Sentences with phrase «not good bookstore»

Hey, There are a lot of good small presses that can't promise bookstore placement - or at least not good bookstore placement.

Aren't good bookstores the best?

Not exact matches

Ever since Amazon opened its first physical bookstore in late 2015, there's been a question burning through industry circles: This retail initiative can't really be about selling good old - fashioned books.

Not only did the store thrive, the San Francisco Weekly named the shop in its Best of San Francisco issue as the «best reimagined bookstore» in a city with a gazillion book stoBest of San Francisco issue as the «best reimagined bookstore» in a city with a gazillion book stobest reimagined bookstore» in a city with a gazillion book stores.

One can not walk into an American bookstore without finding a plethora of books, from every different angle, decrying some national problem or crisis, and advocating changes for the better.

Many graduate students have entered the bookstore, flipped through the pages of Insight, or the Phenomenology of Spirit, and concluded, «Meh, better not.»

But today's book, Best Lunch Box Ever: Ideas and Recipes for School Lunches Kids Will Love, is so popular that it's sold out in bookstores and I can't get my hands on... [Continue reading]

But today's book, Best Lunch Box Ever: Ideas and Recipes for School Lunches Kids Will Love, is so popular that it's sold out in bookstores and I can't get my hands on a copy!

This is very good news since there are not a lot of good books in bookstores on breastfeeding.

We don't have many good bookstores in our area.

The older Android version isn't compatible with a good share of apps and the built - in bookstore is Polish so most books need to be sideloaded.

Unless a book has incredible advance sales or the author is very well known (and many times not even then) bookstores are not going to contact an author to do a book event.

Most school bookstores do, too, but they don't usually offer the best prices — so use them as a last resort for selling books back.

And not just bookstores, but public libraries as well.

With the exception of Portland's Powell's (a bookstore that literally takes up an entire city block) and other well - known stores, booksellers, unfortunately, are not able to compete unless they drastically cut the price of their merchandise.

With a 50 % discount from us, bookstores can mark what doesn't sell at half price and do better than returning the books (bookstores pay the shipping for returns, and they pay employees to box up the books).

I see this as siphoning money from writers; I don't see this as impacting bookstores because, well, they won't be there.

The vast majority of readers are loyal to a single digital bookstore and do not comparably shop around to find the best deals.

3) You don't think there should be any force that determines a good book or a bad book but the public 4) You have built a company based on submitting user generation content to all major online bookstores, libraries and eBook subscription sites.

Like any good small business owner, Patchett couldn't pass up the chance to deliver an impassioned plea for supporting local stores (especially her soon - to - open bookstore, Parnassus Books).

Microsoft has not been promoting their new bookstore very well.

So a bookstore who only orders a few books from say Baker & Taylor per month, or who doesn't have a good credit rating, or who often pays late, will be sent the bottom (library) catalog.

No matter how wonderful your book might be, it won't sell itself... and it's highly unlikely for a new author's (and even many well seasoned one's) book to jump off bookstore shelves without some help.

The high visibility of your book translates to higher sales, and more profit not just for the bookstore selling your book but you as well.

If the publisher can't offer distribution services to get your book into bookstores, it's not a publisher that will serve you well.

As it happens, the time - honored ways to generate word of mouth for books that are typically available to traditional publishers — such as bookstore signings, traditional media coverage, and critical reviews — don't work as well as they used to.

A book club with regular attendance can do unknown names that are not known names per se better than libraries or bookstores that need to attract a completely new crowd every time.

Well... that's the reason most of us do not have our indie books in bookstores, it's not because of quallity of the book.

I think independent bookstores who offer more than books will survive — and if they offer used books, even better, since soon there won't be that many books in print.

I've also learned that putting books into bookstores on consignment isn't worth the time and effort: there are better, smarter, cheaper ways to sell books than to move them one by one in return for miniscule checks for a few dollars.

Indie booksellers will add your book on consignment sometimes, and LS books might look a little prettier, but I've done just as well getting Createspace books into bookstores and don't notice a huge difference in quality.

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.

«Big bookstores will not always take you if you are a self - publisher, and if they do, they will usually take a big portion of your book sale — just to have it inside of their stores [they will take] 40 percent to 50 percent,» she says, adding that she also had to figure out how to break into the schools system so that children would have better access to her book.

This obviously can be repaired with a quick firmware update, but since the bookstore that comes bundled on the reader does not sell PDF files, it is likely not in their best interest to fix this issue.

In Saudi we have Jarir Bookstore and obeikan bookstore and thankfuly they are doing well since ebooks are still not growing in there here..

So I don't know, I kind of see the kobo people as the good guys, because of their partnership with the independent bookstore, rational price... I don't like the super aggressive attitude of amazon, but again Amazon gives you the feeling that if you don't find it in Amazon, you can not find it anywhere else, which is probably true, and that is a good feeling and add to that their books are the cheapest.

Barnes and Noble has a very well designed digital bookstore that does not have a million things on the screen to detract from discovering great new titles.

The brands that survive either sell hardware with built in bookstores or offer a unique experience, such as digital note - taking (Sony Digital Paper, Remarkable, Onyx Note, and Good e-Reader 13.3) or an Android - driven experience that's not locked into a walled garden and gives the user the flexibility to install their own apps.

From my experience, to have the most successful bookstore at this point in time would be having a larger kids section, self lookup kiosks, no cafe (or at least a cafe that runs on its own payroll), and a much smaller retail space with only the best selling of each category in store with the option of having a book shipped FREE if it's not in store, and not having such a huge digital presence (nook).

I'm also one of the residents of «Podunk,» as the man eloquently called it, and not only don't have convenient access to a bookstore OR library, I happen to buy a good number of my household groceries through Amazon because I'm also pretty far from a Walmart!

I'm not a good judge of crowd size, so I'll just say that an entire floor of the bookstore was packed (not Mall - of - America - packed, but packed all the same).

One initiative which took place last week in California saw not only a surge in bookstore traffic, but in revenue as well.

According to Poynter, traditional publishing companies are better at selling books in traditional bookstores, but not in specialty shops related to a niche topic.

The reader's biggest advantage becomes immediately clear when you see that your Nook Color now has not only a Nook app, but also a Kindle app, as well as a couple of additional bookstore and reading apps.

But that wasn't the case, because the next time around I decided to self - publish a 300 - page book as a paperback and ebook, with the aim of getting into bricks and mortar bookstores as well — so a whole new set of skills and needs.

You don't have to go anywhere, or make s series of bookstore and library stops in various cities, to feel good about your traditional book promotion efforts.

When this happened with the Oasis, my theory was that Amazon was pulling the Oasis line as well so don't listen to me BUT Amazon hadn't lost 80 % of its stock price in the last 2 years, nor had it degraded its on - line bookstore.

So «getting into bookstores» isn't a super thing — it looks cool and makes you feel good for awhile, and yes it might help sell lots of books.

I'll go ahead and tell you first and foremost, if your book is a top seller at Amazon or you have a great Amazon history or sell sheet, that's great, and that's very good, but that's not important to the bookstore.

Bookstores are the obvious setting for author readings — but obvious isn't always the best.