Sentences with phrase «waterstones as a bookseller»

Amazon (AMZN) might have started as a bookseller and made its name as an e-commerce giant, but the company is rapidly expanding its business.

The Starbucks located inside the Barnes & Noble bookstore is sharing the same customers as the bookseller in a more cost - efficient manner than if each were operating separate, stand - alone locations.

As a bookseller, Amazon was good but replaceable.

In 2016, Amazon Studios released Manchester By the Sea to theaters, bringing the company that started out as a bookseller in 1996 into the best picture race at this year's Oscars.

(Incidentally, I work as a bookseller, and Super Natural Cooking was my very first staff recommendation.

Martin Schulz never went to college, but completed an apprenticeship as bookseller in 1977, so he would theoretically qualify for the «Mittlerer Dienst».

We were the ones — as booksellers — who worked to please the readers.

After working her way through college as a bookseller and earning a BS in Criminal Justice (with minors in English and Anthropology), Becky was accepted into the Denver Publishing Institute, one of a handful of graduate - level programs offering a crash course in publishing.

After working as a bookseller for some years, he traveled around America and India by train, before becoming a writer.

As booksellers around the world continue to feel the pinch of trying to do business in an online retail climate, the French Parliament has taken action that at least intends to protect bookshops in some small way.

Also, I like to check with readers whose opinions I value, as well as booksellers and librarians.

This was sent to me in my capacity as a bookseller.

While it is presumed that Amazon.ca will have to follow the same pricing structure as booksellers in Quebec, that does seem fairly impossible, given that this law only applies in the province itself.

The problems and the promise: Authority As The Bookseller's c.e.o. and publisher Nigel Roby is saying this evening at our launch event in London, The FutureBook Conference is in its fifth anniversary.

I was curious as an avid reader, then as a bookseller, and now as an author.

And don't talk to me about loss - leaders — if you need to half - price Harry Potter to get customers into your shop, perhaps it's time you took a long hard look at who you are as a bookseller and what you're trying to do.

Despite all this, I — as a bookseller — was never, ever expected to repossess those books.

Previously, she worked as a bookseller for Waldenbooks, and also for Forbidden Planet, the retail division of London's Titan Books.

It is a point of fact that I always sold more books on Barnes & Noble than I did on Amazon, by my own accounting, so for Amazon to claim success as a bookseller is a bagatelle and self - aggrandizing propaganda.

Kevin J. Bartolotta lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a bookseller.

It is hard to discount the Pokemon Go phenomenon, as booksellers all over the world are attempting to capitalize on the trend.

I've approached HHorizons strictly as the bookseller I am (and identifying myself as so), asking for clarification about their «channel distribution to 25K booksellers...»

And reading — though on the decline — is still valued, something that was confirmed by Denis Kotov, CEO of St. Petersburg - based Bookvoed («Alphabet Eater»), one of the country's largest bookstore chains: «People like to read in Russia very much, but as booksellers we are competing with television, the Internet, and alcohol.»

Because the largest retailers trading in the ebook space don't report sales figures — most significantly Amazon — the publishing industry is left, as The Bookseller's Philip Jones puts it, trying to analyze its own digital market «by candlelight.»

After I graduated from college, the real world intruded and I entered the publishing world as a bookseller and bookstore manager.

He shares what and how his eyes were opened in that regard when he met Terry Fallis as a bookseller, who had originally self - published his novel The Best Laid Plans that went on to win multiple awards and be adapted into a CBC Television mini-series.

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

As a bookseller, I can only comment on the availability of books from small and vanity press publishers.

I've seen the same patterns as a bookseller since 1992.

Clearly, such initiatives as The Bookseller's Independent Author Preview can help lead the way in encouraging other parts of the industry to «open up to indies.»

As booksellers they should of had the foresight to become leaders in the ebook industry.

He has worked as a manual laborer, is trained as a librarian, spent twelve years as a bookseller, and was a translator and literary critic before becoming a full - time writer.

And our job, as booksellers is to help readers find the right books for them.

As a bookseller, I watched every day as voracious readers came into the store, stood in front of the small section of shelves where they most enjoyed to read, and were dismayed that there was nothing there for them.

As a bookseller it honestly boggles my mind that comics are so hard to get a hold of.

Alongside her work as a bookseller, she writes novels for adults.

As Amazon's importance as a bookseller has grown, publishers are pushing their designers for brighter, bolder covers that pop for online shoppers.

She works as a bookseller at Brooklyn's BookCourt, and wants to talk to you about baked goods on Twitter @emmastraub.

It is, generally, less likely for those books to drop from (say) 5 copies to 4, than it is for a best - seller to drop from 5200 copies to 5000, in my opinion as a bookseller.

As a bookseller, I'm busy.

Some will say that alleging «censorship» by such media as The Bookseller and F+W's Digital Book World, as Gaughran does, is going too far.

My books are formatted for print, Mobi for Kindle and Epub and I only use Amazon as a bookseller.

She was trained as a bookseller both in independent bookshops and in the international cultural group Fnac where she specialized in Young Adult literature.

As The Bookseller's Philip Jones put together a list of publishing innovations at The FutureBook, 10 Things Publishers Have Been Doing We Should Celebrate, his mentions of HarperCollins» activity included an online romance festival; The Chatsfield immersive storytelling venture from Harlequin Mills & Boon (which HarperCollins has acquired); participation in June's FutureBook Hack project in London, and more.

Barnes & Noble buyout may be in the works, as the bookseller's founder and CEO has said he is going to try and buy the company's retail business.

As a bookseller for 5 years, i spent a good amount of time connecting with people in person, and it meant more to me than all the months I spent trying to connect with readers on Good Reads, communicating with bloggers, or promoting myself on FB.

As a bookseller, I live for novels like Cutting for Stone - big, fat, beautiful novels as beguiling and enchanting as babies, as wise and as generous as old sages.

After working as a bookseller for some years, he traveled around America and... (more)

The expansion of ebooks has certainly been a priority with Google as the company seeks to gain credibility as a bookseller.

(Thanks to Stephen Windwalker for his helpful background briefing on the plight of indies, based on his own experience as a bookseller back in the day.)