Sentences with phrase «drive small bookstores»

While Amazon works to corner the selling market, drive small bookstores out of business, hold publishers up for a larger percentage of sales, they remain untouched.

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Distribution through Ingram is critical to a book's mainstream success, and the only time distribution through Ingram wouldn't matter would be if your niche were so small that you were selling directly to your target audience rather than conducting a book promotion campaign to drive potential buyers to bookstores.)

They forgot about how the big box stores moved into the market in the 1980s and 1990s and drove most of the smaller, locally owned bookstores out of business.

They are moving into small storefronts — sort of like what they did before they were driven out of business by the big box bookstores like BN and Borders.

On the other hand, the large chains were not as close to their customers as the small bookstores which they were driving out of business.

Although I doubt I'll ever be in need of a publicist, today's post reminded me of an aspect of self - publishing and small presses that used to drive me nuts when I had my bookstore: the lack of research, about my community in general and my store in particular, before approaching me about carrying a book.