Sentences with phrase «bookstores out of business»

By free - riding on bookstores, and by selling millions of books below cost to acquire customers for other lines of business, Amazon put hundreds of neighborhood and community bookstores out of business.

You may have heard that Amazon is putting bookstores out of business, and this is true.

Then there's the argument that Amazon having its own imprints will drive print publishers and bookstores out of business.

While Amazon works to corner the selling market, drive small bookstores out of business, hold publishers up for a larger percentage of sales, they remain untouched.

«Maybe it's all a conspiracy, to drive the local bookstores out of business,» someone said.

The mandatory $ 15 / hr wage ran ALL of the other bookstores out of business.

They forgot about how the big box stores moved into the market in the 1980s and 1990s and drove most of the smaller, locally owned bookstores out of business.

In a way the greed of the publishers put the bookstores out of business.

Some people have called this phenomenon predatory pricing, devised to put the bulk of digital bookstores out of business.

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.

The owner of a large bookstore chain starts putting the owner of a small local bookstore out of business.

Not exact matches

Today even the mega bookstores are going out of business because people are buying much of their media online.

Had publishers treated Amazon like a retailer out to sell as many of their works as possible, rather than seeing this business partner as a threat to the bookstores they already worked with, they could have kept Amazon (or delayed them) from getting into publishing.

What if you knew the online bookstore you have buying e-books from for the last three years was going out of business.

All the bookstores are going out of business.

This has resulted in a number of companies to go out of business such as Blinkbox Books and the Sainsburys digital bookstore.

The bleak future where all bookstores have gone out of business never occurred and e-book sales have more or less stabilized.

Indie bookstores have been booming in recent years primarily because Borders went out of business and Barnes and Noble is struggling.

Sometimes this stems from our favorite bookstore going out of business and all of our purchases disappearing or the high cost of investing in digital.

Bottom line, though, when the industry fell upon hard times, and bookstores couldn't sell even 25 % of the books they ordered, publishers demanded their money, and chains like Borders went out of business, and Barnes and Noble and indie bookstores faltered.

The old way is no longer the new way, and unless the bookseller understands that, the bookstore goes out of business.

Every time a bookstore goes out of business I feel a sense of personal loss.

Barnes & Noble reporting slight gains in comparable sales in its core book selling business after years of declines that had led many to wonder whether the largest remaining bookstore chain might suffer the same fate as Borders, which went out of business four years ago.

e-Books have drastically altered the way we read and many bookstores have went out of business because their once loyal customer bought a Kobo.

I do still love my Sony and, from a business standpoint, I get why Sony is getting out of the bookstore business.

-- does not recycle — prefers solitude than being social — is not fundamentally loyal — doesn't care if bookstores go out of business

Things are bleak overseas with Weltbild, the second largest bookstore chain in Germany is going out of business and many in Australia and New Zealand have also disappeared.

On the other hand, Amazon has always proved itself to be an opponent of «e-fairness» at every turn, has done grievous harm to communities of readers across the country by driving booksellers out of business and leaving many cities without a bookstore at all.

The average person is just doing this to get a better deal, but effectively they are directly contributing to bookstores all over Canada, US and the United Kingdom going out of business.

All around the world, major bookstore chains have been going out of business.

Even if bookstores do better than he anticipates, it's pretty clear that many stores will have to close shop, and all of them will have to reduce their shelf space for books, in an attempt to widen out and sell other products that will keep them in business.

I'll admit, I love the indie bookstores and miss those that fell victim when Borders and Barnes & Noble came into the area and drove them out of business.

Howey pointed out that Amazon has actually helped indie bookstores by putting big box stores like Borders out of business.

Obviously, on the retail level there are a lot of indie bookstores closing, and with Borders going out of business, there is a lack of availability in your average small town.

I never pass up a bookstore, and the sign in the window said: «Going Out of Business.

Wow, so Amazon drives all of the brick - and - mortar bookstore chains out of business, in part by taking advantage of its special sales tax status, and as soon as the last competitor gives up the ghost, starts planning to move into their shoes?

Over the course of the next few years bookstores started to go out of business and many people thought print would die completely in the near future.

Yet notwithstanding the ill - considered notion that books are «a thing of the past» proffered by some, a view probably embraced by the same people who also (wrongly) thought that Amazon.com would have put Barnes & Noble out of business 10 years ago, it is our contention that physical books, and physical bookstores, are not going away anytime soon.

In a few short years most digital bookstores will be out of business and Amazon and Kobo will likely be the only players left standing.

More specifically, bookstores do this, of course, otherwise they would go out of business.

Over the past month, I've been watching the discounts climb at our local, on - its - way - out - of - business Borders bookstore.

This slim book was found at a used bookstore's going - out - of - business sale (alas), read by my mother, and then passed along to me.

They are moving into small storefronts — sort of like what they did before they were driven out of business by the big box bookstores like BN and Borders.

This is not my problem, except that Amazon has put a number of my retailer / bookstore customers out of business, which I suspect is the intent of deep discounts, and I fear someday having to rely too heavily on Amazon sales.

And as more and more brick and mortar bookstores go out of business, you know, that «distribution the publisher is promising seems less and less interesting.

And for «bookish» folks, this was a source of friction — the cheapening of books made them seem commoditized, and our beloved independent bookstores were going out of business.

The company, which has 675 bookstores in 50 states and 686 college bookstores, has been trying to avoid the fate of its former rival Borders Group, which did not adapt to the growing threat of the Internet and e-books and went out of business in 2011.

And shifting just 5 % of the market from physical books to digital ones all of a sudden means that the majority of books purchased are digital — and just like that, physical bookstores go out of business.

Even within the business, there are vast distances between the view of a Society of Authors chairwoman who asks her authors to give up their largest sales venue and the comments of Curtis Brown agent Gordon Wise, who, Campbell tells us, seems to have tried to point out some limitations of that «physicality» when it comes to a bookstore and the range of what it can stock.

If dedicated digital reading devices such as Amazon's Kindle weren't going to put the humble bookstore, with its shelves and shelves of printed books, out of business, sustained growth of media tablets, such as the Apple iPad, would.