Sentences with phrase «about using bookstores»

The survey of 2,045 UK book buyers found that while young people felt (or at least admitted to feeling) guiltier than older shoppers about using bookstores as showrooms, they were actually more likely to do so.

Not exact matches

By Edward Nawotka In our lead article today, Liz Bury writes about the launch of Mills & Boon India, prompted in part by the widespread use of English, globalized communications and the growth of India's middle - class, which likes to shop in the new chain bookstores and supermarket - style outlets in India's metro centers and their newly - built shopping malls.

The best thing about the Kobo is I am not limited to one bookstore and I can borrow from the library BUT I did decide to buy the Kobo because of the BT feature — that I can't use.

You can not say the same thing about any digital bookstore, it is full of crappy e-book covers that look like they were made in MS paint or downloaded from Google and use Comic Sans Font on the title.

Also, about 200 independent bookstores in the American Booksellers Association will be able to use the Google eBook platform to sell books, sharing profits with Google without the need to build an online platform, she said.

This week is all about how to outfox Amazon with its push of third party sellers of books and learn what Aer.io is and how to create your own bookstore using its platform on author website PLUS offer any other book within the Ingram catalog and earn money as well.

If cyberspace fails to be the time - wasting stagger - down - the - aisles - and - sit - on - the - bookstore - floor - reading approach of the bookshop, I say bravo for asking us to get a grip, get off the floor, think for ourselves, do a little research, use the damned samples, and order and buy books like discerning readers do, not like sheep who backed into the Philosophy session and fell over what Sartre meant about responsibility.

Although I doubt I'll ever be in need of a publicist, today's post reminded me of an aspect of self - publishing and small presses that used to drive me nuts when I had my bookstore: the lack of research, about my community in general and my store in particular, before approaching me about carrying a book.

This morning, Shelf Awareness ran a piece about a handful of independent bookstores taking issue with a large publishing house's use of Groupon: in typical Groupon fashion, the house offered consumers 50 percent off their purchases.

Re the quiz, I got all of them right, not because I've read them all but because I used to teach, and before that I worked in a bookstore, so either I knew enough about a title to identify it, or I could rule out the other three choices!

Integrating new options into the way people discover, use, and contribute to the record of scholarship can be exhausting, and someone who hears about a new novel may have trouble getting it because it's not available through their library, their favorite bookstore can't carry it, it's in the wrong ebook format, or it's only available to people living in a different geographic region, which seems insane since their Facebook friends who are raving about it have no trouble expressing themselves from a different continent.

69 % of ALL US book purchases were online in 2016, so worry less about getting print into bookstores and use Print - on - demand.

Using the shop function takes you to the Barnes and Noble shop where you have just about the largest bookstore in the World.

The latter is all about Kobo using your habits to recommend content in its bookstore.

Yesterday I discovered a new little used paperback bookstore / exchange, and asked about their policies.

• Increase the deductibles on your home and auto insurance policies • Use your local library instead of the bookstore and video store • Make your Coffee / Latte habit a luxury and make your own at home • Drop your home phone line and use your cell phone • Bring your lunch to work more often • Call your Cable TV provider and inquire about specials and promotions (or check out a local competitUse your local library instead of the bookstore and video store • Make your Coffee / Latte habit a luxury and make your own at home • Drop your home phone line and use your cell phone • Bring your lunch to work more often • Call your Cable TV provider and inquire about specials and promotions (or check out a local competituse your cell phone • Bring your lunch to work more often • Call your Cable TV provider and inquire about specials and promotions (or check out a local competitor)

Refurbishment and expansion is about more than just having more space for a curator and artist to play with; rather, artspaces need to encourage people to come in, have a coffee, browse a few books in the bookstore, use a computer, or take a class.

«On Wednesday evening, Abstract Expressionist painter Charles Seliger was standing next to me at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, talking about how much he loved old books and the used bookstores that had once lined Fourth Avenue on the Lower East Side.

So Eli did the manly thing and went and bought about a hundred bucks worth of tools, observed that the toilet not only didn't flush down, but also needed a complete gut replacement, went back to the hardware store, bought a complete set of innards, stopped by the bookstore to get a book on useful expletives for when nothing works and took the damn thing apart getting the blue stuff all over himself and the floor, that book came in useful, and we learned that contrary to rumor brass screws used in toilets do corrode so you have to go back to the hardware store and get WD - 40 and when that doesn't work you go back yet again and get a nut cracker (nononono, not that kind).

You should think of using these instructions as you would think about using a legal reference book you found in a bookstore or at the library.

You might even buy used books in bulk from a used bookstore for this end, since it matters more how they look than what they're about.