Sentences with phrase «as bookstores did»

The Australian retail sector as a whole experienced very flat growth across 2010 — 14, before picking up, as bookstores did, in 2015.

Not exact matches

When speaking about starting Amazon, Bezos explained that he did not know he was ready to leave his job as a software developer on Wall Street when he came up with concept of an online bookstore.

Not only did the store thrive, the San Francisco Weekly named the shop in its Best of San Francisco issue as the «best reimagined bookstore» in a city with a gazillion book stores.

I don't mean to objectify you when I gaze admiringly as you browse in the bookstore (although rest assured, I wouldn't come up to you and gush), or when I tweet to an adult blogger with CP that I find her inspiring.

I remember you mentioning at the bookstore that you were trying to go fully began — big huge congrats on doing so and glad you found Nutramilk as I remember you saying milk in your coffee / tea was hard to replace!

If your daughter, niece, or grandchild is a Barbie fan already, a title like Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer might catch your eye, but don't be deceived: as The Mary Sue reports, this book is a big a pile of sexist dreck as you're likely to find in the bookstore.

Uniquely yours: Yes, it's known as one of the largest feminist bookstores in the country, but as the name implies, kids do come first.

Look for Dare, Dream, Do at bookstores nationwide, as well as at online retailers such as Amazon, B&N, Indiebound.

As you do a quick search online or browse the shelves at your local bookstore, you come to realize that there are a ton of books out there and it is hard to know which one to choose.

It's possible that restricting the lower VAT to physical books only was done as part of this policy (since ebook sales would never benefit bookstores), but this is pure speculation on my part.

Phillips sometimes instructed her volunteers to browse, as they might do at a bookstore.

I'm running a bit late (as I often do), frantically looking up at the monitor and searching for my gate, when out of the corner of my eye, I see my own face looking back at me from the airport bookstore.

A chic button - up shirt can work just as well in the bookstore as it does in the boardroom.

Perhaps neither was quite suited for this material as Berg's skill with non-fiction doesn't translate to her first narrative film and Holofcener's gifts with character are smothered by the twisting and turning requirements of airport bookstore thriller fiction.

If you don't yet have much of a following on Facebook, consider offering a $ 25 gift card to a bookstore as incentive for people to enter your giveaway.

One point I didn't think logical, though, as someone who does some signing sessions, is that you don't sell as much in some bookstores than in others.

Most school bookstores do, too, but they don't usually offer the best prices — so use them as a last resort for selling books back.

Most bookstores haven't gone as far as Village Books in developing their publishing imprints but many do offer writing and publishing programs geared to indie authors.

I see this as siphoning money from writers; I don't see this as impacting bookstores because, well, they won't be there.

Meanwhile, the ranks of indie bookstores are actually growing as they embrace what they do best: curation and customer service.

Just wanted to clarify that all Cybooks * are compatible * with Adobe DRM, including the Cybook Muse FrontLight, and you can read ebooks from any online bookstore (in any language) as long as they are in epub format, all you need to do is download them to your computer, then transfer them to your Cybook via usb.

The Kindle Oasis is the fastest of the three, and the bookstore is awesome, but I just don't LIKE the Oasis as a device.

If you weren't able to get tickets, get in touch with your local bookstore; they may livestream the interview, as Parnassus is planning to do.

As lovers of books, libraries, and a fair shake for authors, one thing we can all do is support our community libraries and local bookstores.

He did sign with publishers to get his books in bookstores, but was in a position where he felt as though it was a true partnership.

As an avid reader, lover of books, and independent bookstore champion, I really don't know the answers to any of these questions.

But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.

Indeed, our not - so - independent - as - all - that bookstores here in the Portland area apparently don't even bother to read the cover blurbs (since these stores feature and proclaim the very authors cited, yet will neither schedule a reading from this novel, nor accept except — after much pleading — a very few copies on consignment.

I do twice as many events at libraries than I do at bookstores these days, and all of them allow me to sell books at the end of the event.

He dropped out of college and moved from job to job, being a Caribbean yacht captain, doing computer repair, roofing, and finally working in a small Appalachian town as a bookstore clerk.

Some do find creative means of stocking their physical book, such as working directly with their local bookstore or drumming up support from local writing groups.

For the trade paperbacks, the price range also allows WMG Publishing to do catalogs and give 40 - 50 % discounts to bookstores as well.

One this is for sure: if you launch an eBook and it does well, you can use a print - on - demand resource such as CreateSpace and Lightning Source to reach bookstores.

I would never sign with another publisher unless they offered either a huge advance or something I wouldn't have access to as an indie, such as a promotional budget or shelf space in big bookstores, translation deal or a film deal, etc (I know film isn't handled via the publisher, but that's the kind of thing I mean — something I can't do on my own).

If you aren't doing an event in a bookstore, you could choose a venue such as a charming local wine bar — something that has been popular with our events is to include on the invitation that the first 20 (or whatever) people to come or to buy a book (your choice) will get a ticket for a free glass of wine.

As it happens, the time - honored ways to generate word of mouth for books that are typically available to traditional publishers — such as bookstore signings, traditional media coverage, and critical reviews — don't work as well as they used tAs it happens, the time - honored ways to generate word of mouth for books that are typically available to traditional publishers — such as bookstore signings, traditional media coverage, and critical reviews — don't work as well as they used tas bookstore signings, traditional media coverage, and critical reviews — don't work as well as they used tas well as they used tas they used to.

As long as brick and mortar bookstores and libraries don't disappear, I'm okay with iAs long as brick and mortar bookstores and libraries don't disappear, I'm okay with ias brick and mortar bookstores and libraries don't disappear, I'm okay with it.

My understanding is that few bookstores will carry a POD book because most PODs (including Lulu, if I understand correctly) do not offer the same terms for returns (if they're allowed at all) as a traditional publisher offers.

Sales from your web site, the Lulu bookstore, local bookstores, and events such as book signings do not require an ISBN.

One of the problems I keep seeing with big publishing is you guys stick to current models and don't look at down the road or how something could help smaller bookstores (think a POD in an indie bookstore) or with books that aren't ordered as frequently.

Really good advice in this podcast, especially to do impromptu book signings at airports when traveling (using Twitter to get the word out) and going into non-traditional book stores such as airport bookstores, spas, hotels and other places that sell books and talk to the manager.

We know that some authors have strong feelings about some bookstores, as do consumers, and publishers.

Indie booksellers will add your book on consignment sometimes, and LS books might look a little prettier, but I've done just as well getting Createspace books into bookstores and don't notice a huge difference in quality.

Platforms such as Createspace can offer Expanded Distribution which makes a title «available» to and through bookstores, libraries, etc., but, unfortunately, this does not guarantee «placement» in any particular outlet.

Looks at Borders and how it didn't adapt to the changing times and demands of its customers, up to and including having Amazon as its online bookstore.

Your website needs to represent you as if you were standing in a bookstore selling your books, doing a reading from your books or were at a book signing.

No matter where you take the print book, no matter what room you read it in, it will remain in the same form and have the same affordances as it did on the day it was first stacked in the bookstore.

Christine — As a bookstore manager, you probably know more about what titles actually sell than that robot does, so don't take it too seriously.

But that is a far cry from saying print is being abandoned — and as for the unlikelihood of finding more than the odd graphic novel in the bookstore, I don't know what to make of that.

So I don't know, I kind of see the kobo people as the good guys, because of their partnership with the independent bookstore, rational price... I don't like the super aggressive attitude of amazon, but again Amazon gives you the feeling that if you don't find it in Amazon, you can not find it anywhere else, which is probably true, and that is a good feeling and add to that their books are the cheapest.