Sentences with phrase «first big bookstore»

Kobo has been selling eBooks in Spanish since 2011 and this marks the first big bookstore partnership.

Not exact matches

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).

Back when my first novel was published in 1997, authors went on book tours, scheduling talks and signings at bookstores, groceries, and even stopping at drugstores and big - box retail stores to sign books on the shelves.

This is the first time that Amazon has added another bookstore to their Kindle line of e-readers and this is a very big deal.

Now for big name authors, their books» Amazon ratings may not matter so much — they have such a reputation and presence in bookstores that the average Joe will just buy the book off the shelve without doing research first.

For our first season we'll be hitting big ticket topics such as a commentary on the current publishing landscape, how to optimize your book metadata for sales, how to sell your book to indie bookstores, ebooks vs. print books, and how much it costs to self - publish.

I have other writer friends (for instance, Michael J. Sullivan and Hugh Howey) who have achieved super-success first by self - publishing, but who then shrewdly parlayed their fame into select, carefully tailored deals with big publishing houses, which allowed them to expand their fan base to include bookstore customers, while still retaining most of their other rights.

Barnes and Noble may have the world's second biggest online bookstore, but it isn't the first one most of us think of when we want to buy a book online.

Here's why I think it would work: First, there's already a big shake - up in college bookstores compared when I went.

Additionally, the manga market suffered its third bad year as sales were down 20 % in first half of this year thanks to bookstores having a bigger impact overall on the category.

I don't think so, because physical bookstores are not that big a market for most self - pubbed authors in the first place — or even for second - string / midlist authors at major houses (I'm married to one of those, and used to be one).

Amazon's first brick - and - mortar store: One big ad for the Amazon app — Contrary to the piece in the Seattle Times I posted yesterday on the new Amazon Bookstore, Ars Technica's coverage suggests that this isn't just a bookstore, as Amazon apparently wants its customers to believe.

With Amazon Books, Jeff Bezos Is Solving Digital Retail's Biggest Design Flaw — Remember when the first brick - and - mortar Amazon bookstore opened and people were kind of flummoxed at the eclectic selection of books and the way all the books faced outward?

The first time I realized I could go online and find the exact book I wanted, in hardcover, for nearly half of what the big bookstores were charging — well, I was flabbergasted.

Describing it sounds curiously like recounting an odd dream: «First, there was this big stone corridor and a cavern full of houses, and I went inside one and it was a lava bookstore full of demons and the lava sucked at my feet, and there was a key on a pedestal and, and --»

In this case, the two big bonuses worth seeking out are V is for Vulnerable, the ABC book based on Icarus and illustrated by Hugh MacLeod, as well as the heavy, huge, long and delightful best - of collection of the last six years of my online writing, now in print for the first time ever, and never to be sold in a bookstore.