Sentences with phrase «fewer boxes of books»

Your reward will come through fewer boxes of books stored in your home, more money in your e-book retailer accounts, and messages from readers thanking you for helping them.

Almost everyone has a few boxes of books stashed away in the house somewhere.

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

Not exact matches

(My sister laughed pretty hard as she was unpacking those boxes — let's see, a few paperback books, electronics, a razor, box of Kleenex, baby toys, two diapers, a magazine, a power cord, bag of tortilla chips, a pillow, what else can we cram in here?)

She had a few cook books and a box of recipes that she had collected but these were mainly for desserts and baked goods.

So, a little box of books arrived here a few weeks ago.

Aidan receives insight from many notables — Princess Beatrice of York, Arctic explorer Ann Bancroft and novelist John Irving, to name a few — but Aidan's «tips» sprinkled in boxes throughout the book are no less insightful and very entertaining.

I have a few (dozen) more boxes of books to find room for, perhaps a shelf more to build (we put this room together entirely from things we already had or found), and there is the one major design flaw in need of a fix.

My boss also gave me a few PR and communications books (see box) right at the beginning — definitely worth reading when you start out in this kind of job without much previous experience!

A few books and one of Honey's cigar boxes wrapped in scrapbook paper is a simple way to add more pattern and color to your fall decor.

I can't imagine fans of the book will be too disappointed — enough box office takings to buy the moon disproves any uncertainty along those lines — though the few Muggles out there who never got what all the fuss is about aren't about to experience any epiphanies.

Adaptations of Superheroes, Comic Books, and Graphic Novels have been driving the movie theatre box office for a few years now.

Remember what it was like when The Cuckoo's Calling had only sold a few boxes and think about those of us who are stuck there, because we can't wave a wand and turn our books into overnight bestsellers merely by saying the magic word.

But more importantly, bundles usually record most of their sales in the first few weeks (as do most single books); box sets are more about aggregating existing readerships than finding new ones, unless you hit a list or special ranking or get exceptional PR — which all bring immediate results anyway.

But the gathering pace of change is such that the observer must be aware that there are fewer paper proofs in the office (on some desks anyway), fewer reference books or box folders on shelves and desks, and many more gadgets lying about in their place.

It is amazing to come across people who set up things like neighborhood book exchanges, book clubs, and drop / pickup boxes and realize how many books these voracious readers consume and how few of them ever read an ebook.

One of the pictures shows a boxed set, which is something you can make when you have a few related books.

You might get your Book in front of a few more people by promoting it online, but to really make your Book a success, you've got to think outside the box.

This textbook rental service prides itself in being «the student's marketplace (their tagline) as well as one of the few book rental sites that lets you track or return your order in a convenient manner via a box that you fill in on the homepage.

Unfortunately, there are very few hotels or resorts around Labuan Bajo, but you can use the search box below to find what is available while comparing rates from dozens of online booking sites.

Until now, however, the book has spent most of its existence in a Swiss safe deposit box, and very few people have actually seen it.

So I yanked the box out of the holder it was in and awkwardly balanced it in its box on top of my small cart (this chalkboard is HUGE by the way, four feet across and 3 feet tall), steering past the books and into the backsides of a few unsuspecting shoppers to get to the checkout stand.

The electricity meter is on the wall behind the shelves, so the owner bought lots of old books at a junk shop, cut them in half, and glued them into place where the shelving is only a few centimeters deep because the box is jutting out!