Sentences with phrase «books than bookstores»

They started looking more like a big Five and Dime Store that sold books than bookstores.

I thought to myself: «It makes more sense to be a Pottery Barn selling a few books than a bookstore selling a few pots.»

Not exact matches

Any bookstore can also order it if you give them the full title: «Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World» — there are more than 60 Guerrilla Marketing books that cover other aspects of business and have nothing to do with what we've been talking about.

Any bookstore can also order it if you give them the full title: «Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green» — there are more than 60 Guerrilla Marketing books that cover other aspects of business and have nothing to do with what we've been talking about.

The flowering branches of Mulan magnolia that grace the cover of Joan Lok's new book on Chinese brush painting appear more brightly colored than in her original work, probably to catch the eye of someone browsing in a bookstore, guesses the author.

Requiring less than 24 hours of your time (and over 250 hours of ours), we create and publish a beautiful book that rivals the quality of any book found on the front table of major bookstores.

Pyramid editor Leslie Schwartz indicates one reason for the vast volume of religious paperback sales: «Rather than [in] a specifically religious bookstore, these books are sold in very open, public places.

you really need to start reading books bought from somewhere other than the christian bookstore.

More than a million visitors come to Mount Vernon each year, he said, and at the bookstore, the book they most request is a book on Washington's religion ¯ which they do not have.

If you got the book from somewhere other than Amazon (bookstore, gift from a friend, etc.), make sure to note where you got the book, since you won't have the «verified purchase» badge.

She knew she couldn't get into bookstores, so she would have to devise another way to get the word out about her book, Cat in the Flock — a much harder task than it would have been five or six years ago.

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.

Keep in mind, there are more books published each year than could fit in 7 totally empty bookstores.

Bookstores are NOT all willing to stock books that look like they were published less than professionally

We look for books that are unique, providing readers with something other than the standard commercial fiction already lining bookstore shelves.

Comic shops are not sale or return — it's just straight sale — so they're actually MUCH more up for this sort of thing than, say, an indie bookstore, which will just bitch about not being able to return unsold books.

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).

Anything less than 55 percent, and you may prevent your book from being ordered by bookstores and wholesalers.

With more than 1 million titles, including all the latest books from top authors and publishers, the Clean Reader bookstore offers the same books as any other online retailer and with comparable pricing.

But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.

I do twice as many events at libraries than I do at bookstores these days, and all of them allow me to sell books at the end of the event.

With deadpan humor and skeptical eye, the determined detective is on the case, and everyone who has the misfortune to be connected to Parker is a suspect — the failing mystery writer in town to sign books; the beautiful young wife, and the bookstore employee who appears to be more nervous than aggrieved.

The mobile app allows readers to find out if a particular book is available for sale cheaper than Amazon in an independent bookstore nearby.

Distribution through Ingram is critical to a book's mainstream success, and the only time distribution through Ingram wouldn't matter would be if your niche were so small that you were selling directly to your target audience rather than conducting a book promotion campaign to drive potential buyers to bookstores.)

IngramSpark's global distribution network makes your book available to more than 39,000 retailers and libraries around the world, including major and local independent bookstores, and reaches over 70 online channels, including Amazon, Apple iBooks, Kobo, and more.

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.

If you're willing to focus on online bookstores and accept that your book probably won't be carried in brick and mortar bookstores (though customers will still be able to order it), then you can set the discount to 20 %, rather than 55 %.

My only comment is this... I owned my own bookstore for more than a decade and bought many books on the basis of synopsis / pitch and cover.

Therin is professional to work with and my books look great - very high quality and professional looking even nicer than some of the books you might find published on the bookstore shelves!»

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.

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.

As a small press author for a press I adore (Hadley Rille Books), the promotion road is hard going, as I, and my books, are viewed as «less than» by other authors, bookstores, and the publishing community at lBooks), the promotion road is hard going, as I, and my books, are viewed as «less than» by other authors, bookstores, and the publishing community at lbooks, are viewed as «less than» by other authors, bookstores, and the publishing community at large.

A book has far less than a 1 % chance of being stocked in an average bookstore.

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.

Agents understand they can make more from self publishing than from book touting; even bookstore chains like Dymocks entered into self publishing as a service to prospective authors.

Unless the small press has a dedicated, exceptional sales team committed to marketing your book and getting you into bookstores (which some do, so check carefully), they are unlikely to be able to market any more effectively than the author can (and often less so).

The issue extends beyond the troubling decrease in independent bookstores — which now account for less than 10 percent of book sales.

Many writers, however, don't look much further than brick - and - mortar bookstores when they decide to host a book signing.

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.

I like printing a few hardcover versions through Lulu (because it's easier and cheaper to set up than Lightning Source) and taking some media kit shots of me in a bookstore (doesn't have to be an official «book signing» — you can even put a few on the bestseller shelf and take pictures of them there).

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

NOOK Tablet customers can shop the world's largest bookstore, featuring more than 2.5 million books, enhanced books, interactive magazines, newspapers, comic books and children's books.

More bookstores are going to have to take this approach (or one like it); if they don't Amazon will continue to drive wholesale prices down, shrinking profits to the point that selling books will be nothing more than a loss - leader for them.

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.

It is certified with Adobe, so you can buy DRM books at other bookstores, other than the default one.

More comic book stores closed in 2012 - 2013 than any previous year, which follows the bookstore trend of second hand and chains closing.

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).

At physical bookstores, if I found less than three or four books I was interested in buying, I'd make a second or third trip down the aisles looking for more books.

The survey of 2,045 UK book buyers found that while young people felt (or at least admitted to feeling) guiltier than older shoppers about using bookstores as showrooms, they were actually more likely to do so.