Sentences with phrase «made by a bookseller»

Though the Kindle is at heart a reading machine made by a bookseller — and works most impressively when you are buying a book or reading it — it is also something more: a perpetually connected Internet device.

As we do not directly control these databases, we can not make the corrections ourselves, and we have no control over how quickly they are made by the bookseller.

Not exact matches

What's the buzz: Parents know these friendly booksellers by name - they're a self - proclaimed team that takes pride in making solid recommendations for their most discerning customers (read: «teen boys»).

(1) Make sure your title type is large enough to be read in the small «thumbnail» size used by online booksellers.

The company defended its adoption of the agency plan, which was «designed to facilitate entry by a new retail competitor and to increase the diversity and health of retail booksellers, and we took these actions knowing that Hachette itself would make less money than before the adoption of agency.»

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For certain types of books, this service can get your book more exposure by making it available to influential readers: reviewers, librarians, educators, media professionals, and booksellers.

While not required, by uploading these files, you're creating a more complete picture of your book and making it more discoverable and visible to the librarians, booksellers, and others who use Bowker's database.

But lose interest they did, driven by the convenience and low prices of online booksellers; the convenience and low prices of supermarkets (for best - sellers); the convenience and negligible price of downloading content, legally or otherwise; and in 2008, the financial crash that made all but the most robust business models look very vulnerable indeed.

By allowing indie authors to upload their manuscripts to the Digital Warehouse and making that server - based catalog available to all CBA partner booksellers, Transcontinental enables authors to select which booksellers carry their work and then instantly track their sales in order to more efficiently receive payment for their titles.

Both instances have driven some consumers to make a conscious effort to only shop locally, and the majority of UK independent booksellers surveyed by The Bookseller have reported they are feeling the effects of the sentiment.

There will be shorter initial print runs with quick follow - up runs if a book sells well, print on demand services will thrive (could we possibly see an Espresso Book Machine leased by publishers to booksellers so they can make a book while you wait... I hope so!)

And in writing up Hugh Howey re-signs with Random House UK for The Bookseller, I picked up on some of the open letter with which Kristin Nelson, Howey's agent, announced the UK deal, I was struck by her taking the chance to make this point:

Now, the EU is threatening to make good on its promise to government officials and booksellers alike, assuring that they will crack down on countries who intentionally undermine the tax rate that all other EU countries abide by.

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In an interview with the Bookseller, Authors Guild President Roxana Robinson said «People write on Huffington Post, they write for Goodreads, they write for Medium.com: valuable sites owned by big tech companies that make a lot of money for those companies.

Agency pricing, in which publishers set prices and booksellers take a fixed commission, promised to make it easier for small booksellers to compete by removing the threat of predatory pricing by retailing behemoths like Amazon.

In a statement explaining their position, Hatchette said it adopted the agency model that was «designed to facilitate entry by a new retail competitor [Apple] and to increase the diversity and health of retail booksellers, and we took these actions knowing that Hachette itself would make less money than before the adoption of agency.»

By popular demand, I have made a comprehensive, 18 - page index for Volume 1 of A Detailed Guide to Self - Publishing with Amazon and Other Online Booksellers.

It made ebooks real for many publishers and booksellers outside of the US and that was pretty useful in a year that has been dominated by digital developments.

Booksellers can react by hand - selling to customers and making themselves relevant as Ravenbooks has (I am increasingly sure of finding a pile of relevant books there every time I walk in) and no doubt this will mean concentrating on older books, out - of - print books and second - hand books, books that appeal directly to the customer, and print - on - demand books printed directly on site (though I am less convinced of the economic case for this).

In an English language market that could easily be technologically serviced from the UK or US (as Amazon does with Kindle) so long as the retailer made a small commitment on the ground marketing and brand building and converting print readers to digital, a small bookseller with great physical footprint and footfall but not much by way of a digital track record might just, strangely, be a leader in this shift from print to digital in Ireland.

There were good arguments to be made for exiting the European Union (and some were set out in The Bookseller, and in particular by agent Diane Banks), but these were simply drowned out by the Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson bandwagon.

Many, including Fabrice Piault and Barbara Casassus for The Bookseller, covered the comments made at Frankfurt Book Fair last week by Hachette Livre's Arnaud Nourry (pictured by Bernd Hartung for #FBM15).

The e-book publisher announced last Friday that titles from its new «Premium Catalog» would be made available through the Barnes & Noble eBookstore as well as through digital retailer Fictionwise, which was acquired by the bookseller in March.

These features make it possible for you to take advantage of the bookseller's relationship with Audible.com, which allows Kindle owners to automatically access up to 60,000 books as read by authors and actors.

Another looming question: is the UK Booksellers Association making too many compromises by partnering with outside service providers to offer e-books to their customers?

It makes it very easy to get your book made available for sale on Amazon, Amazon U.K., other online booksellers and also add your book to major wholesale catalogues used by brick and mortar booksellers all over the world too.

Calls for the UK government to address high street rents and rates to help bricks and mortar booksellers were made by both Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller, and Foyles CEO Sam Husain at the London Book Fair last Monday.

By Siobhan O'Leary Though Apple's iPad may not be available in Europe for months, the Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers and Booksellers Association) has nonetheless released a statement about it, pointing out that they are pleased to see another device on the market that will make the mobile reading of e-books more attractive.

Make it easy for librarians and booksellers to order your book by using this.

By making the online giant the only source from which a reader can get Patricia Cornwell's new book in print, a bookseller's ground war with Seattle has delivered the prize — another consumer — to the opponent.

Made of foam - core, the columns were shipped flat and assembled by bookstore staff: a portable way of attaining the «transformative energy of the plinth» that, according to a statement released by the bookseller, Saville observed at his 2005 museum retrospective.

Silver Eye has made it easier for you by curating a selection of presses, booksellers, and artists for a two - day immersion into photographic printed matter.

Timothy Hyman's The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century (2016) is published by Thames & Hudson and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.