Sentences with phrase «box bookstores»
"Box bookstores" refers to large retail stores that primarily sell books, often located in warehouse-like buildings. They are typically known for their wide selection of books and discounted prices. Full definition
I've run into this with other big box bookstores around the country.
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Note: Don't get discouraged if big box bookstores turn you away; many are restricted by corporate policies from helping authors outside of publisher - arranged collaborations.
Ask big - box bookstores about «local author» days.
At one point, there were at least a dozen big box bookstores within 20 miles of my house.
It's sad that it seems that the big box bookstores no longer seem to want that too.
It is my belief that the day of the large big box bookstores is over.
There's no room for big box bookstores like B&N today.
In an article entitled, Big - Box Bookstores Don't Have to Die, he shares the story of how Waterstones, the largest bookstore chain in Britain, has turned things around.
They were already dying as a result of the big box bookstores moving into their communities, stores like Barnes & Noble and Borders.
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?
You don't find them talking about how the influx of the big box bookstores destroyed the locally owned bookstores or how the poor business management and over-expansion of the big box stores then caused their own downfall.
Amazon is getting more aggressive about reaping $ $ from authors and publishers who want visibility in their store (including their OWN imprint) the same way big box bookstores like B&N have always done.
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.
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.
Big - box bookstores.
Once Amazon has been slain, the literary golden age of big box bookstores can return.
Big - box bookstores and their cozy deals with Big Publishing did that in the 1990s.
The age of the big box bookstores is waning.
For that matter, the big - box bookstores are in danger, too.
They forget that Amazon is the one place where readers can go to find just about anything they want, unlike the local big box bookstore that is limited to what their corporate purchasing office says it should stock.
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That is something that is all too often lacking in the big box bookstores.
Bookstores: If you're thinking about big - box bookstores, it may be somewhat difficult to get your book on the shelves (this is an understatement).
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.
Episode Thirteen, Meet the Book Buyer: Talking Big Box Bookstores and Genre Fiction with Elisa Munoz
Customers voted with their dollars when their only choices were the big box bookstore that mostly sold candles, or two - day free shipping and instant download ebooks.
Seriously, walk into any big box bookstore and take a guess how many individual titles there are on the shelves.
Despite the delaying tactics large publishers have been using to slow ebook growth, it's likely that in 2011 we'll see ebooks hit a tipping point where most big box bookstores will no longer be financially viable, and will close or move to smaller locations.
It was the big box bookstores.
Nor should they forget that the real problems for small bookstores came with the influx of the big box bookstores like B&N.
Amazon doesn't have to try to put the «big box bookstores» out of business, it's a natual progression.
Big Box bookstores are going bye bye.
I've said the big box bookstores are going to have to re-examine their business models and find ways to think outside the box or they will go the way of Borders.
Oh, wait, B&N and the other big box bookstores (most of whom are no longer in existence) put the majority of the indie stores out of business.
But, as I said many times in the months leading up to Borders» dissolution, a large part of the problem was the influx of the big box bookstores.
They increasingly prefer digital over print, Amazon over brick and mortar bookstores, fast shipping over driving to the big box bookstore to pay outlandish prices for hardcovers.