«We're completely
focused on this bookstore,» Jennifer Cast, vice president of Amazon Books, told The Seattle Times.
Less worrying about ourselves, less
focus on the bookstore as our customer, and more about bringing writers and readers together.
Michael Tamblyn — CEO of Kobo told me on a few occasions that
they focus on bookstores because their product seems more organic and wholesome, instead of being sold at a big box retailer, where technology is often cold and impersonal.
Are
you focusing on bookstores, chains, supermarkets, airport stores, libraries, gift stores, online retailers?
Cast told the Seattle Times: «We're completely
focused on this bookstore.
Barnes and Noble wants to
focus on bookstore development and the company has hired a new VP of stores to make this happen.
But then, their American partner is Random House, so they're
focused on the bookstore market and book readers.
But then, their American partner is Random House, so they're
focused on the bookstore market and book -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
in the mornings, we
focus on reading and drawing (usually involves a trip to the library,
bookstore, or coffee shop).
Mary ran the operation out of the back of a Bloomsbury
bookstore and grew her connections organically by
focusing on high - quality daters and «thinking people.»
It provides hundreds of solutions and practical strategies through its
bookstore and free online newsletter «Values in Action,» as well as through seminars and keynote addresses
on a wide variety of topics and different types of
focus for every grade level.
Competition from online stores like Amazon, economic trends and distribution challenges from indie authors has
bookstore owners
focused on their own survival.
The second generation platform launched in early 2013 and
focuses on getting indie authors to submit their books for inclusion into the Nook
bookstore.
Most self - published authors ignore the
bookstore entirely and
focus on their niche market online.
While that
focus is needed
on the world's largest online
bookstore, it's important not to prematurely limit your options.
Internet gives you a worldwide reach and you can solely
focus on promoting a
bookstore, instead of negotiating contracts, dealing with conversion issues, employing people and printing office stationery.
A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing
focus on air quality; and the bad
bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital distribution.
In fact, more and more authors are
focusing their sales and marketing efforts
on their eBook with the printed book being an «extra» available for print book readers and
bookstores through CreateSpace and / or Lightning Source.
If you're willing to
focus on online
bookstores and accept that your book probably won't be carried in brick and mortar
bookstores (though customers will still be able to order it), then you can set the discount to 20 %, rather than 55 %.
Publishers are
focused on selling as many copies as possible right after the book goes
on sale to avoid returns from
bookstores.
Aaron Shepard's Aiming at Amazon: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Your Books with Print
on Demand and Online Book Marketing
on Amazon.com describes one way to self - publish if your goal is to
focus on online
bookstores.
If a
bookstore turns down an event this month, be prepared with another idea that
focuses on what you can do for the naysayer.
It might be a good idea for
bookstores and libraries to
focus a little more
on the creation side to go with the consumption.
Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and of Small Press Distribution, suggests that the difference between Amazon and brick - and - mortar
bookstores is most evident in how they market books: «I think even people at Amazon would say that it's essentially a widget seller that happens to have begun by
focusing on books.
«In all the punditry, there's a lot of analysis of the book industry and it's all
focused on gross dollars: how much are
bookstores making, how much are publishers making?
The Nook line of tablets and e-readers will both be available alongside a new online
bookstore will
focus on newspapers, magazines, and ebooks with a distinctively English flavor.
We will begin staffing a team of editors and marketers, and ensure we are expanding the English language audience for our authors, with a
focus on our English language
bookstores on amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.it and amazon.es,» Belle stated.
Outlook «As we look ahead to fiscal 2017 and beyond, we are
focusing on executing a number of initiatives to grow
bookstore and online sales, reduce Retail and NOOK expenses and grow our Membership base,» said Ron Boire, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc..
When stores like the Borders chain collapsed or when B&N's sales figures plummet, concerns are raised about what ebooks and online retailing is doing to
bookstores, but that discussion largely
focuses on the major players, and less
on the mom - and - pop physical
bookstores.
Much of their debate
focused on what role
bookstores will play for consumers.
Focus on an independent
bookstore, and support it.
The news stories
focused on the success secrets of super authors, the decline of indie
bookstores in the U.K., how the Tragedy of the Commons theory applies to self - publishing, Facebook's Contentgeddon, and the future of disruption in the publishing industry.
John Shableski works for Diamond Book Distributors as a sales manager with a
focus on the independent
bookstore market and
on public and school libraries.
Publishers are
focused on selling as many as possible right after the book goes
on sale to avoid returns from
bookstores.
Generally, I don't recommend trying to get into
bookstores or
focusing on live events such as book signings, but it's important to address WHY I don't recommend them, since most first time authors will persist in achieving visual markers that match the «writer fantasies» they grew up with.
, where ebook sales have stagnated, where
bookstores are
on the verge of extinction, where wholesalers and distributors are disappearing all the time, and where the major publishers
focus on celebrities alone, selling books is no longer the way to go.
If your marketing goal it is to have as many people as possible read your work, you may be better off first
focusing your efforts elsewhere — not just
on your local
bookstore.
The 77 - year - old author and
bookstore owner, who's best known for epics like Lonesome Dove, hasn't published a novel since 2009's Rhino Ranch; he's been
focusing on his memoirs and an epic biography of Custer.
Traditional publishing was too
focused on getting their print books into the
bookstores, whereas digital publishing sites are
focused on the reader,
on getting the reader to click the buy button.»
Amazon is
focusing on India and has populated their Kindle
bookstore with thousands of e-books in five regional languages.
We
focus on tightly targeted specialty markets more than general interest
bookstores and libraries.
Yet according to librarians and
bookstore owners, traditional labeling defines thrillers as fast - paced, realistic books that
focus on plot more than character -LSB-...]
Despite its famous status within the company, the 5th Avenue location had transformed in recent years into one of B&N's college
bookstores,
focusing primarily
on textbooks and trade books.
What they should be
focusing on is their survival as a
bookstore first.
Sourcebooks has announced that they are going to be releasing a new online digital
bookstore to
focus on romance titles.
Part of the success of Penguin's digital strategy is not only selling cut and dry ebooks through various
bookstores but is
focusing on enhanced ebooks.
They've been so
focused on getting consignment distributors called
bookstores to rack their books they've never really
focused on selling to readers.
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But Joanna's argument was that many traditional outlets are still
focused heavily
on bookstores whereas most books are being consumed digitally.
Google is
focused on offering their ebooks through the cloud using web browsers instead of downloads like other stores, and Google is working with a long list of Independent
Bookstores.