Sentences with phrase «chain order books»

Most independent bookstores and many chains order their books directly from wholesalers such as Baker & Taylor or Ingram.

Not exact matches

Building a global - scale order book was the first phase of AGT's expansion; the second is now focused on vertical integration, buying key infrastructure up and down the supply chain.

The casual - dining chain, which operates 550 locations across the U.S. and Canada, says online orders booked via redrobin.com will let diners place orders with a specific pick - up time, prepay for those orders, and also feature customization of the burgers in a way that mirrors the experience in the brick - and - mortar restaurant locations.

JAB will almost certainly want to invest more in the digital experience at a time when restaurant chains are increasingly focusing on this trend to book more orders from time - strapped shoppers.

In cases where the currency pairing has not been offered and is therefore unavailable in the order book, the network will find the best possible rate by making a «chain of conversions.»

Some firms can fend off acquisitions because families, universities or religious orders own them, but even they are affected by the workings of the «complex,» especially by the difficulties of selling through chain stores, which have little interest in books that, however high their quality, appeal to a limited audience.

Bookstore chain Barnes & Noble has cut back orders of new Simon & Schuster titles — to «almost nothing» for some books — during an ongoing dispute over financial terms.

So bookstores could order your book if they wanted... if the book looked good... if they knew about it... and if the indie publisher had set the price correctly to allow for enough discounts through the chain of custody for a book.

Bottom line, though, when the industry fell upon hard times, and bookstores couldn't sell even 25 % of the books they ordered, publishers demanded their money, and chains like Borders went out of business, and Barnes and Noble and indie bookstores faltered.

The ISBN (International Sales Book Number) is a 13 - digit product number used by bookstores, publishers, libraries, internet retailers and other supply - chain participants for ordering, listings, sales records, and stock control.

In order to keep its stock of published books in the largest physical bookstore chain in the U.S., Amazon is going to have to work with Barnes and Noble and put aside any thoughts of competition.

I also had a paranoid sense of shadowy, Olympian forces weighing in from farther above; I've been told that the most powerful figures in the current literary world, the buyers for the major national bookstore chains, have been known to offer to increase their orders for a book if its cover is changed.»

This move will go a long way towards curing the ill that many experts seem to believe led to the death of the Borders chain of bookstores, namely, browsing in the brick - and - mortar location then heading home empty handed in order to purchase the book online, either in print or digital editions.

To introduce you as a new author, eg if you get picked up by a major book chain as Author of the Month, the publisher may sell your books to that chain at a high discount in return for a large order, and guaranteed publicity and shelf space.

And anyone can get their book into the order system at all the major bookstore chains.

B&N and Borders were successful in those early days because they could order more of a book due to the chain nature of the business.

An ISBN is a must - have for all books made available to the public as it is what publishers, booksellers, internet retailers, libraries, wholesalers, distributors and other such supply chain participants use as an identifier for a particular book when they are listing, ordering, recording sales, taking stock and for other related purposes.

Did you know that books often used to be chained to shelves in libraries, in order to prevent borrowing stealing?

Or when the entire chain notices it's been special ordering books by the dozen — books that it doesn't yet stock?

The next book in that deal wasn't just dumped on the stands, it missed its release month and was dumped IN THE WRONG RELEASE MONTH, so the big chains thought it had been canceled and they, in turn canceled readers» orders for it.

In addition to larger «big - box» trade outlets and retail stores, Bookmasters» special sales team can present your titles to non-traditional book sales and distribution channels, including craft stores, gourmet food stores, museums, hospitals, gift shops, specialty retail chains, mail order catalogs, specialty wholesalers, online resellers, bulk sales for promotional use, and other genre - specific sales outlets.

In other words, Bookmasters promotes our publishers» titles to non-traditional book distribution channels such as craft stores, gourmet food stores, museums, hospitals, gift shops, specialty retail chains, mail order catalogs, specialty wholesalers, online resellers, bulk sales for promotional use, and other genre - specific sales outlets.

Even if you can't convince your publisher to work with the distributor, at least then you can direct your readers to particular chains or stores that can order your books.

It is advantageous to place your books where books can be found; even large bookstore chains shy away from ordering small publisher books, and returnability status is an issue for margin - focused retailers.

So, with print sales at independent ABA bookstores up a tiny bit, but book sales at all major US bookstore chains and mass merchandisers down by almost an order of magnitude more, then why does Nielsen Bookscan's «Retail & Club» sector still report that US print book sales are up 5 % overall?

I had previously worked as a roofer, as a short - order cook at franchise restaurant chain, and as a laborer at a book bindery.

We will then work to support withdrawals on the chain with less cumulative difficulty if it ends up having a significant amount of hash power, exchange volume, or economic value, and possibly even open new order books.