Sentences with phrase «like going to a bookstore»

Alan Rinzler: There's nothing like going to a bookstore and looking through a book.

If using comiXology is like going to a comics shop and shopping in the Kindle store is like going to a bookstore, buying comics on Kickstarter is like going to a craft fair or an artist's studio.

Not exact matches

Sales representatives visit bookstores; ads appear in this magazine and others like it: catalogs go out to academics and pastors.

So, the next day we went to Kiel, checked out the German language cookbooks in the Borders - like bookstore in the mall, and then checked into the Kieler Brauerei (Kiel Brewery), where the beer is served in wooden kegs; that is, if you can drink 10 liters!

I am flying to Omaha, Neb., taking a cab straight from the airport to the Nebraska - Omaha campus, asking directions to the bookstore, buying the largest «MAVERICKS» sweatshirt, like the one he is wearing, they have in stock, going directly back to the airport, flying to Kansas City, taking a cab straight to Kauffman Stadium, and giving this guy the sweatshirt.

In case you'd like to get started now and try this out, but feel overwhelmed, look for a story - based children's yoga book at your local library or bookstore, such as Jasper's Journey to the Yoga - Animals, and go from there.

And if you pick up — the way I like to put it is this, you know, you go to the bookstore or the library and you get an edition of Hamlet, well, that's easy, «cause there's hundreds of them.

I love gift cards for movies, b / c it makes me feel like I'm spending less when I go and to bookstores!

I went to the bookstore the other day, which is kind of like a library, and just enjoyed it since I haven't been in one forever.

I'm looking for a creative, intelligent woman, who is maybe just a little cynical, but not hopeless, spaced out but not gone, and who at least USED to like bookstores (not many left anymore).

Like to dress up and my lil mini skirts and chase cock, go to adult bookstores, clubs hotels.

43 5» 10» 165 brn hair n eyes I love to dress up sexy and look like a dirty little whore then go out to bookstores and get filled by cock.

I too could go the e-book route but 1) like AJ I prefer the printed book; and 2) I refuse to contribute to the decline of bookstores by e-books.

You can go into your local bookstores and lobby to make this happen (many sellers, especially independents, like to feature local authors).

Especially ones released in hardcover all over the place, the ones bookstores are going to be discounting like crazy on the assumption that everybody on the planet will be buying them.

I have a friend who is a huge reader who doesn't like to go into bookstores because they overwhelm her — she asks, «where is my iTunes for books?»

Once you are satisfied that this book looks like what you want on bookstore shelves and other readers are used to seeing... go ahead and pick your book's birthday (also known as a publication date) and celebrate.

But they are becoming a niche product and only speciality bookstores are going to prosper — not your large book chains like Borders and Angus & Robertson.

If you are not sure about what size is appropriate for your book, go to a bookstore or the library and look at a number of books in the same genre as your book and make notes on the range of sizes and see what you y like best.

More bookstores are going to have to take this approach (or one like it); if they don't Amazon will continue to drive wholesale prices down, shrinking profits to the point that selling books will be nothing more than a loss - leader for them.

On a trip through Wales more than a decade ago, the border town of Hay - on - Wye — where some 30 used bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon).

Another cool thing is that you get free book samples so that you can preview the books before buying them, kind of like when you go to the bookstore.

Just like if you are going on a real life book tour, you will still need to make appearances at bookstores or seminars.

Somewhere in a cubicle at the American Booksellers Association, or in the back office of a courageous indie bookstore, I like to imagine someone secretly preparing a «Nixon Goes to China» book - world shocker.

Good luck with the cleaning cats... Like you, I have a houseful of books, a library I haven't got time to go into, and used bookstores are always a passion.

Women don't like going into bookstores and having to buy those books.

For me, going to bookstores was kind of like going to church on Sunday mornings.

Over time, it is going to be harder for bookstores to survive, but they won't disappear like video or record stores.

Besides writing I like to go to the pool with my kids, browse at the bookstore, have a neighbor over for tea, travel, watch reruns of Monk, read, have a lot of kids at our house, and go out for dinner with my husband.

And the stores are turning into places where Barnes and Noble has to sell a lot of other products like toys and games, cards, not just books... And it's not like if Barnes and Noble goes away, a great independent bookstore is going to rise up in its place.

There are a number of notable books that are going to be released this year and bookstores are going to be marketing like crazy.

Go to your library or local bookstore and find a fresh voice, and if you like their work, spread the word.

This is primarily done for security, but it looks like the bookstore is going one step further and making people have to prove who they say they are.

But if your goal is to sometime down the road have enough books to distribute to bookstores in a catalog like any other publisher, then go ahead and figure your discounts.

Folks don't go to a bookstore like they do to a Walmart or Target.

Go to writing groups, other author signings at your local bookstore, and larger events like expos and conventions.

And shifting just 5 % of the market from physical books to digital ones all of a sudden means that the majority of books purchased are digital — and just like that, physical bookstores go out of business.

Places like bookstores that do indie author events all the time are a go - to.

If friends have promised to organize events, get in touch with them and keep the publicist apprised of what's going on — keep in mind that most bookstores don't have the staff to sell books at offsite events (like your friends» parties) if fewer than about 100 people attend.

All the average reader knew was that a book by one of the authors they liked to read was no longer easily found for purchase and they'd have to either go to the library or to the second hand bookstore for a copy.

A publisher may be able to get your book out into the bookstores, but it's up to you to market your book like crazy to get people to go there and buy it.

In conclusion, just like a potential reader goes to the bookstore or to Amazon.com to purchase a book, they search on line for blogs to read.

And so, the casual «going to hangout at the bookstore» person just doesn't exist in Omaha like they did 10 - 15 years ago.

How many print book buyers go to a physical bookstore per se, and how many print book buyers buy them in places like Walmart and Walgreens and Publix?

The comic shop (it was argued) would be like the specialty bookstore, attracting customers who wanted to go beyond the limited selection of (for example) mystery novels at B&N, and find a place with a deep and wide stock of mysteries.

They can go for a broader search option, which would be akin to walking into a vast bookstore and heading over to the Science Fiction section, or they can narrow it down, which would be like having a personal shopper handing over only the books that contain all of the search options the reader is interested in.

He was referring not to professional reviewers for outlets like the New York Times but citizen reviewers with a role similar to «the role that booksellers used to take... if we're forced into a situation where physical bookstores are going away, then we have to have these people who are help us sell our books.»

So yes, I'm convinced online bookstores like Amazon et al. still have a long way to go before they can actually support effective book discovery.

I encourage fellow writers to go «grassroots» — go to independent bookstores and sites like Barnes & Noble.

«Have you ever met someone who goes to a bookstore on a Friday, buys a book on trading, read it over the weekend and attempts to head into the market on Monday and start to trade like he is a professional trader?»