Sentences with phrase «independent used bookstore»

While I adore the community feel and eco-friendliness of public libraries, and the shiny newness and convenience of large bookstores, my current happy medium is the independent used bookstore.

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Order from your favorite independent bookstore, using ISBN 978 - 1630476588 (we LOVE indies).

She also mentions forming partnerships with independent bookstores using displays with e-book gift cards — something similar to what Enthrill Books in Canada or eLibros in Colombia have done.

I think independent bookstores who offer more than books will survive — and if they offer used books, even better, since soon there won't be that many books in print.

OPDS Catalogs, which are easily produced from simple descriptive metadata, can be harvested by search engines and aggregated by online retailers; their design supports independent reading systems, bookstores, the development of portable bookshelves, and other applications facilitating the use of digital materials.

You get an incredible sales letter you can use again and again, sales email sent to 700 independent bookstores, featured on Ask the Booksellers website, and social shared to 50,000 + followers.

After all, if a consumer is willing to physically stand in an independent bookstore and make the purchase on their smartphone (or on their tablet, using the store's wifi connection as they do), will simply pointing out how it harms small businesses enough?

That's something that bookstore owners consistently discuss with me, is the methods of approach that independent authors and independent publishers use when they come into the stores to sell their books.

I'll use it for Kobo next time, too, since their connection to Independent Bookstores has raised their profile.

Among the many reasons Stallman gives for boycotting Amazon are that the company sells ebooks and digital music that deprives customers of their rights through restrictive licensing, that the Amazon Kindle - or Swindle, as he calls it - uses proprietary software and contains backdoors through which Amazon can delete books and update software, that the company reportedly abuses its employees by making them work in sweatshops, and that it hurts independent bookstores, small publishers, and authors through its near - monopoly power.

Also, about 200 independent bookstores in the American Booksellers Association will be able to use the Google eBook platform to sell books, sharing profits with Google without the need to build an online platform, she said.

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The BN and deceased Borders sucked the life out of my favorite local independent bookstores and the vast selection in the used book store 3 miles from me is very appealing.

What is unique are the number of independent bookstores providing shelf space for those readers who do not use an e-reader and for the independent author to showcase their work at a bookstore.

Introduce your book (s) to 3,500 chain and independent bookstore buyers using IBPA's Bookstore Catalog!

Google is focused on offering their ebooks through the cloud using web browsers instead of downloads like other stores, and Google is working with a long list of Independent Bookstores.

Unprofessional practices (agents who «blitz» submit or use their clients» own query letters, publishers that make writers responsible for getting their own books into bookstores, independent editors who claim that manuscripts have to be «professionally» edited in order to be competitive)

«We are seeking relief for independent brick - and - mortar bookstores so that they would be able to sell open - source and DRM - free books that could be used on the Kindle or other electronic ereaders,» Decker explained to The Huffington Post by telephone.

It used to be that you were kept from the bookstore world, from the independent gift store world.

I was in a local indie bookstore (Tattered Cover) looking at a lot of books from independent presses, and one of the things that really leapt out at me as feeling rough was use of margins.

This morning, Shelf Awareness ran a piece about a handful of independent bookstores taking issue with a large publishing house's use of Groupon: in typical Groupon fashion, the house offered consumers 50 percent off their purchases.

I have always supported my local Half Price Books store and the few other used independent bookstores not just because of the prices, but because they offer so many out of print and hard to find books that I am always looking for or happen to come across while browsing the aisles.

The top five alternatives in order of popularity were: Barnes & Noble, independent bookstores, B&N.com, used bookstores and Costco.

My system is designed for most of the independent bookstores which use the casual approach to book - signings.

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.

However, the electronic «evolution» seems to be changing as of late, insofar as recent articles are suggesting a slowing of e-book sales and upswing of independent bookstores — new and used alike.

The Codex Group survey also found that half of the «shifted buying» went to Barnes & Noble, independent bookstores, barnesandnoble.com, used bookstores and Costco, in that order.

Local Angeleno Maggie Torsney - Weir shares her guide to the best quirky bookshops and used bookstores in Los Angeles, from children's books to travel tomes, to independent bookstores that have become LA literary institutions, such as the iconic The Last Bookstore: Read more

The small bookstores accused the two national chains of illegally using their size to demand discounts from publishers, a move they said undermined independent booksellers» ability to compete.