Sentences with phrase «bookstore owner who»

I was talking to my used bookstore owner who happens to be the largest seller of independent / self - published books on the West Coast (I'm taking him at his word) and he basically told me that with the Kindle and with Amazon's self - publishing program, they have the power to make or break any author by including them or excluding them from their site.

When I got home that night, I received a message on Facebook from a local bookstore owner who wanted to carry Don't Eat Your Boogers in her store.

Linda (voice by Leslie Mann), his owner, is a timid, bespectacled bookstore owner who has never journeyed far from the snowy community where she lives.

The project is called «Labor of Love» and Bruce Willis will play a quiet bookstore owner who agonizes over the fact that he never properly told his wife how much he loved her before she died.

The buzz was slightly misleading: He's a hapless, amateur pimp — a bookstore owner who impulsively decides his florist friend (John Turturro) is suave enough to help him make a little money on the side.

Not exact matches

The current owner, who opened the bookstores in the mid 1970s with help from her sister, has built up an inventory worth $ 83,000 and a loyal customer base.

New age bookstores who catered to pagans were often the worst and the owners and employees who practiced paganism would spread lies about my belief system.

The affidavit says the bookstore owner also reached out to people who buy and sell rare books to alert them that the book had been stolen.

Characters like Mike (Joseph Gilgun), Gethin (Andrew Scott), a bookstore owner, and Jonathan (Dominic West), an actor get together with Steph (Faye Marsay), who is the only lesbian in the club.

«In the game, players will take on the role of roguishly handsome Gabriel Knight, a struggling author and owner of a bookstore in New Orleans, who is investigating the Voodoo Murders for his new book: a series of savage ritual killings surrounded by voodoo trappings.

Even with the recent news of a local citizen in the US who launched a Kickstarter campaign to purchase her town's independent bookstore from its retiring owners, a bookstore closing due to the age and employment status of its proprietor isn't attention grabbing.

Your book should come up in conversation more with the bookstore owner, who already knows you, as opposed to you pitching the book to them.

In addition, compared with the general public, owners of e-reading devices who use the internet are also more likely to get recommendations from online bookstores or other websites (56 % vs. 34 %).

The 77 - year - old author and bookstore owner, who's best known for epics like Lonesome Dove, hasn't published a novel since 2009's Rhino Ranch; he's been focusing on his memoirs and an epic biography of Custer.

When Locke struck a sweetheart distribution deal with Simon and Schuster, his books appeared in bookstores, but few owners and shoppers knew who he was; as a result, his books languished in the lower rent area on shelves at the back of stores.

While the process in not very streamlined and certainly isn't superior to simply purchasing books on Kobo.com, it offers consumers a way to show their financial backing for business owners who are often struggling to even keep up with — let alone compete with — major chain bookstores and online entities.

Ifeanyi Menkiti, who was born in Onitsha, Nigeria, and moved to Massachusetts eventually becoming owner of the nation's oldest poetry bookstore, tours the vast literary landscape of the greater Boston area.

«The tax on books and the closure of libraries is an attack on writers, bookstore owners, publishers, and students (who are being hit by this budget six ways to Sunday, through school closures, deep cuts to the university, threats to the tuition freeze, the loss of grants, job losses in the community colleges, and a hike in the price of already - expensive textbooks).

Author One Stop will represent authors who are looking for literary agents, publishers, and / or media, librarians and bookstore owners at the largest trade show for the entire publishing industry in this country.

Before your book can be displayed on bookstore shelves, your book's title has to «sell» the bookstore owners, managers, and category buyers who will order your book from the publisher in order to display it in their stores.

Since shelf space is important to bookstore owners, they want to ensure they are using it for the best return on investment, and who can blame them?

The New Yorker's «Book Bench» blog points out that Assassin of Secrets lifts so many passages from other sources that the book is more of a «pastiche or collage, rather than a «novel,» as we properly understand the word» and that Q.R. Markham (the pseudonym for Quentin Rowan), who is a poet and part owner of a bookstore in Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn, may have consciously perpetrated an elaborate hoax.

Avatar bookstore owners and assistants who can talk about their recommendations - the same personal touch you get in independent bookstores

It could be their editor, agent, or publicist; other writers and peers who helped provide guidance or make introductions; bookstore owners, librarians, and reviewers who spread the word; or the readers themselves who didn't just buy the book, but connected with the author, each other, and helped turn the book into a conversation.

Among e-reading device owners who read e-books, whites are more likely than minorities to look for e-books first at an online bookstore or other website, and those making less than $ 50,000 per year are more likely than those in higher income households to look first at a library.