Sentences with phrase «buy less books»

Customers are buying less books because the average price rose from $ 9.99 to $ 17.99 for a new bestseller.

Where you are wrong is that by over pricing their ebooks people are buying less books of any kind from the corporate publishers.

Not exact matches

Under block booking, content providers (movie studios) required theatres to buy and show less - desirable B fare if they also wanted the A-list stuff.

Li quietly negotiated with the bank, now called HSBC Holdings Plc (hsbc), to buy Hutchison shares for less than half their book value.

I had spent so much money buying books about fishing, attending fishing conferences, going to Africa to fish, and founding the World Fishing Training Center that although it was true that I had never caught any fish, this did not make me any less of an expert in fishing.

What astonishes me is that anyone would publish these silly claims much less buy any of her books.

But that is all that Simpson will understand of his motives and of those who bought the book: «Reynard the Fox was also a seller because it answered to the intensely competitive, materialist conditions in which Caxton himself prospered, no less than it answers to our own times.»

Legions of less affluent collectors, Ferguson finds, gather up Lincoln stamps, playing cards, ashtrays, or even matchbook covers from «the Lincoln Life Insurance Company circa 1950, which you can buy, according to the book Collecting Lincoln, for a mere six dollars.

In reviewing this book it is tempting to employ a similar, albeit less metaphysical device: «Dear Sirs, Buy this book».

In our book, The Eco-nomical Baby Guide, we try to share a variety of money - saving options for going green with baby, but our favorite is to buy less and buy used.

Online bookstores like Amazon can maintain vast inventories of lesser - known titles because they don't have the real estate constraints of traditional bookstores and because the Internet makes it so much easier to find the niche readers who will buy those books.

I am new to keto and just bought access to the app and I've been looking for recipes and books that have less egg in them.

Not having read Stieg Larsson's series, I can only assume that perhaps the naturally slower pace makes the more ludicrous moments less distracting, but certainly films two and three haven't made me want to go out and buy the books.

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Carr — «How to Train Your Dragon 2,» «Over the Hedge» Jeeyun Sung Chisholm — «Ice Age: Collision Course,» «The Peanuts Movie» Jericca Cleland — «Ratchet & Clank,» «Arthur Christmas» Andrew Coats — «Smash and Grab,» «Borrowed Time» John Cohen — «The Angry Birds Movie,» «Despicable Me» Lindsey Collins — «Finding Dory,» «WALL - E» Devin Crane — «Megamind,» «Monsters vs Aliens» Ricardo Curtis — «The Book of Life,» «Dr. Seuss» Horton Hears a Who» Richard Daskas — «Turbo,» «Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas» Kristof Deák — «Sing,» «Losing It» Jason Deamer — «Piper,» «Monsters University» David DeVan — «Finding Dory,» «Brave» Walt Dohrn — «Trolls,» «Mr. Peabody & Sherman» Rob Dressel — «Moana,» «Big Hero 6» Stefan Eichenberger — «Heimatland (Wonderland),» «Parvaneh» David Eisenmann — «Pearl,» «Toy Story 3» Patrik Eklund — «Seeds of the Fall,» «Instead of Abracadabra» Steve Emerson * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «The Boxtrolls» Lise Fearnley — «Me and My Moulton,» «The Danish Poet» Mathias Fjellström — «Seeds of the Fall,» «Instead of Abracadabra» Arish Fyzee — «The Pirate Fairy,» «Planes» Juanjo Giménez — «Timecode,» «Maximum Penalty» Andrew Gordon — «Monsters University,» «Presto» Jinko Gotoh — «The Little Prince,» «9» Eric Guillon — «Sing,» «The Secret Life of Pets» Lou Hamou - Lhadj — «Borrowed Time,» «Day & Night» John Hill — «Turbo,» «Shrek Forever After» Steven «Shaggy» Hornby — «How to Train Your Dragon 2,» «Rise of the Guardians» Steven Clay Hunter — «Brave,» «The Incredibles» Alessandro Jacomini — «Big Hero 6,» «Tangled» Christopher Jenkins — «Home,» «Surf's Up» Sean D. Jenkins — «Wreck - It Ralph,» «Bolt» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - ItRalph» Oliver Jones * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «ParaNorman» Mohit Kallianpur — «Frozen,» «Tangled» Max Karli — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Victoria» Michael Kaschalk — «Big Hero 6,» «Paperman» Karsten Kiilerich — «Albert,» «When Life Departs» Timothy Lamb — «Trolls,» «Mr. Peabody & Sherman» Gina Warr Lawes — «Zootopia,» «Kung Fu Panda 2» Sang Jun Lee — «Rio 2,» «Epic» Meg LeFauve — «The Good Dinosaur,» «Inside Out» Jenny Lerew — «Mr. Peabody & Sherman,» «Flushed Away» Brad Lewis — «Storks,» «Ratatouille» Carl Ludwig — «Rio,» «Ice Age» Andrew Okpeaha MacLean — «Feels Good,» «Sikumi (On the Ice)» MaryAnn Malcomb — «Free Birds,» «Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron» Anders Mastrup — «Albert,» «When Life Departs» Moon Molson — «The Bravest, the Boldest,» «Crazy Beats Strong Every Time» Dave Mullins — «Cars 2,» «Up» Michelle Murdocca — «Hotel Transylvania,» «Open Season» Christopher Murrie * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «Coraline» Ramsey Naito — «The Boss Baby,» «The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie» Damon O'Beirne — «Kung Fu Panda 3,» «Rise of the Guardians» Hyrum Virl Osmond — «Moana,» «Frozen» Greg Pak — «Happy Fun Room,» «Super Power Blues» James Palumbo — «Ice Age: Collision Course,» «Ice Age: Continental Drift» Christine Panushka — «The Content of Clouds,» «The Sum of Them» Pierre Perifel — «Rise of the Guardians,» «Kung Fu Panda 2» Jeffrey Jon Pidgeon — «Monsters University,» «Up» David Pimentel — «Moana,» «Big Hero 6» Elvira Pinkhas — «Ice Age: Collision Course,» «Rio 2» Kori Rae — «Monsters University,» «Tokyo Mater» Mahesh Ramasubramanian — «Home,» «Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted» Ferenc Rofusz — «Gravitáció (Gravitation),» «The Fly» Vicki Saulls — «The Peanuts Movie,» «Ice Age: Continental Drift» Brad Schiff * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «The Boxtrolls» William Schwab — «Frozen,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Gina Shay — «Trolls,» «Shrek Forever After» Jeff Snow — «Over the Hedge,» «The Road to El Dorado» Peter Sohn — «The Good Dinosaur,» «Partly Cloudy» Debra Solomon — «My Kingdom,» «Getting Over Him in 8 Songs or Less» David Soren — «Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie,» «Turbo» Cara Speller — «Pear Cider and Cigarettes,» «Pearl» Peggy Stern — «Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood,» «The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation» Michael Stocker — «Finding Dory,» «Toy Story 3» Arianne Sutner — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «ParaNorman» Ennio Torresan — «Turbo,» «Till Sbornia Takes Us Apart» Géza M. Toth — «Mama,» «Maestro» Anna Udvardy — «Sing,» «Deep Breath» Wayne Unten — «Frozen,» «Tick Tock Tale» Theodore Ushev — «Blind Vaysha,» «Gloria Victoria» Robert Valley — «Pear Cider and Cigarettes,» «Shinjuku» Timo von Gunten — «La Femme et le TGV,» «Mosquito» Gil Zimmerman — «How to Train Your Dragon 2,» «Puss in Boots» Marilyn Zornado — «Old - Time Film,» «Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase» Sound Peter Albrechtsen — «The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki,» «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» Christopher Assells — «John Wick: Chapter 2,» «Spectre» David Bach — «13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,» «Suicide Squad» Sylvain Bellemare — «Arrival,» «Incendies» Miriam Biderman — «Don't Call Me Son,» «The Second Mother» Charlotte Buys — «Call Me Thief,» «White Wedding» Charlie Campagna — «Blade Runner 2049,» «Nocturnal Animals» Harry Cohen — «The Fate of the Furious,» «The Hateful Eight» Mohammad Reza Delpak — «The Salesman,» «A Separation» Yann Delpuech — «The Founder,» «Saving Mr. Banks» José Luis Díaz — «Wild Tales,» «The Secret in Their Eyes» Jesse K - D.

It notes that although the average school library budget increased by $ 1,000, the increase only returned libraries to the buying power they had four years before, when the average book cost 9 percent less.

That is one of the beauties that we've had in using OER resources is that it's a lot less expensive — you're not buying a book, you're having worksheets or workbooks made for you which is a lot less expensive.

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't know if I fully agree that sampling means that people are less likely to buy a good book.

As more and more readers make the switch to the Kindle and the like, there will be even less a reason to buy a tangible book.

Now, why would a reader borrow a $.99 (in which they are allowed only ONE loan a month), when they could borrow a much higher priced book and buy my book for less than a dollar?

Judging by the results and some other less formal testing, Kindle book purchases should reflect multiple sales as each one is a separate purchase (You can't buy 3 copies of a Kindle book at once).

Says Maria Harrison, whose trade paperback of less than 200 pages was priced at $ 24.95, «Why would anyone want to buy an overpriced book from an unknown author when they can buy a wonderful book by a best - selling writer for less than ten dollars?

And the more DRM - encumbered e-books you buy, the less likely you are to dump Amazon for another e-book retailer since you are so heavily invested in Kindle books already.

For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print - edition purchases allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $ 2.99 or less.

I'm trying to amass less, weeding through my collection now, actually but there are certain books I'll buy when I see them, books I enjoy collecting.

Begging, bullying, or guilt - tripping just makes people less likely to want to share... or buy your books.

As we get closer and closer to the tipping point and less books are bought through physical places where debut authors find the bulk of their readers is going to change.

There's a belief that readers are far less likely to buy a book that has «translated by» on the cover.

It takes less than a minute for someone to buy your book and less than a couple of minutes to leave a review.

As a result, Amazon would seem to have less room for error than Apple, and while it has plenty of high - margin products to sell in the form of accessories, the rumored mix of Kindle devices and physical books doesn't seem incredibly enticing, especially when prices for Kindles are so low (that's the stuff you don't mind buying online) and only going lower.

These changes may eventually reach beyond the Top 100, too, meaning 99 - cent books would be less likely to be mentioned in Amazon's recommendation emails and in other books» also - boughts.

After all, the cut of the sale that will be passed on to your local nominated bricks - and - mortar store will be much less than if you'd actually visited their shop and bought the book in person.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

The more you charge for an ebook, the more buyers will buy our books at less than half your rate.

If I were willing to give you a ballpark guess in answer to your question of «how many book sales would a $ 10,000 investment in book promotion buy me,» I'd feel disingenuous, and I just can't compromise my integrity to give you less - than - honest response.

This can be tough — you don't really want reviews from friends and family, because they're not your ideal readers anyway; and selling books to friends and family can actually HURT sales, because it screws up your «also - boughts» section on Amazon (which will confuse Amazon and result in less visibility).

Readers spend less time and less money to buy and read a book, so while their support is invaluable, it still doesn't provide the same type of validation as acquiring an agent and editor.

Hardcover books still seem maintain a certain «value» beyond the story itself, and I think people who buy them are seeking something they can keep and display in addition the words they contain, something that can not be had with an ebook and, to a lesser extent, a paperback book.

As it stands, readers who choose to buy this book for Kindle are getting quite a bit less than the readers who order the print version but are paying almost as much.

(Libraries outside the US are certainly also welcome to inquire about buying the print books, but shipping outside the US is more expensive, and that'll make it less worth a non-US library's time, most likely.

Customers can buy your eBook without ever having to leave their couch, and they'll spend way less money doing that than they would buying physical books at the mall.

Whether you buy into Digital Book World's latest report that 85 % of writers make less than $ 1,000 a year or not, the possibility alone is a stunning one.

Some of us in society will «buy» books, by way of funding libraries, that we never read ourselves or that we choose to purchase on our own, but we understand that the town pump benefits everyone — a take on the world that is less popular in certain circles, but only underscores our value to society.

They couldn't care less how many books are sold; they care only how many authors they can enlist to buy over-priced «packages» of services.

For now, Amazon has decided to carry less Hachette inventory than usual, meaning if you want to buy one of their books, Amazon may have to order it from Hachette, and then deliver it to you.

Worry less about your personal opinion and more about how your target audience buys and consumes books.

I stopped in to speak to them about selling my book as a local author, but of course, the manager was not interested if he couldn't sell my book for $ 3, less than the price that I buy my own books for.

This week, after thanking their patrons The Ten - Year Turnaround, Hypercage, and Sell More Books with Less Social Media, the publishing powerhouses talked tips on working with experts, activating your readers, and getting your also - boughts working for you.

It makes sense since book lovers are more inclined to buy or ask for a dedicated e-reader over a multifunction device like a tablet PC which is less suitable for long term reading.

Many probably feel that they «did» Shakespeare to death during their school years and can think of few things less appealing than reading a book about him on their own time - let alone paying good money to buy it!

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.