase «us bookshop owners»

I understand that my second option cuts out the bookshop owners and employees, those who build bookshops, provide janitorial services and all other manner of things.

The first grows out of a conversation I had with a bookshop owner several weeks ago.

Moran continues to perform at various international comedy festivals, and is known for his role as David in Shaun of the Dead, as well as a quirky bookshop owner in the popular British sitcom Black Books, which he also co-wrote.

Richard Curtis» followup to «Four Weddings and a Funeral» saw travel bookshop owner Hugh Grant woo Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts in the hip London neighborhood of «Notting Hill.»

Very much as in the case of a bookshop owner who speaks with a Southern accent so slimy that I swear he's seconds away from saying «You got a real purdy mouth city boy».

Max, finding parallels between his own cause and the striking miners, and the three, together with brash lesbian Steph (Faye Marsay), pretty boy Jeff (Freddie Fox) and bookshop owner Gethin (Andrew Scott) and his longtime partner Jonathan (Dominic West), set up LGSM — Lesbians & Gays Support The Miners — to raise money for the starving workers in solidarity.

I've met a handful of bookshop owners who see their shop as a way to SPEND their retirement, not EARN their retirement.

Not surprisingly, Amazon is held as the prime culprit, with Ibis Bookshop owner Linda Jones putting the blame squarely on the online retail giant for driving her out of business.

Once an independent author's book is out, s / he faces an uneven playing field: Self - published books are refused access by bookshop owners and shunned by librarians because they have not been vetted by «legitimate,» known mainstream publishing channels.

Mystery writers and bookshop owners star in these stories featuring amateur — but determined — sleuths.

Atticus O'Sullivan, a 2,100 - year - old Druid, is masquerading as a 21 - year - old bookshop owner in Tempe, Arizona.

This year has given readers several standouts, from creepy authors to cozy bookshop owners:

It's the story of a young scientist who falls in love with a bookshop owner, a man with a magical voice.

The Smiths, bookshop owners since 2004 who now own two locations, started a petition in order to ask David Cameron to enact change to correct what they feel is a situation that allows a much bigger entity to benefit over the smaller businesses unfairly.

In Stella Cameron's Now You See Him, a desperate prisoner's escape unleashes a chain of danger that threatens New Orleans bookshop owner Ellie Byron and challenges Joe Gable, the attorney determined to protect her whether she wants him to or not.

And while some US bookshop owners might line right up for a special nationwide week of attention, do remember that the UK's Independent Bookseller Week had a peculiar preface this year, when the American author and Nashville bookstore owner Ann Patchett was asked to make some comments.

Pilkington wrote, «The Smiths, bookshop owners since 2004 who now own two locations, started a petition in order to ask David Cameron to enact change to correct what they feel is a situation that allows a much bigger entity to benefit over the smaller businesses unfairly.»

What I did read of it, however, seemed to involve a lot of the bookshop owner waxing snobby about how «kids these days» only read a lot of that trash like, say, Tarzan...

Packer quotes Russ Grandinetti, the vice-president of Kindle content who asserts that, because of GoodReads, gatekeepers are no longer necessary, ««Suddenly, we're not locked into hearing the opinions of a small number of reviewers in newspapers»» and adds an unattributed aside, which is presumably Packer's own, «Professional reviewers are fading out anyway, along with librarians and bookshop owners.»

The reason this can occur as much as it does is that a lot of authors are completely unfamiliar with how books typically get into a bookstore, and of the pressures on a bookshop owner and staff.

After all, a bookshop owner in southwest England in September told The Bookseller, «The ebook threat is evaporating before us.

Owner Jon Page — who also happens to be the president of the Australian Booksellers Association — encourages bookshop owners to enter e-business instead of watching helplessly as Amazon becomes a monopoly.

Stroll the streets of the cosmopolitan Notting Hill where Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts filmed the classic Richard Curtis film, Notting Hill — which tells the tale of a simple bookshop owner whose worlds changes when he meets the famous and beautiful film star, Anna Scott.

Earlier this month, LA nonprofit 356 Mission, founded by the artist Laura Owens, gallerist Gavin Brown and bookshop owner Wendy Yao announced its closure — the arts space had been the target of increasingly aggressive anti-gentrification protests, with Owens alleging that she had even received death threats.

Bookshop owners Bob Contant and Terry McCoy's bid for a $ 5,000 rent reduction was turned down.

Not exact matches

He is the owner of a second hand bookshop in Wigtown and his diary entries cover the usual list of eccentric, annoying, delightful and bloody awful browsers.

Alan Beatts, owner of San Francisco specialty bookshop Borderlands Books, announced on October 31 that he had secured enough funding to buy the building at 1373 Haight Street as a permanent home for the bookstore.

Unless the consumer takes the time to notice who will be fulfilling the order and then bothers to click for further options in order to find the actual content owner, one of the many «bookshop» sellers who buys a book, undercuts the price, and then makes up for it in outrageous shipping fees can get that sale.

Well, as an owner of two independent bookshops I feel angry that these authors, unthinkingly or by design, have chosen to support Amazon, W H Smith or Waterstones without giving a fig for independent bookshops.

Speaking at the Southern California Writers Conference in 2009, Redfield explained his strategy for self - publishing for success: «We would go into a small bookshop, a more esoteric bookshop, and we'd go find the manager or owner of whoever was there, hand them the book and say «It's something people seem to like.

Or «bibliomysteries,» a «small but elevated category of literature» that Otto Penzler (owner of the Mysterious Bookshop and the publisher of Mysterious Press) recently discussed over on the Open Road Media blog.

Other reasons cited for the steady decline in bookshops are high rent (which has made it difficult to maintain a high street presence of late for the owners), parking fees — another factor that too is acting as a deterrent for buyers to actually travel to the bookshops — and supermarkets offering steep discounts on books and periodicals, luring customers away from the bookshops.

Tim Walker, owner of Walkers bookshops in the UK, said: «One would have to ask the question «Why would Amazon want to take that step?

One of the most striking new features of the phone which may cause alarm to bookshops is the Firefly function, which allows phone owners to use the in built camera to recognise texts, images and sounds in the vicinity such as a book, film or CD, and link to the Amazon store for customers to buy it directly.

Smith, the owner of these two bookshops, isn't attacking Amazon this time.

And that fictional bookshop's owner and his snobby views was, i have no doubt, written to pander to the prejudices of some big - wig publisher in NYC... (Meanwhile, the people publishing Burroughs were making a ton of money.)

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.

«This is an expected event with the whole business of digitisation of book publishing and selling providing as many new opportunities as threats for booksellers,» said Mr Wright owner / operator of the independent Wrights Bookshop in Cambridge.

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This relocation from Renaissance Italy to Constantinople allows Ubisoft Montreal to explore a different culture, and also introduce several great new characters; Yusuf Tazim, the leader of the local Assassin Order; Prince Suleiman, the heir to the sultanate of the mighty Ottoman Empire; and Sofia Sartor, the owner of a local bookshop and a love interest for Ezio.

[4][5] Previous to founding St. Mark's Bookshop, owners Bob Contant and Terry McCoy both worked at 8th Street Books and also at East Side Books.

The struggling St. Mark's Bookshop was dealt more bad news Tuesday when its owners were told they will not receive a rent reduction.

With Andrew [McKinley, the owner of Adobe Bookshop], it took a year of me being around and gaining his trust before I could get to this point, where he would allow this to happen.

The current owner Sarah Anderson, 67, remembers the film's scriptwriter Richard Curtis coming to see her and making notes about the bookshop she founded in 1979.

The owner of the Travel Bookshop made famous in the film Notting Hill is selling her flat above the iconic world - famous shop