Sentences with phrase «biggest bookstore chain in»

Throughout 2016, the biggest bookstore chain in the United States struggled.

One month later, Saraiva, the biggest bookstore chain in the country, launched its e-bookstore.

Borders, the second - biggest bookstore chain in the country, went under, signaling a shift in priority from print books to e-books.

Not exact matches

After drawing a lot of attention back when it was first announced by Viz Media, volumes one and two of Pokemon Black & White have hit comic store shelves (they were in most big chain bookstores a couple weeks back).

In the 1990s the «Big and Nasty» chains like Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books - a-Million — with their sweetheart deals with the Big 6 Publishers — put 1000s of indie bookstores out of business.

Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to chain bookstore shelves than the big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort of buzz about their books.

Since February 2014, Tamblyn and Aiki have led Rakuten Kobo through some significant advances: Rakuten's acquisition of OverDrive; the launch of Kobo's digital reading service in Mexico with two of the country's biggest bookstore chains, Librerias Porrúa and Gandhi; and the acquisition of the customers from Sony's eBook business and from the UK eReading service BlinkBox.

I think we will always have brick - and - mortar bookstores in some form or fashion, but it's clear that the heyday of the big - box chain bookstore is just about over.

In the United States, Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookstore chain, took a much bigger gamble by investing heavily in the creation of its own e - reader / tableIn the United States, Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookstore chain, took a much bigger gamble by investing heavily in the creation of its own e - reader / tablein the creation of its own e - reader / tablet.

The buy decisions for big chains are made in the central office, not the individual bookstores.

There were already more established ereaders, offered by more well - known companies, when they entered the market, and they had no big retailer support, whereas in many of the international markets where they've gained a substantial following they were partnered with a major bookstore chain and arrived before the Kindle was available.

The screed does make one useful point by noting how, in the past, chain bookstores and big distributors were hardly angelic in their dealings with publishers.

So you get that concentration of power in a relatively small number of big publishers and bookstore chains.

VB: It used to be that writers were discouraged from doing a «small book» in the middle of a career of bigger books, because the chain bookstores — the brick and mortar stores — kept close track of sales, and low sales would hurt the prospects for a writer's future books.

What's dramatic about this biggest of all US bookstore chains in what may be near - extremis is, of course, what that death could mean to so many in the industry (not least the jobs lost) and to those who enjoy and depend on physical bookstores.

It seemed a perfect fit: Moore has a book to promote (he told the crowd at the bookstore last night that he had no interest in doing signings at big chain stores), and St. Mark's Bookshop is itself in trouble, and has asked its landlord, Cooper Union, the private engineering, architecture and art college, to reduce its $ 20,000 monthly rent (with backup from a local petition and a community board resolution).

And while some of its peers in the big - box space, such as Office Depot, can experiment with smaller stores because their customers come in looking for specific products that can be ordered through the chains» websites, a bookstore is too much about the experience of exploring new products in person for that to be a successful strategy for Barnes & Noble, notes Montgomery.