Sentences with phrase «at books in»

If you look at the books in a book store, or in your bookcase — no, I'm not talking about your Kindle ebooks — you will find they usually have a very similar structure.

It was also a business decision: I looked at the books in my genre that were bestsellers and hung a bit in there and found out quite a few of those were with Select.

Research has shown that people discover and purchase books from simply looking at books in both physical and online stores.

So I kept looking at the books in the top 10, especially the self - published thrillers and the ones that had the highest conversion rates, and tried to figure out what it was about those books that incited more people to buy them after they looked at them.

This introduction about LibriVox is more or less the talk I gave in San Francisco, at the Books in Browsers conference in October last year... and the second half of that talk was a lament about how constrained the ebook ecosystem has become, for various reasons.

Anna has presented on digital publishing topics at O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conferences in Frankfurt, at the Publishers Forum in Berlin, and in 2013 will present at Books in Browsers in San Francisco.

The idea of «context not container» was first raised at Books in Browsers in 2010 by Brian O'Leary of Magellan Media Partners in his presentation «Context First», and it continues to inform and influence thought about books and publishing.

It's easy to get angry at Amazon, because a human * should * be able to look at the books in the top 100 and make some reasonably sound judgments.

Again, I suggest you look at books in your genre by traditional publishers and see what they do.

Charlotte Meyn, 3, and Lola Meyn, 6, look at books in a Montessori classroom at Audubon Charter School's open house at its new temporary campus at the old Jean Gordon site in Gentilly Saturday afternoon.

We see this all the time at Book In A Box.

And when this happens, you look at the book in wonder and think, «Wow, I've never really enjoyed this book too much before, which is why it's been mostly ignored.

I wish at booking in, we were placed in to a well crafted pregnancy after loss pathway that tackled both mental and physical health care with experts in bereavement and maternity services — but we aren't quite there yet.

I want people to look at this book in 5 years.

«She's read almost all of your books,» Shawn offered, nodding at the book in my hands.

Most likely it takes page view to nomination ratios into account as well (if 50 people look at your book in a day and only 2 nominated, then it probably is a lot worse off than 15 people looking at your book and the same 2 nominating).

Think about what you do when you look at a book in the bookstore or a library.

Not exact matches

Schultz talks affectionately about his father in his book, «Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time,» saying that Fred was an honest man who worked hard, played ball with his kids on the weekend and loved the Yankees.

There's a lot of moving parts in the book, but at its core, it's about finding your voice and learning to make yourself heard, even if it's uncomfortable.

To date, she has collected more than 10,000 books and spoke alongside Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey at the United State of Women Summit in 2016.

«When I was writing my book I did the bulk of my writing at 4:30 in the morning.

For those in management, marketing, and sales at B2B tech companies, this book is a must - read.»

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

Last year, Paul English, a co-founder of the travel booking site Kayak — which Priceline bought for $ 1.8 billion in 2012 — looked at his calendar.

But in the book, Rey has another interaction with Plutt at Maz Kanata's castle.

«If the debits didn't equal the credits and they had to close the books and the CFO was yelling at them, they'd yell at me, and then I'd have to go find out why there was a bug in our software.»

I read this book well after I started my business, but I think the hardest lesson for entrepreneurs to grasp is that in order to give your business the best chance for success, you need to reinvest the profits for at least the first year.

In «Star Wars: Shattered Empire,» the canon comic book bridging the gap between Episode VI and Episode VII, Poe Dameron is born on Yavin 4, the same moon where Luke receives his medal at the end of «Star Wars: A New Hope.»

A thought - provoking post on Business Insider gathers evidence from Newport's book and elsewhere that the Microsoft founder was — in his youth at least — a true master of deep work.

Or, as Christine Bader describes in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culturIn the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culturin the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

For example, if your goal for the book is to help you book keynote speeches at major HR conferences, then the requirements for your book are very different than if your goal is to write a book that establishes your credibility and authority in a specific field so you can build a consulting business.

Since everyone at the outset is doing multiple jobs and since you can't be everywhere at once, you've got to trust your people to do the right things in the moment, since there's no rule book, no time for extensive preparation and instruction, and there's rarely a second chance to make a great first impression with a lot of new and prospective customers.

According to Jeffrey Augustine, author of the blog The Scientology Money Project, the church has a book value of $ 1.75 billion, about $ 1.5 billion of which is tied up in real estate, mostly at its headquarters in Clearwater and in Hollywood, Calif..

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

A heart - rending look at the shockingly common experience of eviction among the poor in Milwaukee (and across the country), this book also won praise from Bill Gates (whose foundation is now supporting the author's research).

The entire book is far too unwieldy at this point to try to do all in one place.

Steve Eisman, a fund manager at Neuberger Berman Group LLC in the U.S., was featured in Michael Lewis's book «The Big Short.»

Entrepreneur magazine asked me to detail our exact method in this post, so that you can do it yourself, at home, and finally finish the book you know you need to write.

So if we look at a range of market valuation measures, whether it's Shiller CAPE, whether its price - to - book, whether it's price - to - trailing earnings, price - to - peak earnings, when we look at these measures, they look like they're in the, what we would call, the 10th decile, meaning generally, valuations are cheaper 90 % of the time.

«The people out in Atlanta couldn't get a hotel because they were all booked due to the Final Four tournament going on at the same time.

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

He figured he might pull in an extra $ 40 or $ 50 a month, charging $ 5 at a time for services like reading scripts for commercials or doing narration for audio books.

In fact, many authors wait until their book is at the rough draft stage to finalize what they will use as hook material.

McGrady, who worked for Diana and the royal family from 1993 until she died in 1997, shared a few tidbits about the princess in his book, «The Royal Chef at Home,» his second cookbook that is set for release on September 1.

Many times in your book, you're genuinely anguished at the prospect of selling a company for a lot of money.

At the time, she was writing five books, meditating daily and running a startup in aggressive growth mode.

They can recommend the proper type of packing to protect your merchandise in transit, arrange to have the goods packed at the port or containerized, quote shipping rates and then book your merchandise onto a plane, train, truck or cargo ship.

Guests who believe they have experienced racism while using Airbnb may report instances of discrimination to the company or accept Instant Booking listings at a higher price than normal, but there's currently no policy in place to put them on a level playing field with other white guests.

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