Sentences with phrase «better than a bookstore»

I wrote an essay on it last year (which I might repost here) where I explained why, but the bottom line is that my Amazon experience became better than my bookstore experience.

They're better than a bookstore voucher, and they're guaranteed to fetch a smile.

Not exact matches

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

By reading Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, (or better yet, «studying it»), you will learn more about fat loss than you would from an entire bookshelf of mainstream diet publications at your local bookstore.

Your chances of meeting a special friend or future spouse while serving your community are much better than they are at a club or bookstore — when you're passionate about your principles, you're bound to meet like - minded individuals.

Over the course of his career, he has spent time as a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a PR flack, a seriously terrible marine biologist and a slightly better - than - average competitive swimmer.

Of course 25 % of $ 100,000 is far more than 50 % or even 100 % of $ 100, so an author needs to consider how likely it is that they can handle each aspect of publishing their book well so that they produce a quality book that thousands of readers become aware of and can find in bookstores.

With a 50 % discount from us, bookstores can mark what doesn't sell at half price and do better than returning the books (bookstores pay the shipping for returns, and they pay employees to box up the books).

A book club with regular attendance can do unknown names that are not known names per se better than libraries or bookstores that need to attract a completely new crowd every time.

I think independent bookstores who offer more than books will survive — and if they offer used books, even better, since soon there won't be that many books in print.

More Than a Kiss is out at all good online bookstores.

I've also learned that putting books into bookstores on consignment isn't worth the time and effort: there are better, smarter, cheaper ways to sell books than to move them one by one in return for miniscule checks for a few dollars.

It also fails to take into account the fact that indie bookstores, where some of those less than best seller books could be found, were run out of the market by the influx of the big box bookstores in the 1980s and 1990s.

Over both 3G and Wi - Fi, the Nook's wireless bookstore worked well in my tests, although here again, it was less spritely than the Kindle.

Mainstream bookstores are better at selling graphic novels than comic books, and Marvel adapted its offerings to that.

Shop the world's largest digital bookstore of more than 2.5 million books, magazines and newspapers and enjoy helpful recommendations from Barnes & Noble's book experts, personalized based on favorite authors, as well as those from friends to decide what to read next.

On a trip through Wales more than a decade ago, the border town of Hay - on - Wye — where some 30 used bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon).

I am tickled that they are selling in the USA but I would have rather seen them take it to sell at independent book stores then advertise to go to your indie bookstore for one and help the little stores compete or sell at Best Buy but Walmart is better than nothing

And if, like most well - read people, you have tastes that are little more specific than just best sellers and highly - promoted new releases, finding new books that you might enjoy is still easier to do in an online bookstore than a brick - and - mortar.

When Clinton's 2003 title launched, the reading public still had the Borders chain, as well as a higher number of Barnes and Noble and Books - A-Million retail locations; independent bookstores were still holding their own better than they are now, too.

It's very difficult to find a good selection of English language books in bookstores here and they are always priced much higher than ebooks.

The online bookstore set up by Entourage is much smaller than the Amazon bookstore in that it has on offer just about 200,000 titles but has a much better layout than the Amazon.

And you know, I want a little bit of both: I want to be published sooner rather than later and more royalties, but I'd love to be in bookstores as well.

I did a book signing at a local bookstore that netted me more connections than money, but it was well worth it.

In fact, retailers or customers who order through the Outskirts Press wholesale bookstore actually save MORE money and get a better margin than if they were to order the same book wholesale through Ingram (that's what happens when you cut out the middle man).

Even if bookstores do better than he anticipates, it's pretty clear that many stores will have to close shop, and all of them will have to reduce their shelf space for books, in an attempt to widen out and sell other products that will keep them in business.

I did see more than one bookstore with the option to purchase online, but I felt good about having chosen that one, with the quality service that followed.

There are so many who have the right to put out their work, much of which is a darn sight better than some of the efforts I regularly come accross in bookstores.

For years now, niche bookstores (specializing in mystery, sci - fi, kids» books, etc.) have been seen as better positioned than most indie bookstores to survive the changing book retail landscape.

There is nothing better than walking into a bookstore and seeing rows upon rows of books, all of them available for my perusal.

Experience the entire NOOK family of products at www.nook.com or at the NOOK Digital Shops and displays in one of Barnes & Noble's more than 700 bookstores and other leading retailers including Best Buy, Target and Walmart, which will soon take pre-orders, and many others.

«With Kindle for Samsung, people around the world will have instant access to the best digital bookstore and reading experience, including more than half a million titles that are only available from the Kindle Store, and innovative features like Whispersync, Time to Read and much more.»

In the wake of the city's highly successful annual book fair comes this piece of good news: According to a recent study by the World Cities Cultural Forum, Buenos Aires has more bookstores per capita than any other major city in the world.

Brick - and - mortar bookstores maintained better sales performance than online bookstores for the second year in a row and even gained a higher percentage of overall book sales (49.2 % of book sales in 2014 compared to 48.6 % in 2013).

If bookstores want to compete, they have to give the customer a better home experience than they can get in their own homes.

And authors who have been accepted by an agent and a big 5 publisher, even if they're no better than one who hasn't, have a substantial bookstore exposure, and supposedly professional help with covers, publicity, editing and proofing.

Rather than take a jaded view of the situation, it is far better to assume that the bookstores would have been damaged by looters just for the thrill of it and the police were standing blockade because books — in any form — are a vital part of society.

So, if I believe Amazon sells books better than publishers, and if I believe authors benefit more if books are purchased from Amazon, why would Version 4 of Outskirts Press introduce a direct bookstore for readers?

Small presses, which use print - on - demand technology rather than cheap offset printing, can not afford to place your book in bookstores (because they have to pay for the high - priced ones that don't sell as well as the ones that do).

WMG Publishing Inc, without any real bookstore distribution yet, is doing better than this number on four author names and a dozen different books.

Maybe I'm wrong, but if publishers would reasonably price their books folks would be more likely to buy them from the local independent bookstore where they get good service than from the faceless Amazon.

There's nothing better than visiting an old bookstore with creaky wooden floors and finding a paperback edition of a book you loved.

Heck, there are 100X more «tricks» to find good ebooks that take less effort than driving to a bookstore and asking the clerk «what do you recommend.»

It's impossible not to wonder if comments of such grace and sincerity as Ozeki's might not do far more good for independent bookstores than Smith's cutting criticism of the authors on which those stores depend.

The Kobo bookstore is a good one, offering over 2 million books (though more than a million of those are free, public domain books that every ebook store has).

It's a system that works particularly well with online bookstores: Other than minor variations in print and cover quality, the reader never knows the difference.

The interface is far better than most, and it provides a better shopping arrangement than you get from lesser - known competitors such as Aluratek, Cool - er, and Cybook; for one thing, the bookstore integration via Wi - Fi means that you can buy a book while, say, sitting in an airport and waiting for your flight.

It's actually a better set up than going to a physical bookstore.

Bookstores need time to organize and promote events (both online as well as in print newsletters) and they often won't schedule events with less than two months notice.

«Realistically, in the bookstores, 2011 looks better than it was and 2012 looks worse than it was,» he said.