Sentences with phrase «from bookstore owner»

But then we got some surprising news from the bookstore owner's wife.

But I was already getting a dirty look from the bookstore owner's wife.

I pulled out my phone to take a photo and saw a text from a bookstore owner back home, inviting me to read an essay at an event.

Not exact matches

The current owner, who opened the bookstores in the mid 1970s with help from her sister, has built up an inventory worth $ 83,000 and a loyal customer base.

● SIGNATURE MOVE, by Jennifer Reeder, finds common ground between a closeted Muslim lawyer (Fawzia Mirza) and a free - spirited Chicana bookstore owner in this heartfelt and funny film about how modern romance can arise from a path steeped in tradition.

Even the wonderful Alfre Woodard, playing a bookstore owner and neighbor to the Gordons, can't save the cheesy integration of research from occult books and a resolution that seems like a halfhearted homage to Father Karras» sacrifice in «The Exorcist.»

Linda (voice by Leslie Mann), his owner, is a timid, bespectacled bookstore owner who has never journeyed far from the snowy community where she lives.

One of the reasons bookstore owners may choose not to buy and sell POD self - published books has to do with the pressure they are feeling from online sellers.

For the first time ever, bookstores, other retailers, authors, bloggers and other website owners will be able to offer Kindle books from their own sites, let their readers start enjoying the full text of these books instantly, and earn referral fees through the Amazon Associates Program for sales made through their sites.

The Benjamin Franklin Book Awards are administered by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) with help from over 150 publishing professionals, including librarians, bookstore owners, reviewers, designers and editors.

I read something the other day from Jane Friedman's blog that an indie bookstore owner was asking self - publishers to boycott using Amazon, and work harder to keep places like his in business.

Competition from online stores like Amazon, economic trends and distribution challenges from indie authors has bookstore owners focused on their own survival.

Even with the recent news of a local citizen in the US who launched a Kickstarter campaign to purchase her town's independent bookstore from its retiring owners, a bookstore closing due to the age and employment status of its proprietor isn't attention grabbing.

In theory, bookstore owners and buyers of all shapes and sizes should be coming to this show to order books from publishers for the upcoming season.

When I got home that night, I received a message on Facebook from a local bookstore owner who wanted to carry Don't Eat Your Boogers in her store.

In addition, compared with the general public, owners of e-reading devices who use the internet are also more likely to get recommendations from online bookstores or other websites (56 % vs. 34 %).

• Overall, owners of e-reading devices are more likely than all Americans 16 and older to get book recommendations from people they knew (81 % vs. 64 %) and bookstore staff (31 % vs. 23 %).

REDgroup, which owns 260 bookstores in Australia and New Zealand, succumbed to slow growth, internet competition and the emerging threat from e-books in February, when owners Pacific Equity Partners called in administrators Ferrier Hodgson.

The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards ™ are administered by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) with help from over 150 publishing professionals, including librarians, bookstore owners, reviewers, designers and editors.

While bookstores are usually happy to fulfill specific customer orders, most bookstore owners refuse to buy books from Amazon, Amazon imprints, or Amazon affiliates such as Createspace.

Before your book can be displayed on bookstore shelves, your book's title has to «sell» the bookstore owners, managers, and category buyers who will order your book from the publisher in order to display it in their stores.

The New Yorker's «Book Bench» blog points out that Assassin of Secrets lifts so many passages from other sources that the book is more of a «pastiche or collage, rather than a «novel,» as we properly understand the word» and that Q.R. Markham (the pseudonym for Quentin Rowan), who is a poet and part owner of a bookstore in Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn, may have consciously perpetrated an elaborate hoax.

Not only that, eReader owners will need less help from physical bookstores to get what they want when they can procure a wireless transaction in no less than 5 minutes to get an eBook.

The awards are administered by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), with help from over 150 book publishing professionals including librarians, bookstore owners, reviewers, designers, publicity managers, and editors.

When books are bought on consignment, bookstore owners don't have to care if they order slow - sellers or outright flops because almost all unsold books can be returned to the publisher, or even be destroyed, and still generate a refund or credit from the publisher.

Kobo is running free classes for indie bookstore owners on how to profit from selling electronic books.

The iRex can also handle the ePub file format, a widely accepted industry standard, which means that owners can buy books from other online bookstores that use ePub and transfer texts onto the iRex.

Overall, owners of e-reading devices were more likely than all Americans 16 and older to get recommendations from people they knew and bookstore staff, and were also more likely to get recommendations from online bookstores or other websites than the general population.

I was talking to my used bookstore owner who happens to be the largest seller of independent / self - published books on the West Coast (I'm taking him at his word) and he basically told me that with the Kindle and with Amazon's self - publishing program, they have the power to make or break any author by including them or excluding them from their site.

Permission would have to be granted by the rights - holder to the publisher: the owner of the book does not need permission from the author to own the book, they need the permission of the publisher or publisher's agent (e.g. the bookstore).