Sentences with phrase «as a bookseller in»

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.

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.

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

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.

I figured that I'd never be able to live off of a writer's income (certainly not on the $ 5 or $ 50 per story I had been making on each story sale in those early days), so I took a job as a bookseller in 1992 in Ottawa.

What has been your work as a bookseller in the past?

Not exact matches

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.

Fourteen months ago, when Canadian Business first took a look at Kobo, the company was partnering with booksellers and device - makers in North America and abroad; its platform would power their e-book stores and it would become, as one observer put it, the «Intel inside» for the e-reading sector.

And he's the only author to have won both the ABBY (American Booksellers Book of the Year) Award and the Southern California Book Publicist Award in the same year — honoring him as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book marketer.

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).

Although I had come prepared to read only one of these interlocking stories, a well - stocked bookseller supplied the other Deptford volumes, as well as some very welcome information: there were seven Davies novels already in print, and another volume was due out shortly.

The resulting court case (Hudnut v. the American Booksellers Association) went as far as the U.S. Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of the bBooksellers Association) went as far as the U.S. Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of the booksellersbooksellers.

In Jean Renoir's satire of the bourgeoisie, Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well - to - do bookseller, whose family decides to take in the irrepressible buIn Jean Renoir's satire of the bourgeoisie, Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well - to - do bookseller, whose family decides to take in the irrepressible buin screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well - to - do bookseller, whose family decides to take in the irrepressible buin the irrepressible bum.

Only instead of portraying his plight as fate's dark joke, which would probably be a natural fit for a film that begins with the man's attempted suicide in the waters of the Seine (weighted down, no doubt, by his extremely heavy Priapic genitals), Renoir juxtaposes Boudu's infinite zest against the studied mannerisms of the genial bookseller who rescues him from the waters, Edouard Lestingois.

The study by online bookseller Book People surveyed 1,100 parents with children under the age of 12, asking them how highly they place educational value when choosing gifts for their children, as well as which items they believe aid child development in a number of areas.

E-book available through online booksellers As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused.

The authors» ad says, in part: «As writers — most of us not published by Hachette — we feel strongly that no bookseller should block the sale of books or otherwise prevent or discourage customers from ordering or receiving the books they want.

Launched in September 2014, The Pigeonhole has been nominated for the Digital Innovation Awards at the London Book Fair, Future Book's Digital Campaign of the Year for its work promoting Ken Follett's A Column of Fire, and its founding editor Anna Jean Hughes was named as a Rising Star of the publishing industry by The Bookseller magazine.

Books published with IngramSpark show significant inventory levels in Ingram's ordering system, so booksellers always know the title is available and it's printed as orders are placed.

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.

For example, in The Bookseller's writeup, Curtis Brown launches digital programme with Kindle Direct Publishing, note again that the text describes this as «a digital self - publishing program.»

It should come as no surprise that Tim Godfray, Chief Executive of the UK Booksellers Association, argued in opposition.

Booksellers get the writing in front of readers, acting as the public face of the publishing industry.

It's a question that's probably crossed the minds of all of us invested in the book business... as memoir writers (indeed writers in any genre), readers, booksellers, publishers.

While no surprise to booksellers, this will surprise many in the wider community because booksellers» tardiness getting into the ebookselling game has often been seen as a Luddite position: defending paper, bricks and mortar against the digital onslaught.

It is now moving away from this proprietary approach in favour of a more open reader platform and partnerships with established booksellers such as Waterstones in the UK.

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.

In his time as CEO, Lynch presided over the bookseller's efforts to update its bricks - and - mortar operations and push into digital, most notably with the launch of the Nook line of products.

As an indie author with a finger on the pulse of the self - publishing world and bookseller industry in general, I was surprised when I received a text from my decades - older father a few days ago:

Rather, as with products such as Flash, Adobe hopes to profit by giving away Reader Mobile in order to sell its Content Server 4 back - end software to publishers and booksellers.

As far as bringing in other booksellers, they plan to do this in Australia and perhaps New Zealand «in a few months» time» once the system is bedded iAs far as bringing in other booksellers, they plan to do this in Australia and perhaps New Zealand «in a few months» time» once the system is bedded ias bringing in other booksellers, they plan to do this in Australia and perhaps New Zealand «in a few months» time» once the system is bedded in.

The day was filled with provocative observations from innovative publishers, an author or two, and even retailers — as in Miriam Robinson's announcement that The Bookseller, itself, will work with Foyles in a February workshop to formulate plans for a 40,000 - square - foot «bookshop of the future.»

Emma Straub is a bookseller in Brooklyn and an entertaining Tweeter, and I've had my eye on her story collection ever since a) it was reviewed on The Book Lady's Blog and b) I saw that Lorrie Moore described it as a «revelation» on the book jacket.

The move is being seen as a means of protecting the interests of independent booksellers as much as it is to limit Amazon's monopoly in the segment.

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.

«We can't buy them,» says Becky Anderson, president of the American Booksellers Association, but speaking solely in her capacity as co-owner of Anderson's Bookshops in Naperville, Ill. «We have to stand our ground.

It seems as though all of the negative publicity in the past 24 hours has prompted the bookseller to issue an emergency firmware update for the Nook and has promised in the next few weeks it will remove this spyware altogether.

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.

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

Adrian's first novel, An Accident Waiting to Happen, was published in print by Penguin Books in 2004, described by The Bookseller as «Extraordinarily engaging and sensitive, wringing one's emotions.»

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.

Completed reviews run on the BlueInk website, which has special features designed to help publishers and literary agents find promising new material and to help librarians and booksellers discover titles their patrons will be interested in, such as those written by local authors or set in their regions.

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.

This, in turn, meant that booksellers can order Hampstead Fever exactly as they would a trade - published book.

In the old days, a title tagged as POD would often be considered inferior by booksellers.

As Scalzi explains on his blog, «In the course of the production of my book, it is touched and receives positive benefit from (in no particular order): A writer, an agent, an editor, a copy editor, an art director, an artist, a book designer, a marketer, a publicist, a distributor and a bookselleIn the course of the production of my book, it is touched and receives positive benefit from (in no particular order): A writer, an agent, an editor, a copy editor, an art director, an artist, a book designer, a marketer, a publicist, a distributor and a booksellein no particular order): A writer, an agent, an editor, a copy editor, an art director, an artist, a book designer, a marketer, a publicist, a distributor and a bookseller.

As Benedicte Page reports at The Bookseller, these are only two of many data points in the Publishers Association's Statistics Yearbook for 2015, which shows a 1 - percent overall increase in sales, per invoiced value.

As with visits to booksellers, visit libraries with your info package and ask to speak with the person in charge of events.

As the grandson of a bookseller and the son of a librarian, you could say books are in his blood.