Sentences with phrase «many bookstore»

This book is available at all bookstores and online booksellers.

Above all else, encourage a program of patronizing your local bookstore, supermarket, shoe store, you name it, in the interest of maintaining the life of your community, even at some expense.

He's the owner of a bookstore chain; she's the woman he falls for online.

First time entrepreneurs Leah and Bea Koch raised $ 91,187 to start the only exclusively romance novel bookstore in the United States.

After someone tweeted about visiting the Barnes & Noble in Redwood City, California, Sutherland responded, suggesting that the person check out Kepler's Books, a 55 - year - old bookstore in Menlo Park.

«That was just the tip of the iceberg,» says Kelts, a University of Tokyo professor and author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. «I mean, [look at] the fact that sushi is available in mainstream supermarkets around the country; the fact that Japanese style, design and architecture are appearing in major cities around the country; [and] the popularity of manga and anime in bookstores and Wal - Mart and Target.»

In the early 1980s, the brothers — then in their mid-20s — set up in an apartment above a pornography bookstore on Halifax's Salter Street.

Considering the time I otherwise would have wasted perusing a convenience - slash - bookstore and fighting for an outlet at the gate, the productive pre-flight hours knocked a few hundred more dollars off my flight's exorbitant cost.

It might seem like a counterintuitive business approach for 2017 — even more so when you consider where the eyeglass company draws inspiration for the design of its stores: bookstores and libraries.

The nation's first J - Pop mall is in the works in San Francisco, created by Japanese film distributor Viz Pictures, and will feature a Japanese - only film theater, bookstore, cafà © and fashion boutiques with the U.S.'s first boutique for Gothic Lolita fashion.

That was the approach taken by Powell's Books, a bookstore in Portland, Oregon.

Shakespeare and Company may be the most famous book store in the world, but they're still just one bookstore, in one city, in an industry which is struggling.

For the bays where the glasses are on display, the company borrows an idea from bookstores, with shelves that often go nearly to the ceiling and sliding ladders that staff can use to grab hard - to - reach pairs of glasses for the customer.

That's right: While bookstores close across the country and libraries see huge declines in foot traffic, Warby Parker is betting that customers want to spend time in stores that resemble them.

Mahaney said the move to «heavy» brick - and - mortar assets in the grocery market was a «big acceleration» for Amazon, which had dipped into ventures such as bookstores in recent years.

Browse the bookstore aisles to find something that resonates and infuses your spirit.

My local colleagues and friends were happy to recommend the best bookstores to do readings, and the same people became my grassroots advocates when it came to hyping up my events.

New authors have a dream of arriving at a bookstore to an adoring crowd waiting in a line that stretches out the building, down the side walk and around the corner.

Q. Authors dream of seeing their work on the shelves of many bookstores.

There are whole markets where access to books, the distance to a bookstore is pretty far.

The businesses, craft stores and bookstores located in 41 states, are run by evangelical Christians, although the stores themselves are not explicitly religious.

«Incumbents aren't able to turn the corner and win in these new markets, as you can see from Blockbuster or the bookstores like Borders, all this wreckage of traditional businesses amid the disruption of technological change.»

(Obviously not liking Greenburg's answer, Jay - Z quickly reheated an abandoned project and beat Greenburg to the bookstores with his own memoir, Decoded.)

The company expanded its distribution points by fostering new relationships with retailers and solidifying exciting agreements with companies, including Subway Restaurants, AMC Theaters, Border's Bookstores, and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

That's not a bad starting point, to be supplemented by other smaller options including independent bookstores selling physical products.

Amazon's latest brick and mortar bookstore in New York City breathes new life into the traditional retail model.

With U.S. bookstore chains such as Borders bankrupt and Barnes and Noble on the ropes, and with Apple thoroughly chastened, Amazon now has that book monopoly that so many feared it was after.

Amazon's first New York City bookstore, Amazon Books, will open on Thursday morning, marking Amazon's highest - profile move into bricks - and - mortar retail to date.

«These are people who will need a grocery store, a bookstore, a music store,» says Goodman.

The store will now join the 2,000 - plus independent bookstores currently operating in the U.S., according to the American Booksellers Association.

I still got rid of about a quarter overall, selling them to a nearby bookstore.

Having heard my experience, my brother - in - law is starting to give me his huge collection of books to sell to the bookstore.

«But strategically, I just think that the first couple of years a bookstore would help the area more.»

He doesn't know who would run the bookstore or who would pay for it, but he isn't worried about that.

«Bookstores usually tend to run at 2 to 5 percent margin, so you're not going to get rich off it,» said Kinney.

The current owner, who opened the bookstores in the mid 1970s with help from her sister, has built up an inventory worth $ 83,000 and a loyal customer base.

The presentation also called out Mick McGuire, Marcato's founder and head, for his «track record of losses in the boardroom,» citing his tenure on the boards of NCR, a consumer technology company, and Borders, the now defunct bookstore.

On Monday, Starbucks and Joyride Coffee Distributors announced a partnership that would bring draft cold brew coffee to Starbucks» foodservice accounts at hospitals, bookstores, college and university campuses and offices.

Manhattan is not hurting for bookstores, but Queens and the Bronx are.

She plans to run her business from home and personally market her books in hospitals, day - care centers, schools, libraries and bookstores, where she will read her stories to children and sell the books to parents.

Back in 2015, it opened its first real physical bookstore, at University Village in Seattle, and it has continued to open staffed pickup points at universities across the U.S..

Business majors pray the bookstore still had cards left on the morning of Feb. 15, at a markdown, naturally.

Of course, the self - help section of every bookstore is littered with claims of procrastination cures.

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).

Tamblyn was already entrenched in the book business before he joined Kobo in 2009 (he founded the supply - chain agency BookNet Canada and co-founded Canada's first online bookstore, bookshelf.ca, which Indigo bought in 1998).

In an effort to get press, one entrepreneur made an appearance at a local bookstore and literally drew a 20 - mile circle on the map around their appearance location.

Founded in 2012, Franklin Media takes in surplus books from schools, publishers, and bookstores and resells them.

Bookstores are just the first to go,» Bill Streur, Book World's owner, tells The New York Times.

And what we realized was that we had 20 years of data — about why customers buy, how they buy, what they read, how they read and why they're reading it — that could make a physical bookstore just a different and better place to discover books.

Amazon is looking to go from operating a handful of Amazon - branded bookstores to more than 400 of Whole Foods» premium supermarkets.