Sentences with phrase «inventory on the bookstore»

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There are currently two valuation methods worth considering for bookstores: on the low end, rely on 15 % of annual sales plus the value of inventory (in this case, that suggests a $ 120,200 price tag).

And this chokehold not only affects the inventory you find on Christian bookstore shelves, but which books are contracted by publishers, what content gets edited in the writing and editing process, and the degree of freedom authors feel they have to speak on their own blogs and platforms.

What most people don't realize, however, is that the problem of sanitized Christian bookstores extends far beyond the inventory on the shelves to create an entire Christian subculture that is so sanitized and safe it often fails to produce art that is relevant to our culture or our lives.

Although bookstores could purchase inventory of an author's book for either the event or to offer on the shelves, a consignment arrangement is more likely.

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.

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.»

These print - on - demand interfaces potentially have the opportunity to change the book industry by allowing bookstores to offer almost limitless works without having to stock expensive inventory and ship heavy titles to their physical locations.

The other missing pieces are bookstores and libraries, but I doubt much good news will be coming from either sector; the big bookstore chains are stumbling badly this year, and my local stores have cut back on their graphic novel inventory, while libraries, like all branches of local government, must contend with budget cuts.

It takes a (helluva) lot of time and money for self - published books to get on the radar (never mind into the inventory and then shelf space) of a retail bookstore.

An ISBN number is how bookstores online and offline keep track of books, so if you also have plans to sell your book on the Internet or in bookstores, spending a few dollars to get an ISBN number makes yours a legitimate published book that they can carry in their inventory.

... The requirements to deliver on the promise «to put books on shelves» included the capital to invest and specialized knowledge to turn a manuscript into inventory, a physical plant to manage the warehousing and shipping of those books, and a network of relationships with the owners of the shelves (in the bookstores) to get the right to put your books on those shelves.

No bookstore can hope to match the inventory of print on demand books.

And the small indie bookstores can't afford gamble on large inventories of books and to wait on refunds on the inevitable returns.

After the dismaying discovery that CreateSpace doesn't distribute everywhere, and that IngramSpark offers a whole ton of things that CreateSpace doesn't (we'll go into this in a different article), I learned that small bookstores and retailers often won't order inventory from CreateSpace and will only order your book if it's on IngramSpark, and oh, by the way — that you can be listed in BOTH places, I realized I needed to have my books on IngramSpark as well as CreateSpace.

With the eBook market share stabilizing at about 30 % of sales and the decline in the number of retail bookstores new publishers have forsaken traditional inventory based publishing for digital publishing and print on demand (POD).

WORK EXPERIENCE Books R US — Loxley, AL Jan 2007 — Dec 2012 Bookstore Assistant • Greeted and assisted customers with locating books • Provided recommendation on popular titles and reading materials • Operated cash register to finalize sales by accepting cash in exchange of books sold • Managed and straightened book displays in the windows • Assisted bookstore staff with inventory • Received and priced books as instructed • Verified and balanced cash transactions at the beginning and end of each shifty • Performed data entry duties as required