Sentences with phrase «of big bookstores»

For a much longer time than there will be lots of big bookstores there WILL BE books sold in stores.

Most of the big bookstores require that your book is available from a distributor.

The author of Let's Get Digital and Let's Get Visible is back to reveal the inner machinations of the biggest bookstore in the world.

For many of the biggest bookstores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, readers will be able to purchase either the eBook or the printed version, whichever book format they desire — one of the benefits of making your book available on both networks.

Utilize one of the big bookstore chains.

Not exact matches

Perhaps traditional grocery stores will be forced to confront the challenge posed by big box stores and delivery companies like FreshDirect by playing up the community aspect of the shopping experience — just as some of the most successful bookstores have become more like coffee shops and community centers in order to stay in business.

Four years later, he quit his lucrative job to open Amazon.com, a virtual bookstore that became one of the internet's biggest success stories.

It would be a much better story if this bookstore was one of those big chain stores, you...

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

If your daughter, niece, or grandchild is a Barbie fan already, a title like Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer might catch your eye, but don't be deceived: as The Mary Sue reports, this book is a big a pile of sexist dreck as you're likely to find in the bookstore.

Look for big brother / big sister stories in the library or bookstore, or consider a keepsake book to let your older child keep track of the new baby's growth.

Or, if you happen to be at the Delaware beaches, check out Big Boy's favorite bookstore, Browseabout, which has a great selection of Safari toys — that's where Big Boy scored his new bath toys.

If your schedule is anything like mine, it's difficult to find the time to travel to a bookstore to hear a famous author read or to afford the price of a ticket to see a big headliner speak.

Once Amazon has been slain, the literary golden age of big box bookstores can return.

After drawing a lot of attention back when it was first announced by Viz Media, volumes one and two of Pokemon Black & White have hit comic store shelves (they were in most big chain bookstores a couple weeks back).

It seems safe to say the biggest factor of these Tokyopop cuts, past Stu Levy's often fickle - seeming management style, is the recent bankruptcy of the American bookstore chain, Borders.

But for many, the satisfaction of being in a bookstore, and having truly proved yourself in the «big leagues,» is worth it.

A recent snapshot of e-book prices found that titles in the Kindle bookstore from the five biggest publishers cost, on average, $ 10.81, while all other 2015 e-books on the site had an average price of $ 4.95, according to industry researcher Codex Group LLC.

Amazon has been making some big strides in extending its footprint outside of the U.S. with its Kindle e-readers and Kindle bookstore, but today it took a step to improve how it caters to Spanish spea

As implied by the above, the ideal Kindle purchaser is someone who blows a big portion of his or her entertainment budget in a bookstore, or who reads several supported periodicals, and isn't wedded to owning print versions.

Big publishing gets you the prestige of the brand and bookstore distribution.

I'm not a big fan of Kindle ereaders (though the Oasis2 * might * change my mind, maybe) but the Amazon bookstore and KU are great services that you can use with * any * brand of ereader.

Michael Tamblyn — CEO of Kobo told me on a few occasions that they focus on bookstores because their product seems more organic and wholesome, instead of being sold at a big box retailer, where technology is often cold and impersonal.

One of the bigger industry stories to break this past weekend was Amazon's so called retreat from traditional book publishing presumably because they can't get their author's books into bookstores.

One particular hot topic at Digital Book World 2014 was the three big problems facing book publishers today: the lack of bookshelf space at bookstores, how readers will discover new authors and books, and the rapid changing pace in the publishing industry.

If you really want to compete with the big boys, however, and have hopes of selling a lot of books, it may be worth hiring someone to handle your cover art, creating something with a professional look that you could easily imagine seeing in a brick - and - mortar bookstore.

A true resurgence in print could mean a revival of physical bookstores and a resumption of Big 5 control over the publishing industry as a whole.

Yes, an avid reader and the reason she loves her Kindle are exactly the 3 reasons you give, Anne: - big font - light - instant purchase when a book is finished without the hassle of going to a bookstore or a lending library (she has a hard time moving around — her brain is just fine, the body, well, so - so...)

I would never sign with another publisher unless they offered either a huge advance or something I wouldn't have access to as an indie, such as a promotional budget or shelf space in big bookstores, translation deal or a film deal, etc (I know film isn't handled via the publisher, but that's the kind of thing I mean — something I can't do on my own).

«I think a big part of the bookstore is building awareness of Amazon and bringing more of a human face to the brand,» said Neil Stern, senior partner at Chicago - based McMillanDoolittle.

Publishers can't get your books in bookstores or guarantee reviews by big newspapers, and although they can sometimes snag a big media blitz or spot on the Colbert Show, these appearances don't always generate a lot of sales.

One of the problems I keep seeing with big publishing is you guys stick to current models and don't look at down the road or how something could help smaller bookstores (think a POD in an indie bookstore) or with books that aren't ordered as frequently.

In the 1990s the «Big and Nasty» chains like Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books - a-Million — with their sweetheart deals with the Big 6 Publishers — put 1000s of indie bookstores out of business.

Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to chain bookstore shelves than the big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort of buzz about their books.

My audiobook producer is big into old - fashioned promo: going out into bookstores for events, doing book tie - ins, and that type of thing.

Books sold into bookstores is becoming something only reserved for the brand name authors or big, breakout books that are getting a lot of buzz.

Brian, A good point about libraries, and this expanded exposure (in addition to bookstore shelves) was one of the factors that made me decide to sell my self - published series to the big - five.

If the physical bookstores fold (probably including Barnes & Noble) and the Big Six consolidate into a Big Two - and - a-Half, where will books get the number of visual impressions needed to create bestsellers?

It also fails to take into account the fact that indie bookstores, where some of those less than best seller books could be found, were run out of the market by the influx of the big box bookstores in the 1980s and 1990s.

«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 boBig 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 bobig 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.

It is highly unlikely that the closing of the Chapters flagship bookstore in downtown Vancouver will result in any big deals.

Lots of bookstores and merchants are running online and in - store promotions that should give you a big bang for your buck!

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.

Three independent bookstores, who seem to be acting on behalf of indie bookshops everywhere, are suing Amazon and the Big Six over the DRM status of ebooks that prevents them from being shared on any e-reader device.

The big plan right now is to get the audiobook app loaded on all of the Samsung 4 Nook tablets and then launch a big marketing campaign in their bookstores.

With the number of bookstores closing, the bigger question needs to be asked.

The big sell, is that it has bleeding edge e-Ink tech, giving you over a months worth of battery life and one of the largest online bookstores in the world.

Since February 2014, Tamblyn and Aiki have led Rakuten Kobo through some significant advances: Rakuten's acquisition of OverDrive; the launch of Kobo's digital reading service in Mexico with two of the country's biggest bookstore chains, Librerias Porrúa and Gandhi; and the acquisition of the customers from Sony's eBook business and from the UK eReading service BlinkBox.

well its cool because likely this made big news within this small city, and people will likely flock to the bookstore to see what all of the fuss is about.

This is the first time that Amazon has added another bookstore to their Kindle line of e-readers and this is a very big deal.