Sentences with phrase «big box book»

This whole culture / business model depends on big box book retail.

Besides would you really trust a big box book store like B&N to really sell your dead tree edition?

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Not exact matches

This is huge because the types of movies that usually only have second big weekends at the box office usually fall under one of two categories: They're either a comic book movie or sequel.

«The gatekeepers can no longer stop people from getting their voices heard, whether they're black, Hispanic, women or disenfranchised,» says JT McCormick, CEO of one of the industry's biggest new players, a company called Book in a Box.

The third of C.S. Lewis» «Narnia» books to make it to the big screen almost didn't happen when Disney lost the faith after the «disappointing» returns for «Prince Caspian,» with its worldwide box office gross of $ 419 million.

A largely unknown story outside of teen reader circles, it has become a juggernaut, breaking records for advance cinema booking, recording the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel in Box Office history, and grossing double its substantial budget within a week.

So I'm reading Tribes by Seth Godin, which is a fantastic book on leadership that I highly recommend to those of you who like to think outside the box, pursue big ideas, or quit your job and stick it to The Man.

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To make sure you don't spend the hours stuck on the sofa bored out of your brains and starving to death, stock up your living room with books / tv box sets / magazines or whatever you're into and always have a big glass of water near by.

Another is a traveling library with a big box of books parents can borrow.

You'll find 4 exclusive issues of DC comic books featuring the JUSTICE LEAGUE in specially marked boxes of Big G cereals from now through April -LCB- while supplies last -RCB-.

CEO for the anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday PAC; She's an antitrust and media expert, covered extensively in her book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United; Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign; Cofounded «A New Way Forward», designed to break up big banks «too big to fail» which damaged small businesses after the 2008 crash; Involved with Occupy Wall Street; National director of the non partisan Sunlight Foundation which works to make Congress more transparent; Works to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking in NYS;

They gave us a huge box of research, down to movies that were big during that time period and books on Khomeini and The Shah.

It's another origin story we're familiar with in the world of comic book heroes, but given the emphasis on magic and alternate dimensions, there are many other toys in the toy box to play with to keep it all feeling like something new to the universe of big - screen superheroes.

2013 has definitely been a year of big comic book movies so far, with Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel both performing laudably at the box office, but one comic book adaptation that seems to have flown under the radar is acclaimed South Korean director Bong Joon - ho's (The Host, Mother) dystopian sci - fi drama Snowpiercer.

If there's a fourth Narnia movie - and that's a kinda big if, judging by the unspectacular box office performance of the last two films - Walden Media executive Michael Flaherty has confirmed it will be prequel book The Magician's Nephew, skipping the arguable highpoint of the series, The Silver Chair, and the entertaining but racially problematic The Horse and His Boy.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

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Book Club might have been the third biggest earner at the box office this weekend, but the fact it ties into Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed likely earned it some brownie points with its target audience.

His track record shows that a director with a distinctive style who's given leeway by the studio to deviate from the norm can make a crowd - pleaser that brings in the big bucks at the box office and also lands critical accolades — whether it's by reimagining comic book movies as political commentary (in the Dark Knight trilogy), sci - fi as quasi-post-apocalyptic family drama (Interstellar), or detective noir as psychological drama (Insomnia, Memento).

Experimental in its approach, candid about sex, and vicious in its attacks on American conformity and consumerism («Plastics»), the film, adapted by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham from Charles Webb's book, also became a rallying cry for the period's youth, widening the generation gap and emerging as one of the biggest box office smashes of its decade.

Comic book movies continue to be big business — according to the website Box Office Mojo, the three highest - grossing movies of 2014 so far are «Guardians of the Galaxy,» which is based on Marvel characters, «Captain America: The Winter Soldier,» which tells the story of the Marvel superhero, and «The Lego Movie,» which featured comic book characters such as Batman.

According to Box Office Mojo, the two comic - book - based films that had biggest second weekend drop - offs were 2010's «Jonah Hex» and 2003's «Hulk» (both 69.7 percent), although they didn't open nearly as huge as both of this year's Warner Bros..

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For example, in the chapter on pitching retail outlets to carry your books, you'll learn why you must approach independent bookstores differently than the big box stores like Walmart and Costco.

Back when my first novel was published in 1997, authors went on book tours, scheduling talks and signings at bookstores, groceries, and even stopping at drugstores and big - box retail stores to sign books on the shelves.

The advent of the modern big - box retailer, coupled with the decline of local comic book shops, diminished your chances of

Libraries, bookstores, gift shops, Big Box chains, Apple... do you really want to wager your book's future and ignore every other retail option?

Because Ingram distributes to all of the major players (online and physical stores, libraries, gift shops, Big Box chains, Apple, and many more around the globe), you have access to an incredible amount of opportunities to sell your book.

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.

Under that 1981 law, books in the country were sold at a fixed price, which was meant to protect small booksellers from the ravages of big box discount stores and retail chains that were already cropping up even then.

No online vendor or big box store can — or would — stock a huge variety of local interest titles, keep a tally of which books in the such - and - such series you have already bought and which you need to order, or offer that first - time local author a table alongside best - selling authors like Wendy Corsi Staub.

Walmart and other big box retailers saw their book sales fall 24 % last week and sales through the retail and club channel were down 8 %.

The company is big enough to be stocked by major retailers and to pack a bit of marketing swag in the box — a T - shirt and a book bag, in my case.

I remember the book buyers at a big box trying to convince John Grisham that his title «King of Torts» needed to be changed.

When you're playing that kind of game, the Big Five publishers have a huge advantage — their sales teams pitch books for placement at bookstore accounts, big - box stores, specialty retailers, and so Big Five publishers have a huge advantage — their sales teams pitch books for placement at bookstore accounts, big - box stores, specialty retailers, and so big - box stores, specialty retailers, and so on.

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My mom didn't, either, and I'm about to ship her a big box full of books that she reads or has expressed an interest in.

So, the harm was still mainly coming from the big box stores that could offer the same books as the smaller stores but at a lesser price.

CR: I've gotten a bookseller, a librarian and a book buyer from a big - box bookstore to come on, talking about issues with self - publishing.

In an era of e-readers and instant book downloading, many independent bookstores are already suffering; even the big - box stores like Borders are making headlines as they try to stay afloat in a market of paperless literature.

A big box of 10 books is on its way to one lucky voter, Amy from Illinois, whose favorite book is And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (# 9).

This post was written a year and a half ago, before the big book - gifting scandal with boxed sets happened last summer..

Collins Big Cat Books, Monster at the End of the Book, Dr Seuss ABC, Cat in The Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Go Away Big Green Monster, Three Little Pigs, The Kissing Hand, Three Little Gators, The Lorax, Groovy Story of Tortoise and Hare, Country Mouse City Mouse, Teddy's Night, Miko Goes on Vacation, The Chalk Box Story,

Inevitably any book is a big box into which you put all your odd material, and the character of Pran going in this slightly quizzical way through life is very like some of my experiences of trying to come to terms with my racial identity.

Price fixing, in this case, not only preserved the publishers» ability to inflate the retail price of physical books, it helped independent book stores preserve the high retail price they need to compete with Amazon, Wamart and big box bookstores.

People still want books - they still want to buy them from bookstores - many people are tired of big box and in part because of borders jerking readers around for so long.

Lequin is right to say that they have continued to force the trend towards highly discounted books, but wrong to say they are responsible for the best seller mentality, which came from publishers and big box stores.