These are always great venues and sometimes easier to get
into than bookstores.
Not exact matches
At any given time I could walk
into a
bookstore and buy more
than I could carry.
Had publishers treated Amazon like a retailer out to sell as many of their works as possible, rather
than seeing this business partner as a threat to the
bookstores they already worked with, they could have kept Amazon (or delayed them) from getting
into publishing.
She knew she couldn't get
into bookstores, so she would have to devise another way to get the word out about her book, Cat in the Flock — a much harder task
than it would have been five or six years ago.
1 min readSometimes there is nothing more gratifying for an author
than to walk
into their neighborhood
bookstore and see their own blood, sweat, and tears resting on the shelf.
I've also learned that putting books
into bookstores on consignment isn't worth the time and effort: there are better, smarter, cheaper ways to sell books
than to move them one by one in return for miniscule checks for a few dollars.
Agents understand they can make more from self publishing
than from book touting; even
bookstore chains like Dymocks entered
into self publishing as a service to prospective authors.
Unless the small press has a dedicated, exceptional sales team committed to marketing your book and getting you
into bookstores (which some do, so check carefully), they are unlikely to be able to market any more effectively
than the author can (and often less so).
It also fails to take
into account the fact that indie
bookstores, where some of those less
than best seller books could be found, were run out of the market by the influx of the big box
bookstores in the 1980s and 1990s.
I have walked
into bookstores and saw nothing more
than a wooden table, with a blue sheet and stuff piled all over it.
In the past 20 years, Amy has sold more
than three million books
into the
bookstore, library, and chain store markets for small and mid-sized publishers.
From the initial planning stages through the book events themselves, perhaps no other group has the range of insight
into what authors do to create successful appearances
than bookstore event coordinators.
From the initial planning stages through the events themselves, perhaps no other group has the range of insight
into what authors do to create successful appearances
than bookstore event coordinators.
There is no
bookstore built
into the unit of note, but because you can basically install your store of choice, this e-reader allows for unparalleled freedom and is more solid
than any of the e-readers Onyx sells.
There is nothing better
than walking
into a
bookstore and seeing rows upon rows of books, all of them available for my perusal.
In a matter of weeks, your TBR list will be longer
than you are tall, you will be wondering how the heck you walked
into a
bookstore for one little book, and walked out with two bags crammed full of new novels you never knew you wanted.
Though the distractible Claire can't be bothered to address the alarming rate at which her
bookstore inventory walks out the door on its own, she is more
than willing to throw herself
into a murder investigation when the prosecutor makes a grievous error: He humiliates Claire in public.»
As you say, managing the printing and distribution myself via my own eStore has proved more profitable
than distributing via
bookstores, but I believe it's a worthwhile sacrifice getting
into chain stores to reach readers who aren't comfortable buying online.
To that end, Mr. Boire is leading a push to rebrand Barnes & Noble as more
than just a
bookstore by expanding its offerings of toys, games, gadgets and other gifts and reshaping the nation's largest
bookstore chain
into a «lifestyle brand.»
There is still something nice about going
into a nice library or
bookstore than you can't get by downloading a file.
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.
His goal is to lead «a push to rebrand Barnes & Noble as more
than just a
bookstore by expanding its offerings of toys, games, gadgets and other gifts and reshaping the nation's largest
bookstore chain
into a «lifestyle brand.»»
They win because they have way more reading choices today
than the limited number of books once monopolizing publishers had funneled
into bookstores the last 60 years.
It took one year and a half to turn an idea — a breakthrough one,
into OpenBooks.com, a virtual
bookstore where you read first,
than pay what you...
If we get more money
than expected, we'll broaden our reach
into bookstores.
In exchange for
than munificence you surrender all control, they slap on a cover, and you have a pathway
into brick and mortar
bookstores.
Less
than 1 % of books make it
into a
bookstore and the numbers are even lower for self - published books.
This is again due to the collapse of the wholesale market in the 1990's which was almost all mass market paperback, the need then to raise prices on mmps as they moved more heavily
into the
bookstores, and the costs involved with mmp re the returns system (mmp are «returned» for full refund by ripping off their front covers, returning those to the publishers and the rest of the books are pulped because that's cheaper
than shipping those units back, which has been a real mess.)
The only readers who face problems in the years ahead are those committed or locked
into print for some reason who might face the risk of
bookstores closing more rapidly
than anticipated and loosing easy access.
«I try not to use it for books more
than I have to,» he said, «because I see a real value in walking
into a
bookstore and seeing things jump off the shelves.»
For some booksellers, the option of putting their limited time and capital
into keeping their bricks and mortar
bookstore competitive rather
than selling ebooks might make sense.
If we're not with a publishing house and aren't distributed by anyone (or just through the Createspace options), do we have much of a chance getting
into bookstores other
than local shops like Half Price Books and Book People?
Walk
into any
bookstore and you're likely to find a lot more on sale
than just books?
In some ways it is a bit sad, when formerly public spaces get converted to private residences, but not every church can be converted
into a
bookstore or other public use, and this chapel is a bit less dramatic
than the church that became the bookshop.