Sentences with phrase «focused on the bookstore»

«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-...]

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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.

Through a strategic combination of print ads in two publishing - related periodicals, a gallery display on BookExpo America, and a customized sales kit, our Retail Focus Service helps authors like you promote their work to bookstores across the country!

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.