Sentences with phrase «by going to bookstores»

Also, it's wonderful to have an author who's willing to spend some of their own time marketing the book by going to bookstores and introducing themselves or surfing the Internet for websites where we could promote the book.

Even if you live in an area that doesn't offer childbirth classes - you can greatly benefit by going to a bookstore (online or otherwise) or even to the library and reading books on the subject.

Not exact matches

Go to the library and bookstores and browse by subject area.

Lorello had been working in the bookstore, operated by the Friends group, as recently as Wednesday but was let go upon a directive that came from the highest levels of the DMNA, said the person briefed on the decision, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for any of the parties involved.

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Hit the library, stop by the independent bookstore on the corner, toss a few items in your AmazonSmile shopping cart (when you do, a portion of your purchase can go directly to Facing History), or start downloading to your e-reader.

One benefit of using the Expanded Distribution option at CreateSpace is that the book then goes into Baker & Taylor (a distributor used by many, many bookstores), and from Baker & Taylor to places such as Powell's, Mysterious Galaxy Books, B&N, etc..

A local bookstore is best by far: go in (or call) and ask them to pre-order you a copy of SHAMAN RISES.

Go to a bookstore and you'll see thousands of titles by authors who followed directions, defined their audiences, understood the value proposition of their books, and found a way to convince a traditi9onal publisher that their work was worthy of investment.

I too could go the e-book route but 1) like AJ I prefer the printed book; and 2) I refuse to contribute to the decline of bookstores by e-books.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

On a trip through Wales more than a decade ago, the border town of Hay - on - Wye — where some 30 used bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon).

And more returns by those bookstores aren't going to help publishers either.

That «80 % +» holds whether one measures by titles released, by face value, by copies sold, by compensation paid to authors, by shelf - inches devoted in general bookstores, by sales rankings at Amazon... indeed, by any numeric measure of which I am aware, and my «day job» involves being directly and immediately aware of what's going on in publishing.

A QUESTION OF IDENTITY by Susan Hill / MR. PENUMBRA»S 24 - HOUR BOOKSTORE by Robin Sloan / MISSION TO PARIS by Alan Furst / GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn / BEWARE THIS BOY by Maureen Jennings

However, those authors who swear by this «going wide» strategy tend to be authors who are putting out five or more books a year — often fairly short books — and are able to use these frequent launches and the pre-order system to keep their books visible in all bookstores.

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.

The steps were outlined in a post by GalleyCat that told users how to go about supporting indie authors and their locally owned bookstores at the same time.

Book prices (set by tradpub houses) in brick and mortar bookstores are going to kill the tradpublishing industry more than Amazon or any of its» equivalents ever will.

You can find the right comic book publisher for your needs by looking online, by going to conventions and expos or by browsing through comic books at a bookstore.

All the average reader knew was that a book by one of the authors they liked to read was no longer easily found for purchase and they'd have to either go to the library or to the second hand bookstore for a copy.

If you're unfamiliar with the basic concept of page layout and design, go to your local bookstore or library and pick up a few books on graphic design or publication design (these books are usually designed by graphic designers, and are usually quite beautifully laid out).

The two biggest pbook printing companies are CreateSpace (owned by Amazon) and LightingSource (owned by Ingram, the biggest distributor to bookstores in the US) Lulu is good too, but beware their more expensive packages — those have gone over to the Author Solutions dark side, too

Publishers are scared and trying to cause a panic among booksellers and readers by saying these latest figures mean bookstores are going to suddenly disappear.

After the dismaying discovery that CreateSpace doesn't distribute everywhere, and that IngramSpark offers a whole ton of things that CreateSpace doesn't (we'll go into this in a different article), I learned that small bookstores and retailers often won't order inventory from CreateSpace and will only order your book if it's on IngramSpark, and oh, by the way — that you can be listed in BOTH places, I realized I needed to have my books on IngramSpark as well as CreateSpace.

So Eli did the manly thing and went and bought about a hundred bucks worth of tools, observed that the toilet not only didn't flush down, but also needed a complete gut replacement, went back to the hardware store, bought a complete set of innards, stopped by the bookstore to get a book on useful expletives for when nothing works and took the damn thing apart getting the blue stuff all over himself and the floor, that book came in useful, and we learned that contrary to rumor brass screws used in toilets do corrode so you have to go back to the hardware store and get WD - 40 and when that doesn't work you go back yet again and get a nut cracker (nononono, not that kind).