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Independent bookstores, which were already threatened by big chains, like Borders and Barnes & Noble, knew they would end up having to compete with Amazon's wholesale prices and scale.

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.

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Where it headed from there — bookstore shelves or the big screen in CinemaScope 70 mm — wasn't revealed, but the «Django Unchained» director still seemed smitten with the story's possibilities.

Hendrix is a big personality and that much comes through in the film, which is content to simply spend time in his presence, be it tuning a guitar, browsing a bookstore, or trying to patch things up with someone he just beat with a telephone.

Amazon has been making some big strides in extending its footprint outside of the U.S. with its Kindle e-readers and Kindle bookstore, but today it took a step to improve how it caters to Spanish spea

The biggest online retailer in South Africa, kalahari.com, has joined forces with the country's biggest discount books retailer, Bargain Books, in a move which place the Gobii e-reader in physical bookstores.

I'm not a big fan of Kindle ereaders (though the Oasis2 * might * change my mind, maybe) but the Amazon bookstore and KU are great services that you can use with * any * brand of ereader.

If you really want to compete with the big boys, however, and have hopes of selling a lot of books, it may be worth hiring someone to handle your cover art, creating something with a professional look that you could easily imagine seeing in a brick - and - mortar bookstore.

While big publishers have larger budgets and more influence with bookstores, indie authors get to keep all their profits.

Steven, Your company may be smart and not end up with 40 % returns but that is not unusual for the big 5 from my understanding in talking to bookstores and people who work for the big 5.

I would never sign with another publisher unless they offered either a huge advance or something I wouldn't have access to as an indie, such as a promotional budget or shelf space in big bookstores, translation deal or a film deal, etc (I know film isn't handled via the publisher, but that's the kind of thing I mean — something I can't do on my own).

One of the problems I keep seeing with big publishing is you guys stick to current models and don't look at down the road or how something could help smaller bookstores (think a POD in an indie bookstore) or with books that aren't ordered as frequently.

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.

With big bookstores such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble listing your e-book you might wonder why you should even bother about setting up your own e-book store.

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.

With the number of bookstores closing, the bigger question needs to be asked.

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 the biggest problem with indie authors ruining bookstores is primarily due to companies like Smashwords.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

Amazon has been making some big strides extending its footprint outside of the U.S. with its Kindle e-readers and Kindle bookstore now available in a range of markets including Spain, but today it took a step to improve how it caters to Spanish speakers closer to home, with the launch of a new section of its U.S. Kindle store dedicated to books in Spanish.

I'm amazed at how many new writers still think a book launch involves an expensive party at a local bookstore, a big splash at a nearby book fair, press releases and interviews with hometown newspapers and radio stations.

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I have other writer friends (for instance, Michael J. Sullivan and Hugh Howey) who have achieved super-success first by self - publishing, but who then shrewdly parlayed their fame into select, carefully tailored deals with big publishing houses, which allowed them to expand their fan base to include bookstore customers, while still retaining most of their other rights.

Bottom Line: Sony's latest Reader Pocket Edition is indeed pocket - friendly, and comes with a nice touch screen and a big bookstore, but it $ 179 price and lack of Wi - Fi are dealbreakers.

As Passive Guy points out, «[t] he exquisite moral balancing described seems to ignore one big reality — most bookstore employees are working at minimum wage with little hope of being able earn enough from their employment to live in a pleasant residence, support a family or enjoy the even the most modest trappings of a middle - class life.

(If you want to do the more traditional stuff, libraries and bookstores, you're competing against traditional publishers with much bigger budgets and better connections.

Sony's latest Reader Pocket Edition is indeed pocket - friendly, and comes with a nice touch screen and a big bookstore, but it $ 179 price and lack of Wi - Fi are dealbreakers.

I've got an iPad full of a gazillion - affordably - priced - ebooks I purchased and haven't read yet; a house full of hundreds of print books I've yet to read; an ongoing addiction to big, old, dusty secondhand bookstores; and I belong to two big local library system with excellent print and ebook selections / services.

With the rise of online book selling and of ebooks, large, traditional publishing houses and big chain bookstores have been struggling to survive.

With «The Lion's Gate,» the book that we were talking about here, that had to be brought out by a mainstream publisher, it was too big a book, and it needed the push that a publisher could put behind it, getting it in bookstores and having a sales force and all that.

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.

The Site Which Shall Not Be Named will not be the only site left standing as many readers are returning to the bookstores in droves, and many authors are beginning to sell from their own sites instead of sticking with any of the big online stores.

Amazon and Barnes and Noble have two of the best digital bookstores in the United States and buying e-books is one of the biggest reasons why you buy an e-reader to begin with.

Though I apologize for making it so difficult for «good» writers to do even better, I don't for the multi-national media conglomerates that constitute the «big five» publishing houses and their stock holders, nor do I for the self - publishing companies and the «massive problems» (mentioned in another of your blogs) they're having with the influx of self - published titles to their online bookstores — a problem, I might add, of their own making.

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.

My act was on the road, and with every performance I tweaked the script, hammering out the details as I proclaimed them to strangers: all things happen in a cycle, I explained — the little bookstore had succeeded and grown into a bigger bookstore.

The big bookstore chains are wedded to the idea of big stores with huge, long - term leases.

One of the big problems with UK bookstores selling e-readers is that there is no consistency in the overall design.

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.

It contrasts with the trad publishing / big bookstore business model, where a book is a short - lived «event», sometimes lasting no more than three months.

What I do know is which authors are racking up big numbers with ebook sales: the same authors who are selling big in the bookstores.

But what really happens is that your book — along with thousands of other titles from big - name publishing houses — will be listed in databases from which bookstores order their books.

To this book publicist, that means working with a print on demand publishing company (such as the big two, CreateSpace and LightningSource) to get your book into the Ingram Books system and to make your book available through the online bookstores.

Barnes & Noble Inc. is to split in two, separating its unprofitable Nook digital business from its consumer bookstores, an acknowledgment of the difficulties the retailer faces in competing with bigger companies like Amazon.com Inc. in the e-book and hardware sector.

What I like about these is that they turn any business into a fully stocked bookstore with an inventory that rivals / exceeds the big chain bookstores.

With the news about some big box bookstores struggling to pay their bills or offer any new product, what, if any, initiatives does Marvel have to help smaller Direct Market stores increase their book product ordering without feeling their own financial pressures?

This means that a German bookstore can only order your books if they're signed up with CreateSpace Direct or the other big US distributors (like Ingram or Baker & Taylor).

Nor should they forget that the real problems for small bookstores came with the influx of the big box bookstores like B&N.