Not exact matches
Does anyone else ever
go into a
bookstore and feel overcome with sadness because there are simply too many good books and so little time
to be alive?
A friend of mine
went into a local Christian
bookstore to find a book that might be helpful for him as a husband.
So, the next day we
went to Kiel, checked out the German language cookbooks in the Borders - like
bookstore in the mall, and then checked
into the Kieler Brauerei (Kiel Brewery), where the beer is served in wooden kegs; that is, if you can drink 10 liters!
«In the state of Arizona, children under the age of 18 are not allowed
to go into adult
bookstores, so we've created a similar situation on the Internet.
Now, Reading with Rover, Bishop's organization, consists of some seventy - five dog - and - trainer teams that regularly
go into libraries,
bookstores, and schools in several Seattle - area districts
to work with children who struggle with reading.
One benefit of using the Expanded Distribution option at CreateSpace is that the book then
goes into Baker & Taylor (a distributor used by many, many
bookstores), and from Baker & Taylor
to places such as Powell's, Mysterious Galaxy Books, B&N, etc..
Traditional publishing has ever been a lottery chance: throw your talent
into the ring and if you hit it juuuusst right, you can
go to the
bookstore and see your name on the shelf.
The downside is that Amazon owns Createspace and that means getting
into bookstores is
going to be much more difficult.
I'm not a big B&N fan, but if I want
to go into an actual
bookstore, that's my only easy option.
Academics are eliminating print reference, magazines have
gone digital and
bookstores are turning
into to books that just happen
to have a few books.
This is important
to understand because the information that
goes into a book proposal is the very same information that literary agents use
to sell books
to publishers; it's the same information that publishers use
to promote books
to bookstores, readers, and the media.
You can
go into your local
bookstores and lobby
to make this happen (many sellers, especially independents, like
to feature local authors).
People who might not
go into a
bookstore to procure entertainment are now reading books on their phones, iPads and tablets.
One of the on -
going problems with indie publishing is that it's been all but impossible
to get print copies of your book
into bricks - and - mortar
bookstores.
Really good advice in this podcast, especially
to do impromptu book signings at airports when traveling (using Twitter
to get the word out) and
going into non-traditional book stores such as airport
bookstores, spas, hotels and other places that sell books and talk
to the manager.
I have a friend who is a huge reader who doesn't like
to go into bookstores because they overwhelm her — she asks, «where is my iTunes for books?»
Our authors love the quality of our books, because they know that if they walk
into a
bookstore with a book that was printed through our program that the quality is
going to be spot - on, and that bookseller or library or what have you, won't know the difference that it was print on demand.
Reason: that bit about e-book readers
going into the Harvard
bookstore to buy the paper book resonates.
Should readers of ebooks be charged a fee that would
go into a fund
to subsidize
bookstores that sell print books?
However, if I want
to extend my reach
into bookstores I'm
going to have
to change my game plan.
Tara tells the story of a
bookstore she
went into,
to try
to market her book, and the
bookstore owner hiding in her office, refusing
to come out.
Yes, if you really want
to make a run at
bookstores,
go to CreateSpace for only Amazon, then move the same book file
to IngramSpark
to get
into the Ingrams catalogs and such with better discounts.
Good luck with the cleaning cats... Like you, I have a houseful of books, a library I haven't got time
to go into, and used
bookstores are always a passion.
When we
go into town, the only places I want
to visit are the libraries,
bookstores, and occasionally an art museum.
Women don't like
going into bookstores and having
to buy those books.
«Paperback scored very well over hardback for
bookstore discovery, and I think what's happened here is people were hearing about
Gone Girl and
going into the
bookstore without having
to discover it.»
If you
go to the local
bookstore and open the front cover of a hardback you'll likely
go into sticker shock!
If someone were willing
to hop
into their car
to get a book, why did they
go to the
bookstores?
And the stores are turning
into places where Barnes and Noble has
to sell a lot of other products like toys and games, cards, not just books... And it's not like if Barnes and Noble
goes away, a great independent
bookstore is
going to rise up in its place.
If some period of time passes and still no traffic
goes to your page, Amazon may move it
to «Temporarily out of stock»... the online equivalent of walking
into your local
bookstore and asking them
to order a title for you.
And yet somehow, I'm
going to wake up tomorrow morning and find that a story I wrote while working as a bookseller — a story that blossomed
into a novel one serialized piece at a time — is now being released
into bookstores far and wide.
But if I'm a
bookstore owner, why am I
going to allow you
to come
into my shop and just put your book on my shelves?
I challenge you
to go into a
bookstore and find a book which has a less than «glowing» one - liner printed either on its front or back cover.
It's still a good idea
to go to publishers / agents as they have more resources and can get you
into bookstores more easily, but if you are are not patient enough
to wait, or the rejections get
to you, or you want
to skip publishers altogether, then self - publishing is a great option
My recommendation is
to still
go with the Nexus 7, because it doesn't lock you
into a proprietary
bookstore, and you can get all the Google apps.
One major reason authors used
to need
to go with major publishing houses is that only through them could they get their books
into bookstores.
There's something the physical
bookstores could do
to stop me from constantly defaulting
to the Kindle app: Build functionality
into their own mobile app that makes me want
to go to their brick - and - mortar store.
Buy the download code from the university
bookstore,
go to the
bookstore to pick up the physical copy of the download code, and then log
into the publisher's site
to enter the download code and download the, I presume, heavily DRMed copy.
Several months pre-pub, I
went into a large indie
bookstore in the San Fran area and talked
to the owner.
A publisher may be able
to get your book out
into the
bookstores, but it's up
to you
to market your book like crazy
to get people
to go there and buy it.
So if you
go into a
bookstore, you flip over a book
to see that Joanna Penn read it and said it was good so it must be in the description of the book.
An online
bookstore aggregating content from publishers and authors, for example, does not know the production quality that
went into each submission, so can only convey
to consumers what is present in each publication's metadata.
Next time you
go into a
bookstore, consider the warehouses one would need
to store the manuscripts that never got a chance.
If I'm broke, I just have
to discipline myself not
to go into bookstores.
They can
go for a broader search option, which would be akin
to walking
into a vast
bookstore and heading over
to the Science Fiction section, or they can narrow it down, which would be like having a personal shopper handing over only the books that contain all of the search options the reader is interested in.
In the intro, I
go into some pertinent publishing news: Kobo has become Tolino's tech partner, which makes it a much bigger player in the growing German ebook market; Amazon is opening a
bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order
to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changes.
But it's not the only POD (Print on Demand) solution for indie authors, and it's not
going to help you get
into indie
bookstores, local retailers, and libraries.
The first time I published, I
went with Ingram Spark because I heard it would be easier
to get
into bookstores and libraries.
Yeah, there are competitors, and I don't think Amazon is
going to head
into «monopoly» territory anytime soon (they are a retailer, not just a
bookstore, or Wal - Mart might fit the same bill).
After the dismaying discovery that CreateSpace doesn't distribute everywhere, and that IngramSpark offers a whole ton of things that CreateSpace doesn't (we'll
go into this in a different article), I learned that small
bookstores and retailers often won't order inventory from CreateSpace and will only order your book if it's on IngramSpark, and oh, by the way — that you can be listed in BOTH places, I realized I needed
to have my books on IngramSpark as well as CreateSpace.