Sentences with phrase «by a bookseller who»

Fast - forward six decades and one of the remaining posters was discovered by a bookseller who bought a box of old books (where the poster was hidden) at auction.

Authors are in the state they are in because the publishers got too comfortable relying on Amazon to fill in for the collapsed wholesale market of the 1990's, because the large North American market was dominated by booksellers who were mismanaged in the oughts, and because self - published authors used Amazon because it was easy rather than trying to branch out their business.

Not exact matches

The ordinance would have permitted any woman who felt degraded or victimized by a piece of pornographic literature or pornographic film to have a court injunction issued against the booksellers, theater owners, publishers and distributors to prevent the marketing of the offending material.

Laptops and smartphones unlocked porn's true isolating, masturbatory potential, something that a physical magazine — which had to be handled by someone who knew what you were reading, either a bookseller or a mailman — could never achieve.

In Jean Renoir's satire of the bourgeoisie, Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well - to - do bookseller, whose family decides to take in the irrepressible bum.

Only instead of portraying his plight as fate's dark joke, which would probably be a natural fit for a film that begins with the man's attempted suicide in the waters of the Seine (weighted down, no doubt, by his extremely heavy Priapic genitals), Renoir juxtaposes Boudu's infinite zest against the studied mannerisms of the genial bookseller who rescues him from the waters, Edouard Lestingois.

He describes briefly the bookseller boycott against Amazon's trade imprint headed by Larry Kirshbaum (who has since left Amazon), but he has little to say about the wide range of Amazon's other publishing activities and its growing number of imprints.

On 20 July 2009, it was acquired by US bookseller Barnes and Noble who plan to adopt the eReader format for their ebook store.

If you're a bookseller you're having a wonderful time wandering the aisles, gazing at the new season's splendid goodies, catching sight of Stephen King or the Pillsbury Doughboy or Ed Meese or Barry Manilow, being treated like royalty by the publishers who want your business.

If you bought your tolino eReader at a bookseller, who is no longer part of the tolino alliance, your customer service will be provided by another bookseller.

One such third party book review source is professional book review publications whose primary readership is mostly composed of booksellers and librarians who are looking to stock books that would be read by many.

Trade review publications are read by booksellers, librarians, and others who work inside the book industry (as opposed to consumers); two of the most well - known are Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.

While not required, by uploading these files, you're creating a more complete picture of your book and making it more discoverable and visible to the librarians, booksellers, and others who use Bowker's database.

He was initially hired by Ron Boire, who was the worst CEO the bookseller ever had.

«The disappearance of the iconic mass market edition is very disappointing to us, especially as we understand this could force a difficult situation for schools and teachers with tight budgets who can not afford the larger, higher - priced paperback edition that will remain in the market,» a Hachette representative said in the email sent to booksellers, which was obtained by Good e-Reader.

First Impressions By Charlie Lovett Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143127727 In two parallel narratives, Lovett portrays Jane Austen's friendship with a young clergyman in Hampshire in 1796 and a modern - day bookseller in Oxfordshire who begins to suspect that Austen was not the actual author of Pride and Prejudice.

Mara Livingstone - McPhail was a bookseller, reviewed books on BBC radio and organized book events in inner - city schools before being lured to London by the team who now run Chicken House Books.

Mara Livingstone - McPhail was a bookseller, reviewed books on BBC radio and organized a book events in inner - city schools before being lured to London by the team who now run Chicken House Books.

UPDATE: I was just contacted by Jeannie Hornung, spokesperson for Google, who did confirm that the affiliates program will still continue, and «booksellers will still be highlighted in the «Buy this book» section of Google Book search, supported with our affiliate program and have access to free Books APIs.»

Now, the EU is threatening to make good on its promise to government officials and booksellers alike, assuring that they will crack down on countries who intentionally undermine the tax rate that all other EU countries abide by.

Led by Orna Ross, an Irish author, and the founder of ALLi who has been named one of the top 100 most influential people in publishing by The Bookseller, the white paper, when released should be of great interest to the global publishing industry.

Nawotka is echoed by The Bookseller's chief, Philip Jones, who writes in Carry on publishing with canny caution, «how crazily fretful the sector is when it comes to the folk from Seattle.

The American Booksellers Association, who was previously reported to be unaffected by the revocation of affiliates status, has spoken up for the indie bookstores and advised them on how to contact ABA's member services for assistance if their links are deactivated.

The program, which was was supported by publishers, authors, booksellers, and individual donors, placed one million books each year with readers who may not have otherwise had access.

Unfortunately, the bookseller and publisher aren't the only ones who will be impacted by this dispute.

We do this through the machinations of our amazing publicity and online marketing staffs, and through the store - by - store, title - by - title pre-publication hand selling by the head of our marketing department, who focuses his efforts primarily — although not exclusively — on the independent booksellers.

Len Edgerly Interviews Neil Strandberg, Director of Member Technology, American Booksellers Association By LEN EDGERLY, Contributing Editor The general manager of Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, remembers two women who came into the store and said, «We'd like to talk to your children's specialist about what books we should buy for our granddaughter for -LSB-...]

If you're being published by a traditional publishing house, there are many people — from editors to sales representatives to marketing managers to publicists to even book buyers at the major booksellers — who will weigh in on the consumer appeal and effectiveness of your book's title.

For those booksellers who decide to stick with ebooks, there are now plenty of white label ebookstore suppliers who can step in to fill the gap left by Google.

Below, John Green, accepting the Indie Prize given by the American Booksellers Association to writers who best represent commitment to independent book stores, calls «bullshit» to the concept that authors like him, who speak directly to their readers via social media, don't «need the value - sucking middlemen of bookstores and publishers and in the future... no one will stand between author and reader except possibly an e-commerce site that takes just a tiny little percentage of each transaction.»

Details / Advantages: «The judging is unique in that after the initial entries have been narrowed down to a group of finalists in each category by the magazine's team of editors, the finalists are shipped to a hand - selected group of booksellers and librarians who determine the winners.

Now, certainly I know that many booksellers have an axe to grind with Amazon as a retailer, an axe already honed by every Mom & Pop grocer who saw a Walmart move into town.

Details / Advantages: Lots of categories, and «The judging is unique in that after the initial entries have been narrowed down to a group of finalists in each category by the magazine's team of editors, the finalists are shipped to a hand - selected group of booksellers and librarians who determine the winners.

Who has thanked over 1500 booksellers by name in the acknowledgements of my novels?

In 2014 it was joined by wholesaler Libri who brought with him 1,500 independent booksellers, in 2015 regional book chains Mayersche and Osiander began selling Tolino devices and e-books.

He hates being held up as an example of an author who doesn't need support from publishers, editors, librarians and booksellers and ends by saying,» We built... the book business, the idea - sharing, consciousness - expanding business together... and we're going to keep building this together.»

For booksellers, they can earn extra commission from their customers who buy the eBook in the participated store or the one bought from Kindle devices sold by the store.

And it's not just publishers, as booksellers hit hard over the past decade by Amazon's price - cutting ways have gone so far as to organize a boycott of authors who go with Amazon's imprints.

The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing by Mayra Calvani and Anne K. Edwards This book was written not only with the aspiring reviewer in mind, but also for the established reviewer who needs a bit of refreshing and also for anybody — be they author, publisher, reader, bookseller, librarian or publicist — who wants to become more informed about the value, purpose and effectiveness of reviews.

Putting in the title at booksellers also produced album / band results followed by the five other authors who had done the same thing before that writer did.

At this year's FutureBook conference from The Bookseller in London, optimism Friday (December 1) during the audiobook sessions — with speaker after speaker predicting much more growth over the next decade — was tempered by Kobo «s chief executive Michael Tamblyn who introduced a note of caution.

No fool she, Friedman, who with Harry Bingham mounted a fine author survey led by The Bookseller earlier this year, goes right to those guys at the zoo — «It's the old parable about blind men trying to describe an elephant» (drink)-- and she then points, as must we all, to that other large animal in the room:

We have since spoken to other indie booksellers across the country who are feeling the same way (backed up by articles in the Christian Science Monitor and Publisher's Weekly that note increasing interest from indie bookstores in self - published titles).

The lawsuit, posted online by the Huffington Post, was filed last Friday by the New York bookseller Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, the South Carolina - based Fiction Addiction and New York City's Posman Books «on behalf of themselves and... all independent brick - and - mortar bookstores who sell ebooks».

«Currently, none of the big six has entered into any agreements with any independent brick - and - mortar bookstores or independent collectives to sell their ebooks,» say the booksellers, and «consequently, the vast majority of readers who wish to read an ebook published by the big six will purchase the ebook from Amazon.»

The endearing book shop remains the focus of curious attention by tourists and fans of the film who may hope to see its stars Hugh Grant — who played the bumbling bookseller — and Julia Roberts as the film - star browsing the shelves.

Sarah remembers the filming taking place and a visit to the shop by the film stars Roberts, who played a Hollywood movie star and Grant who played William Thacker the stammering bookseller.