Sentences with phrase «chain bookstores»

The majority of their purchases take place in chain bookstores (28 %) or online (25 %), with minimal purchases taking place in traditional bookstores (6 %).

Good luck if your objective is to have your book in a major chain bookstore.

Printed books, including retail shelving space, are disappearing at an alarming rate, as are big chain bookstores.

While large chain bookstores are going under at an alarming rate, there has been a surge of small, independent, and specialist bookstores.

You need different sales pitches for independent vs chain bookstores because their needs are different.

Both indie and chain bookstores also expect your book to attract readers to their stores.

Why wouldn't an author want to be available in a huge chain bookstore?

With chain bookstores ever - dwindling, it's a great time to consider marketing your book to an independent bookstore.

There's just something about chain bookstores that suits me.

Independent and chain bookstores alike have got to do more to embrace self - published authors if they want to keep these consumers.

Your success at local stores can be used as leverage to approach the regional and state chain bookstores.

Their books are widely available online, in chain bookstores, and independent bookstores.

Instead, two major chain bookstores were guarded by police men who could have possibly been better used elsewhere.

With the rise of online book selling and of ebooks, large, traditional publishing houses and big chain bookstores have been struggling to survive.

Considering how bookstores, and we are talking the large chain bookstores, order their books, it is a very safe bet that the answer is the latter option.

When it comes to bookstore expectations, independent vs chain bookstores are not that different.

Not just in airports but in every major chain bookstore as well as like grocery and drug stores that also carry whatever is in the NYT list.»

Only start querying when you'd be comfortable with your manuscript appearing as - is (and being sold) between covers on major chain bookstore shelf.

The majority of book sales are happening through online retailers, followed closely behind by major chain bookstores like Barnes and Noble (which has a website and has an agreement through BookBaby to stock self - published titles on its website).

The last remaining chain bookstore in Washington D.C. is closing, meaning — at least in one American city — the independent bookstores have won.

The problem is that once a customer buys his device, he's locked into affiliation with whoever he bought it from — so if he bought it from chain bookstore W H Smith, Kobo's main partner in the UK so far, that's where the affiliate fee would go from any e-books the indie stores sold.

It is a curious response, particularly in the context of several recent large chain bookstore sales and bankruptcies in Europe — France's Chapitre and Weltbild's bankruptcy filing in Germany being the most recent and troubling — which suggests European stores are struggling having a difficult time selling enough of their own books.

Bookscan compiles sales data from various sources — primarily chain bookstores — and tracks around 75 % of book sales for most titles.

Chain bookstores tend to be homogenized and they all tend to look alike when you walk inside your favorite Barnes and Noble, Chapters / Indigo or WH Smith.

The e-commerce behemoth that put chain bookstores out of business has seemingly ripped a page from their playbook with the opening of its first physical shop, in Seattle.

Reisman has conquered tough competition and tough markets to emerge the sole winner of Canada's chain bookstore wars.

By Edward Nawotka In our lead article today, Liz Bury writes about the launch of Mills & Boon India, prompted in part by the widespread use of English, globalized communications and the growth of India's middle - class, which likes to shop in the new chain bookstores and supermarket - style outlets in India's metro centers and their newly - built shopping malls.

That means Amazon pays far less in taxes than both independent booksellers and retail chain bookstores that are based in the UK, a fact that has left many citizens and businesspeople alike wondering why their government allows it to continue.

I think we will always have brick - and - mortar bookstores in some form or fashion, but it's clear that the heyday of the big - box chain bookstore is just about over.

What will disappear, again, fairly quickly, are the hundreds of thousands of tons of disposable books that currently populate chain bookstores around the world.

It's a strange paradox that everyone bemoaned the death of mom - and - pop bookstores under the competition from Barnes and Noble, Borders, Books - A-Million, and even Walmart, and yet that same sentiment applies to the loss of many of the major - name chain bookstores in a post-Amazon world.

«Approximately sixty to seventy - five percent of the content of most chain bookstores leans toward non-fiction rather than fiction,» explains Dawn Frederick, literary agent and owner of Red Sofa Literary.

We don't know if the reason trade paper sales have gone down (which Nowell reports) because most people don't like the format or because the number of retail outlets carrying trade paper books has gone down (witness the loss of many chain bookstore locations, where most trade papers were sold) or because given a choice between trade paper and ebook, the average reader will choose ebook.

Chain bookstores do not regularly carry self - published books - not out of disrespect but because with the volume of self - published books out there it's just not realistic.

To start with, locally owned bookstores, and even chain bookstores until a few years ago when corporate took away much of the power local managers had to plan events, held summer reading camps.

You might remember that the UK's chief chain bookstore had started stocking Kindles in October 2012, according to my colleagues at The Bookseller (paywall on this one) ironically with the slogan, «There are two sides to every story.»

In professional publishing circles — and that includes chain bookstore buyers, book reviewers, and other people you are likely soliciting for blurbs, reviews, or purchases — this is common knowledge and widespread.

But the soulless chain bookstore deserves your dollars, too.

After drawing a lot of attention back when it was first announced by Viz Media, volumes one and two of Pokemon Black & White have hit comic store shelves (they were in most big chain bookstores a couple weeks back).