She moves from a small Tasmanian town to New York City with nothing more than $ 300 in her pocket and takes a job at
a large used bookstore — becoming embroiled in a mystery surrounding a lost Melville manuscript.
Not exact matches
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.
Rather than disparage the retail website, the
bookstore's tweet aficionado simply suggested that Serrano remind his
large fan base that indie
bookstores could
use a little support, too.
The
bookstore itself features a
large selection of free books that
use Google Book's
large database of scanned public domain library books.
One silver lining, was that Sony was the
largest company that
used the stock Adobe DRM, but they have since abandoned their
bookstore in the USA and Canada.
Founded in 1995, Blue Bicycle Books (then Boomer's Books) is a local
bookstore located in Charleston, South Carolina that has over 50,000 volumes, including a
large and comprehensive collection of
used, rare and new Charleston material.
Despite the delaying tactics
large publishers have been
using to slow ebook growth, it's likely that in 2011 we'll see ebooks hit a tipping point where most big box
bookstores will no longer be financially viable, and will close or move to smaller locations.
Well, APub is an arm of the world's
largest bookstore, and therefore it makes sense that it would
use the power of its algorithms to feature titles it publishes.
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.
Using the shop function takes you to the Barnes and Noble shop where you have just about the
largest bookstore in the World.
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.
Regarding
used books: Again, the campus
bookstore has the
largest source and selection of such money - saving course materials.