Sentences with phrase «go to the bookstore at»

When I was most miserable in my job, I would go to the bookstore at lunchtime and indulge in retail therapy to escape my life for a time.

Not exact matches

«Bookstores usually tend to run at 2 to 5 percent margin, so you're not going to get rich off it,» said Kinney.

I work at a bookstore, and I went early yesterday morning before the store was open to buy it.

They had to go dig it out of receiving at my local bookstore, but I spent the evening poring over the photos / recipes.

I remember you mentioning at the bookstore that you were trying to go fully began — big huge congrats on doing so and glad you found Nutramilk as I remember you saying milk in your coffee / tea was hard to replace!

In case you'd like to get started now and try this out, but feel overwhelmed, look for a story - based children's yoga book at your local library or bookstore, such as Jasper's Journey to the Yoga - Animals, and go from there.

You could even go to your favorite bookstore and look at a guidebook on a few destinations, or create a Pinterest board to inspire your dream trip.

Talk about watching sports together, or going to the movies or hanging out at the bookstore.

I'm looking for a creative, intelligent woman, who is maybe just a little cynical, but not hopeless, spaced out but not gone, and who at least USED to like bookstores (not many left anymore).

Whatever the case may be, you may have looked at some over 50 dating sites to find someone to be with instead of going on blind dates or meeting the ladies in a supermarket or bookstore.

While attending school in Nuremberg... Every time we used to go shopping at Politics and Prose, a bookstore near my old apartment, I would tell Josh that I wanted to work there.

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..

Back when my first novel was published in 1997, authors went on book tours, scheduling talks and signings at bookstores, groceries, and even stopping at drugstores and big - box retail stores to sign books on the shelves.

Had I been simply browsing them at a bookstore, I would definitely have read a paragraph or two for those I pulled off the shelf, but once I had about three in my hand, I would know to stop browsing and go to the check out line.

This is another book I'd been meaning to read for a long time, and when I came across a signed paperback copy at a bookstore in Brooklyn, I decided to go for it.

If it is 10 pm and you are at home, you may have to wait to scratch that literary itch until the next day, possibly after work or class, and still make the time to go to the bookstore to buy it.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

All afternoon and evening — as Spain's national football team dismantled their Irish rivals on the pitch in Poland — Google Play Spain had been uploading new banners at their online bookstore, but nothing indicated that they were going to go live quite so soon.

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.

When a specific book jumps out at customers perusing the shelves of their local bookstore, the first place they go to is the inside flap (or back cover in some instances).

If you are not sure about what size is appropriate for your book, go to a bookstore or the library and look at a number of books in the same genre as your book and make notes on the range of sizes and see what you y like best.

If anything goes wrong with your device, you can simply bring it back to any bookstore and they can take a look at it.

I am tickled that they are selling in the USA but I would have rather seen them take it to sell at independent book stores then advertise to go to your indie bookstore for one and help the little stores compete or sell at Best Buy but Walmart is better than nothing

Several years ago I went to a local indie bookstore which, according to the Kobo website at the time, sold Kobo readers.

The only bookstore left standing is the one at Bayside, but Barnes and Noble announced that is going to be shut down later this year.

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Purchase (or at least go to the bookstore and look at) the top sellers in your subcategory.

(I am often forced to roll my eyes when I tell people that and they look at me bewildered and say «But I see tons of people in the bookstore when I go, how can that be?»

That «80 % +» holds whether one measures by titles released, by face value, by copies sold, by compensation paid to authors, by shelf - inches devoted in general bookstores, by sales rankings at Amazon... indeed, by any numeric measure of which I am aware, and my «day job» involves being directly and immediately aware of what's going on in publishing.

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.

I'll go ahead and tell you first and foremost, if your book is a top seller at Amazon or you have a great Amazon history or sell sheet, that's great, and that's very good, but that's not important to the bookstore.

And they don't have a subscription system either so you have to go to a bookstore / convenience store to buy each issue at it is released.

So, some of the things that we're seeing here at IngramSpark, not only are bookstores building programs to more robustly support their local author community, but they're also building programs to print and publish titles themselves, because they understand that creating content specific to a region is what's going to sell that product.

Just like if you are going on a real life book tour, you will still need to make appearances at bookstores or seminars.

Somewhere in a cubicle at the American Booksellers Association, or in the back office of a courageous indie bookstore, I like to imagine someone secretly preparing a «Nixon Goes to China» book - world shocker.

When you go to your favorite bookstore in search of a specific title, and it's not prominently displayed, you generally end up asking for it at the information counter.

We are an indie bookstore that tries to meet needs in the community and have first hand seen more people decide to come to our store than go on Amazon or shop at Hastings because we offer things they can't.

He also goes back, trying to get at Amazon's intentions toward books:» «Don't forget,» the chief of a publishing house said, «Bezos has declared that the physical book and bookstores are dead.»»

Besides writing I like to go to the pool with my kids, browse at the bookstore, have a neighbor over for tea, travel, watch reruns of Monk, read, have a lot of kids at our house, and go out for dinner with my husband.

If you're satisfied that a given vanity publisher is not a crook, go to your local bookstore and ask them if they've ever ordered any books at all from the publisher you're interested in.

This slim book was found at a used bookstore's going - out - of - business sale (alas), read by my mother, and then passed along to me.

I love going to the bookstore and looking at the books on the shelves.

Next, they partner with local bookstores because they want to go after hardcore readers, the types of people who devour books at an accelerated pace.

The steps were outlined in a post by GalleyCat that told users how to go about supporting indie authors and their locally owned bookstores at the same time.

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.

Many authors are glad to know that there are people out there who still love books and they are glad to go out and meet their readers at indie bookstores.

I was also able to quickly figure out which books sell mainly on Amazon (perhaps candidates for KDP Select down the road, depending on where the program goes), and which books are doing well at other bookstores (not candidates for KDP Select).

I'm not going to get in line at the local bookstore (independent or otherwise) and beg them to take me on a consignment basis.

Go to writing groups, other author signings at your local bookstore, and larger events like expos and conventions.

But as the number of brick and mortar bookstores decline (and as many of the remaining ones cut author appearances), actually going out to speak at bookstores is just a small part of what you as an author can do to promote your book.