Sentences with phrase «hand bookstore for»

All the average reader knew was that a book by one of the authors they liked to read was no longer easily found for purchase and they'd have to either go to the library or to the second hand bookstore for a copy.

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Look for President Obama to take a stroll on Saturday, most likely with his daughters and most likely to some locally owned bookstore like DC's Politics and Prose, to buy a few items with a credit card that will be discreetly handed to him by a helpful aide.

The Blood - Red Crescent: Henry Garnett Enemy Brothers: Constance Savery (to slake an inexhaustible thirst for World War II stories) and whatever else he can get his hands on via the library, the secondhand bookstore, where he is a regular customer, and our own shelves.

But today's book, Best Lunch Box Ever: Ideas and Recipes for School Lunches Kids Will Love, is so popular that it's sold out in bookstores and I can't get my hands on... [Continue reading]

But today's book, Best Lunch Box Ever: Ideas and Recipes for School Lunches Kids Will Love, is so popular that it's sold out in bookstores and I can't get my hands on a copy!

They're perfect for nursing moms to hold in one hand, and having access to an enormous library of books you can order any time, anywhere, without having to schlep kids out in the snow or rain or keep them quiet in a bookstore or library is amazing.

It has created hordes of parents who shop for car seats with a consumer's guide in hand, enroll in parent education classes and haunt the childrearing sections of bookstores — all frighteningly determined to be the most perfect parents they can be.

If we want to recreate the free and easy world of second - hand bookstores digitally, this is ultimately the only way to do it — through experimentation and respect for craft.

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.

Konrath, a traditionally published author for years who's now an outspoken advocate for self - publishing, is famous for visiting hundreds of bookstores around the country to hand sell his work.

Peter Hudson of BitLit explained his startup's concept for bundling ebooks with print titles to give bookstores a hand up into the digital arena.

Some authors would go on to hand - sell their book to friends, family members, and strangers in the community while directing them to our bookstore for the transaction.

I started up a little, part - time, used bookstore on the internet and for a couple of years, business was okay, but what I found as I tried to stock up on inventory was that it was not fun going to used book sales and stepping over other book sellers blocking the aisles with their hand - held scanners and boxes of «don't touch these, their mine» used books.

ABA will market the EBM machines to its partner bookstores, making it possible for any customer to request a cataloged title and have it in hand within a few minutes, at the same cost to both the customer and the bookseller as keeping a large supply of surplus inventory on hand.

For them, visiting a bookstore is always a pleasureable experience, what with getting to feel the book first hand while the joy of hitting upon an entirely new books that might have been least expected is unparalled.

For everyone that wanted to get their hands on the Spring Design Alex E-Reader, it's in stores now at Boarders Bookstores nationwide.

Viz is stretching that community in different directions, with print exclusives for digital subscribers and in - person meetups at comics conventions — they handed out free ice cream bars at an off - site event during Comic - Con in San Diego last July, and during NYCC they had a meetup at the nearby Kinokuniya bookstore.

On the other hand, Lightning Source makes it easier for libraries and bookstore to order your books.

Traditionally book launches are held in bookstores because it is much more convenient for you to have an ample supply of your books at hand.

The best advice is to simply look around bookstores, notebook in hand, for books similar to your forthcoming work.

I don't care for walking into a bookstore, handing someone the sell sheet, and then having them say they'll be glad to do it on consignment.

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!

But what if you could walk into a bookstore and ask for any book that was ever written and have it handed to you on the spot?

The bottom line here is that as Amazon's power to sign up books away from the major publishers grows, the retailers who depend on publishers for a flow of commercial product suffer along with the publishers... B&N's decision seems to me like the right move for them... On the other hand, authors and agents who might have considered an Amazon publishing deal will have to think twice if they know very few bookstores will carry it... There are a lot of smart people engaged in a pitched battle here.

So, instead of buying the e-book, or even the print book, they wait for it to go on sale through Amazon or another online retailer or they go to the second hand bookstore or borrow it from the library.

We are continuing to look for ways to bring indie authors and indie booksellers together — exploring the ways that ebooks can be hand - sold in local bookstores and the ways in which bookstores can have a part in recommending great ebook reads to their customers.

The independent bookstores that hand - sell and specialty stores therein like SF or mystery bookstores — they are the big helpers of mid-list titles, which is why mid-list authors have had it hard for awhile.

On the one hand, if I bought every book I read I would have enough to fill a bookstore and no room for anything else in my house.

1,000 people going into a bookstore wanting John Ringo might not settle for J.D. Robb (well, aside from a few people I know), but I doubt even 300 of them are leaving the bookstore empty handed.

But if you're like the majority of the population, more people visit their local bookstore or online retailer more often than they'll visit your author website or hand you cash for a copy, so you have to consider what that exposure is worth to you and where you do that is your wholesale discount.

And I have serious reservations about the way in which on the one hand Google is selling its services as a disinterested engine for discovery and real sales through linked bookstores, and on the other is on the verge of opening the largest and best indexed ebook store in existence.

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.

Virtual bookstores provide the accessible showroom where everyone can equally be qualified to write for their target group and hand each product to their customers more affordably.

Every few months there's a media report bemoaning the state of literature: hand - wringing over e-readers; fearing for the future of the bookstore; issuing dire warnings about Amazon and Apple.

As hand - selling recommendations from your trusted bookseller become more and more important to readers, and the shopping experience transforms into bliss, watch for a renaissance in local bookstores across the nation.

There's plenty of provocation on hand as well, notably Paul McCarthy's surprisingly direct broadside of Jeff Koons in the form of glossy sculptures of balloon dogs — with a gigantic hot - air version perched outside the fair's entrance — that tweak that fellow mega-artist for his eyebrow - raising 2011 legal fight with a small San Francisco bookstore selling mini balloon dog sculptures.