Sentences with phrase «as bookstores take»

Retail outlets such as bookstores take the highest distribution fees.

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It uses its Whole Foods stores as delivery hubs, has partnered with Kohl's on taking returns, and the online giant has bookstores, a prototype grocery store, and more physical ideas being tested.

Audrey's character, Jo Stockton, is discovered at a fashion shoot in a bookstore and her adventures as a model take her all the way to Paris.

In this Reverse Shot Talkie, director Matías Piñeiro browses the aisles of a Greenwich Village bookstore with host Eric Hynes to talk about adaptation as an art of taking liberties, the beauty of mess, and his ongoing relationship with William Shakespeare, whose plays have inspired many of his films, including his latest, The Princess of France.

In this Reverse Shot Talkie, director Matías Piñeiro browses the aisles of Greenwich Village bookstore Mercert Street Books with host Eric Hynes to talk about adaptation as an art of taking liberties, the beauty of mess, and his ongoing relationship with William Shakespeare, whose plays have inspired many of his films, including his latest, The Princess of France.

And never fear if you've become a die - hard digital fan since the day your first Kindle arrived... many indie bookstores have affiliate agreements to sell ebooks and e-readers, as well as ways you can take advantage of other in - store offers.

With libraries around the world coming under almost as much threat of demise as brick - and - mortar bookstores, one UK library system is taking legal action to fight back against proposed budget cuts in their county that will mean the planned closing of a number of local public libraries.

The plot revolves around a San Francisco web designer who takes a job as a clerk in a mysterious 24 - Hour Bookstore... which turns out to be much more than just a bookstore.

While the online bookstore has taken over the brick - and - mortar store in popularity, there are still places (such as the library) where your book might benefit from being near other well - known authors.

Amazon's foray into the world of brick - and - mortar retail could be taken as confirmation of the growing desire for physical bookstore locations, he added, but the Amazon stores are adopting a different approach from many independent book sellers.

Although indie bookstores took a hit during the first decade of the 21st century, 2017 gave rise to increased bookstore sales as well as an increase in the number of indie bookstores opening up and holding their own.

As a firm supporter of independent authors, publishers and bookstores, she has recently taken on the role of UK Editor for the Historical Novel Society Online Review for self - published historical fiction produced in the UK.

Macmillan is also worried that normal bookstores, made of bricks and mortar, will take a hit as sales are lost to much cheaper electronic editions.

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.

And in a field where a book leaving an author's hands and finding its way to the bookstore shelf can take as long as two years, electronic submissions greatly speed up the process.

The brands that survive either sell hardware with built in bookstores or offer a unique experience, such as digital note - taking (Sony Digital Paper, Remarkable, Onyx Note, and Good e-Reader 13.3) or an Android - driven experience that's not locked into a walled garden and gives the user the flexibility to install their own apps.

But as bookstores continue to disappear — even faster than in other countries, according to Ahn — ebooks are taking hold simply due to their availability.

Our staff and our patrons take pride, I think, in the fact that we are an independent bookstore and a part of a university that values its bookstore as a community center.

One initiative which took place last week in California saw not only a surge in bookstore traffic, but in revenue as well.

Spark immediately takes over sales to (& royalties from) bookstores & online retailers, as well as libraries that order through Ingram.

By forming a relationship with your local bookstore, presenting yourself as an author with a stake in the community, independent booksellers are more inclined to take a chance on your title.

We'll work with you as partners to take the words you've written and transform them into a professionally - published book ready for the online market and bookstore shelves.

Whereas a full - length work can easily take as much as two years to reach bookstore shelves under a traditional publishing model, ebook - only marketing of shorter works means that time can be as little as a few months.

But rebuttals to Howey's viewpoint from sites such as this one argue that Amazon is not actually a bookstore, and therefore doesn't deserve the 30 % take.

Wow, so Amazon drives all of the brick - and - mortar bookstore chains out of business, in part by taking advantage of its special sales tax status, and as soon as the last competitor gives up the ghost, starts planning to move into their shoes?

«With the release of IndieBound Reader, independent bookstores are taking another major step forward as players on the digital stage,» said ABA technology director Matt Supko in a prepared statement published in Publisher's Weekly.

The bookstore has over 2.3 million titles, but browsing these titles takes quite awhile, as each page takes a couple of seconds to load.

Unfortunately, proposals such as the one by the French Cultural Ministry aren't likely to take hold in the US to prevent the closing of more bookstores.

One in six boys surveyed by the Trust have never been given a book as a present and one in five say they haven't been taken to a bookstore.

Major bookstores such as Chapters / Indigo are already taking pre-orders.

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Fortunately for my wallet, all it took was going with him to the university bookstore and then to the off - campus used bookstore once to compare prices for his textbooks to get him to understand the need to buy used as often as possible.

First of all, the Kindle will continue to take on more meaning as a bookstore rather than a hardware device.

There used to be Tower (yes, there was a BOOKstore), but the fall of Tower Records took down Tower Books as well.

Despite the fact that the Expresso machinery takes up almost as much space as some entire bookstores and looks a lot like — am I dating myself much here?

While there is nothing wrong with this, the length of time it takes to break in this way is a negative, as is the declining number of bookstores.

The publishing house would take care of related services such as editing, printing, selling, and promoting your book to outlets such as bookstores.

In the past three years I've heard a lot of stories (over 300 documented) that took place in bookstores as part of my research which has shaped my appreciation for

If we treat browser window as a bookstore's shelf, the four book covers you see above take no more than 5 % of the total display space.

On the day I received my first box of books (cue Marty McFly moment as George opens a box full of his new novels at the end of Back To The Future), I took a copy to our local bookstore, introduced myself to the owner, and asked if they would consider stocking it.

This creature, he goes on to argue, set the goal of building a bookstore as dramatic in scope as the Library of Alexandria; such a goal seems «puny» compared to what Amazon today actually is, a technological and logistical marvel that can deliver books to your phone in the time it takes to yawn.

In the self - publishing world, poster child Hugh Howey worked as a yacht captain and a bookstore clerk before his author career took off.

Their UK partner bookstore, WH Smith, took a harsher measure to close down their online store with the official statement citing the cause of the problem as «a number of unacceptable titles.»

I thought indie - bookstores would be the natural place to start pitching my self - pubbed non-fiction historical research title... but as a small business, it seems they are even less likely to take risks on indie authors.

I'll talk about Google and Apple as possible white knights a bit later, but for now I'm predicting that Amazon is just going to keep growing and taking market share from bookstores in 2016.

«Part animal primer, part detective tale, part existential treatise, veterinary behavioral medicine expert Vint Virga's new book takes us in the minds and motivations of our four - legged friends, and reveals what their actions can show us about ourselves (if we stop to pay attention)... just as apt for the Personal Growth as the Nature section of the bookstore.»

I could take a stroll in the local bookstore, which isn't really «local» so much as it is Barnes and Noble now, and find a wide selection of books.

CR: As well as 3 traditional gallery spaces in London, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the touring exhibition will also take place in a bookstore in Riga (Latvia), which is quite an non-traditional space for Digital ArAs well as 3 traditional gallery spaces in London, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the touring exhibition will also take place in a bookstore in Riga (Latvia), which is quite an non-traditional space for Digital Aras 3 traditional gallery spaces in London, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the touring exhibition will also take place in a bookstore in Riga (Latvia), which is quite an non-traditional space for Digital Art.

Due to the amount of time that you are allowed to preregister to take the test, I was studying the scanned versions of practice tests purchased from the University bookstore, before receiving all of the available HTML tests from LSAC, and as a result I had actually encountered one of the tests before receiving the HTML version, thus the problem of information exposure made this test unrepresentative of actual performance, and I had even less ability to gauge my performance, and improve my LSAT writing skills.