Sentences with phrase «heard about a bookstore»

At the time, I heard about a bookstore owner complaining that he had to close his doors because of the Big Chains.

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In 1977 (Starsky And Hutch poster on the wall, David Bowie on the turntable, Bellow's Humboldt's Gift and Alex Haley's Roots in the bookstore) we see Ben (Oakes Fegley), a kid in Gunflint, Minnesota who is plagued by nightmares about wolves (of which there are a few in his home state), by his hearing condition, and by memories of his single mom, Elaine (Michelle Williams), who died in a car wreck without ever revealing to him who his dad was.

I learned about this because I was at a bookstore presentation for another author and after she spoke, the book events coordinator told the audience to come back next week to hear this author.

I heard about pressure from physical bookstores to increase ebook prices, or they would refuse to stock the titles in their stores.

I'll be very interested to hear what the REAL independent bookstores have to say about the issue — and if the boffins behind the new http://www.myindependentbookshop.co.uk site would like to reply, that would be terrific.

(Also, the more speaking you do at libraries, the better your bookstore sales will be, because at least some of the patrons who come hear about your book at your library talk will then go out and purchase the book at their local bookstore.

But more and more, we keep hearing about the resurgence of the independent bookstore and how print is not dying after all.

When I sat down to interview Jessica Verday at Davis - Kidd bookstore in Nashville, I hoped to hear juicy details about how she came to write a paranormal teen romance inspired by The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

A local indie bookstore heard about the students plight and started a crowdfunding campaign to buy a book for each of the 350 kids who signed the petition.

You may have heard a lot about how much junk there is at the online bookstores since self - publishing has become relatively easy and inexpensive.

«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.»

I can not remember where I first heard about this book, but when I checked it out at the bookstore, I could not get past the first couple of pages.

Author Unknown These days, you can't go into a coffee shop, bookstore, or turn on your television without hearing about social networks...

I live hear AS, and I know most of the bookstores (Indie) grumble about them.

When talking to writers about the big difference between indie and traditional publishing, the main difference you will hear is that traditional publishing can get you into bookstores.

Integrating new options into the way people discover, use, and contribute to the record of scholarship can be exhausting, and someone who hears about a new novel may have trouble getting it because it's not available through their library, their favorite bookstore can't carry it, it's in the wrong ebook format, or it's only available to people living in a different geographic region, which seems insane since their Facebook friends who are raving about it have no trouble expressing themselves from a different continent.

99 % of indie authors will not have print distribution in physical bookstores, and I would postulate that all the success stories we have heard in the last 2 years about indie authors and huge sales have come from ebook sales, not print.

They see what's happened with newspapers, they realize many of their local bookstores have disappeared, and most of them have heard about the self - publishing revolution.