Sentences with phrase «began as a bookseller»

Unlike Amazon, which also began as a bookseller but evolved and branched out to other areas, BN remains a bookseller in the public's mind and most likely its corporate culture.

Not exact matches

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.

Book Expo began as a trade show to help booksellers, so publishers could generate interest and create sales.

The struggle that people within the industry face as we try to pitch your book to everyone else in the value chain — sales teams, marketers, booksellers, and ultimately readers — is why the gatekeepers at the very beginning of the chain (the literary agents) have to be so very selective about the authors we take on.

As we are reporting overnight at The Bookseller, Scribd has announced that it is «beginning to adjust the proportion of titles across genres to ensure that we can continue to expand the overall size and variety of our service... We will be making some adjustments, particularly to romance, and as a result some previously available titles may no longer be available.&raquAs we are reporting overnight at The Bookseller, Scribd has announced that it is «beginning to adjust the proportion of titles across genres to ensure that we can continue to expand the overall size and variety of our service... We will be making some adjustments, particularly to romance, and as a result some previously available titles may no longer be available.&raquas a result some previously available titles may no longer be available.»

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At The Bookseller, the questions we began asking ourselves as far back as December last year — when the doors shut on the FutureBook Conference 2014 — were what led us towards the event this year: what kind of industry does publishing want to be?