Sentences with phrase «for small booksellers»

«I don't think anyone's done anything like this before, though it's close in terms of what Google did for small booksellers when they announced last summer that they'd allow digital sales through just about any small bookseller's site.»

Agency pricing, in which publishers set prices and booksellers take a fixed commission, promised to make it easier for small booksellers to compete by removing the threat of predatory pricing by retailing behemoths like Amazon.

Depending on how this progresses, it might lead to further frustrating delays for smaller booksellers anxious to get started.

Not exact matches

Apparently, enough small booksellers are convinced that Weltbild and Thalia have hit on the formula for success; Nordbuch, an independent bookselling syndicate in northern Germany, recently announced that it is developing a multichannel concept for interested stores to be presented at the Leipzig Book Fair in March.

«It's more functionally efficient for Amazon, and they have no added costs but get 30 % share of the books the smaller booksellers sell,» he noted.

For independent authors and small presses, paying attention to these details can make a favorable impression on potential customers, especially those inside the trade — booksellers, librarians, and others who are intimately familiar with book publishing standards.

Some of the awards they have won include, «Publishers Weekly Bookseller of the Year, Lucille Pannell award for book selling excellence, Connecticut magazine Best Bookstore, Connecticut retailers Award for Community Commitment, Advocate's Best Bookstore, and the New Haven Business Small Business Award», just to name a few.

As a bookseller, I watched every day as voracious readers came into the store, stood in front of the small section of shelves where they most enjoyed to read, and were dismayed that there was nothing there for them.

«The international e-book market is undergoing the same kinds of changes that we've experienced here in the U.S., with thousands of small and mid-sized independent booksellers looking for ways to compete with major brands online.

It's just too small of a market for a publishing house to be interested in, and justifiably; once you involve all those layers, and the booksellers» cut, it adds up.

A bookseller discount might be set at 35 % for a small independent bookshop, up to 60 %, 70 % or more for a big chain, supermarket or online retailer.

Now let's take a look at how much three independent booksellers are charging for the same e-book, via their partnership with the Google eBookstore: Alibris will sell it to you for $ 18.17, Powell's would like $ 24.81, and Joseph Fox Bookshop (a small indie in my hometown of Philadelphia) wants $ 27.95.

Any authors (or even indie publishers or booksellers), for example, who have achieved some small measure of success who may be willing to participate in Read Tuesday could help to promote the event as a whole.

As a former bookseller himself, he celebrated the launch of This Side of the River by giving 6 bookstores $ 250 grants for whatever improvements they needed... a helping hand on a little smaller scale than James Patterson, but doing his part!

Last month, Waterstones m.d James Daunt told The Bookseller the retailer was preparing for a busy period in the area, with a small internal development team focusing on improving the chain's loyalty card.

But longer term, booksellers might not cheer this greater role for publishers, especially if it means smaller margins and less influence.

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