Sentences with phrase «of bookstore owner»

You actually see a lot of the new generation of bookstore owners taking over, and with this new generation of bookstore owners, they're more open to trying new ideas and adapting.

Bookstores are businesses; it is the prerogative of bookstore owners and managers as to what books to order and display on their shelves.

Not exact matches

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

As of today, the Green family, the evangelical Christian owners of Hobby Lobby Creative Centers and Mardel Christian Bookstores, potentially owes the federal government $ 21.3 million in fines for defying the HHS mandate that requires all companies to provide insurance coverage for all FDA - approved prescription contraceptive drugs and devices, surgical sterilizations and abortion - inducing drugs, including «the morning after pill» and «the week after pill.»

When struggling bookstore owner Mary and Adam, a bad boy of professional hockey, are teamed together to help facilitate an image makeover for the other, they soon realize that opposites attract, and they find themselves unexpectedly frozen in love.

Even the wonderful Alfre Woodard, playing a bookstore owner and neighbor to the Gordons, can't save the cheesy integration of research from occult books and a resolution that seems like a halfhearted homage to Father Karras» sacrifice in «The Exorcist.»

The project is called «Labor of Love» and Bruce Willis will play a quiet bookstore owner who agonizes over the fact that he never properly told his wife how much he loved her before she died.

«In the game, players will take on the role of roguishly handsome Gabriel Knight, a struggling author and owner of a bookstore in New Orleans, who is investigating the Voodoo Murders for his new book: a series of savage ritual killings surrounded by voodoo trappings.

Alan Beatts, owner of San Francisco specialty bookshop Borderlands Books, announced on October 31 that he had secured enough funding to buy the building at 1373 Haight Street as a permanent home for the bookstore.

One of the reasons bookstore owners may choose not to buy and sell POD self - published books has to do with the pressure they are feeling from online sellers.

For the first time ever, bookstores, other retailers, authors, bloggers and other website owners will be able to offer Kindle books from their own sites, let their readers start enjoying the full text of these books instantly, and earn referral fees through the Amazon Associates Program for sales made through their sites.

How do you attract the interest of reporters, radio or TV show producers, groups you'd like to present to, or even bookstore owners?

As libraries and brick and mortar bookstores, both retail chain and independently owned, fight to stay relevant in the eyes of the reading public, store owners and stakeholders have had to become more creative and more unified in their efforts to entice customers to check out the local book scene.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The cantankerous owner of a small independent New England bookstore is widowed and sales are lagging but he gets a new lease on life when an exciting package arrives at his doorstep.

Even with the recent news of a local citizen in the US who launched a Kickstarter campaign to purchase her town's independent bookstore from its retiring owners, a bookstore closing due to the age and employment status of its proprietor isn't attention grabbing.

Visit your local bookstore and talk to the owner and ask him for help with selling and promoting your product, in exchange for a specific percentage of the total earnings.

Since building our publishing business Stress Free Kids in 2003, we have partnered with dozens of vendors, bookstore owners, resellers, organizations, and thousands of customers.

The key, of course, is that the bookstore owner must learn about your book through the normal trade channels.

If possible, avoid using your own name as part of the business title, because this will tip off reviewers and bookstore owners that the book is self - published.

Much of the complaining by trad publishers and bookstore owners seems to be fear of change.

Founder and CEO Stephanie Chandler is an author of several books, a professional speaker, and former bookstore owner with a unique perspective on the publishing industry.

Those are filled with books that didn't sell that the bookstore owner just wants out of the way.

In theory, bookstore owners and buyers of all shapes and sizes should be coming to this show to order books from publishers for the upcoming season.

Barnes and Noble has just unveiled a new trade in program that will allow Nook owners to drop off their older devices at any bookstore and get a $ 30 credit towards the purchase of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook.

And the Washington Post announced that 2010 will see the publication of Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford (Random House), the first in an intended three - book series that casts Jane as a vampire bookstore owner (can you hear those cash registers ringing?).

A CONVERSATION WITH SONNY BREWER Interviewer John Evans is the owner of Lemuria Books, an independent bookstore in Jackson, Mississippi.

California Bookstore Day, an idea first conceived of by store owner Pete Mulvahill and put in motion with the help of several other dedicated parties, combined the marketing efforts and attention of members of the state's independent bookstore association, and managed to garner the support of many names in publishing.

Below, Steve Guynn, the owner of Sherlock's Book Emporium in Lebanon, TN, answers questions about his 16,000 square - foot bookstore, his career and how e-books have not affected his business.

Tara tells the story of a bookstore she went into, to try to market her book, and the bookstore owner hiding in her office, refusing to come out.

The owner of Urban Bookstores, Carl Weber was one of them.

That's something that bookstore owners consistently discuss with me, is the methods of approach that independent authors and independent publishers use when they come into the stores to sell their books.

Moreover, on the tablets, you still have access to the same online bookstores and same e-books and periodicals that you do as an owner of a dedicated reader.

So now the owner of a Missouri - based independent bookstore has pondered the problem and come up with a solution.

Ingram has now given us the opportunity to have a set of 8 books this year to avail of their service wherein these books will be endorsed directly to decision makers and owners of bookstores and libraries across the globe.

Amy Thomas, owner of Pegasus bookstores in Berkeley and Oakland, laughed when asked if chain stores were still a serious threat to her business.

Today we're exploring how indie authors can get their books into indie bookstores with Suzanne Orchard, the owner of Key West Island Books, a gem of an indie bookstore in Key West, Florida.

Meet — Bea and Leah Koch — the proud owners of The Ripped Bodice bookstore.

Her childhood nemesis, Connie Graham, a reporter for the local TV news station, always seems to show up at the worst possible time, and the owner of the local bookstore, Caleb Joseph, is far too attractive and far too nosy.

In addition, compared with the general public, owners of e-reading devices who use the internet are also more likely to get recommendations from online bookstores or other websites (56 % vs. 34 %).

The 77 - year - old author and bookstore owner, who's best known for epics like Lonesome Dove, hasn't published a novel since 2009's Rhino Ranch; he's been focusing on his memoirs and an epic biography of Custer.

«Approximately sixty to seventy - five percent of the content of most chain bookstores leans toward non-fiction rather than fiction,» explains Dawn Frederick, literary agent and owner of Red Sofa Literary.

• Overall, owners of e-reading devices are more likely than all Americans 16 and older to get book recommendations from people they knew (81 % vs. 64 %) and bookstore staff (31 % vs. 23 %).

BETWEEN THE LINES Semi-retired bookstore owner Claire Malloy is back with her signature snark in this witty 20th installment of Joan Hess» series.

Pride v. Prejudice by Joan Hess «Semi-retired bookstore owner Claire Malloy is back with her signature snark in this witty 20th installment of Joan Hess» series.

Avery weaves historical fact with electrically charged narrative, creating scenarios in which Lempicka and Rafaela cavort with Sylvia Beach (owner of Shakespeare & Company, Paris» famous English bookstore), Beach's partner Adrienne Monnier (co-publisher of Joyce's Ulysses), and boxer - turned - Nazi - collaborator Violette Morris (to name a few).

When Locke struck a sweetheart distribution deal with Simon and Schuster, his books appeared in bookstores, but few owners and shoppers knew who he was; as a result, his books languished in the lower rent area on shelves at the back of stores.

The Company offers NOOK ® owners Always Free NOOK ® Support in all of its retail bookstores, as well as free Wi - Fi

The owner of Moe's Books has discovered she can sell rare and expensive or «collectible» books through Amazons web site, reaching more customers than she ever could through an exclusively local bookstore.

The article notes that sometimes the hardcover books are even cheaper than their Kindle editions, and one bookstore owner complained this was «an open declaration of war against the industry.»

You can't tell an editor how to write the interview, or tell a reviewer what to say about your book, just as you can't insist that a bookstore owner keep a poster of your event beside the register for two months.