Sentences with phrase «of small books stores»

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For much of the 20th century, cultural products — movies, music, books et al — were sold in small, independent stores by knowledgeable and invested staff.

As I wrote in my book 101 Secrets for your Twenties, «Newly married and living in a small apartment is no place to store a luggage set full of your baggage.

We don't use jam very often and I'm guilty of using more store - bought than homemade... fruit sweetened, of course I've got ta ask — do you have an insanely small cookie cutter to create those adorable strawberry and banana hearts?!? I'll have to check out that book, too — something else is causing trouble for me and maybe this book can help me a little.

We also sold two boxes of books, and received an in - store credit at Powell's for $ 160 — we plan on investing some of that for small collection of books for baby A.

At Powell's for Cooks & Gardeners (one of their specialty branches, on SE Hawthorne), it's one of their new, highlighted books in the front of the store, with a small staff review.

Every sport book today is computerized, Back in my day money always moved the line if a player was respected, and if the squares tossed enough money on a game most books would move the line a little, However the big books would just sit and even take layoffs from the small stores, They knew even if the squares got hot in the end the juice would eat em up.Gone are the days when Billy Walters and his crew would move the line 3 and 4 points, I'm talking sides not totals, Forget about what they did to the horseshoe with totals in the NBA, Back then you could catch small non computerized stores with bad lines to begin with, imagine a three point move and the small store or corner bookie is off on the line a few points to begin with, I could catch some game with 6 and seven point advantages, with computers today if you can catch a half or one point advantage your lucky.Even if you know the group moving the line most of these store move the lines on air, when I say air they just watch the screen from D.B. And move the line before they even get hit, Hell even the big stores have the sharps on small limits per call.

These small stores are little niches of wonder just waiting to be discovered, and by supporting them you will not only help keep a local business afloat, but you will also introduce your children to the warmth and beauty of walls lined with books, shopkeepers who can converse about every title like an old friend, and possibly even some local authors that you never even knew existed!

Put small fun snacks and a bunch of dollar store goodies, like coloring books, activity books and small toys.

Thereâ $ ™ s even a compartment in the back of the car seat to store the manual (mind blown) or you could store a small book or toy, whatever!

RIP Fred Bass, who transformed his father's small used - book store, the Strand, into a mammoth Manhattan emporium with the slogan «18 Miles of Books, and died today at his Manhattan home at the age of 89.

The fact that we increasingly store and process information externally — in books, computers and online — means that many of us can probably get by with smaller brains.

If we were to print the meal plan and bonus cook books in small batches, store them somewhere, and ship them upon receipt of an order, that would raise our costs by A LOT.

Inspired by a nightmare, Twixt — filmed in 3 - D, but never widely seen outside film festivals, and now making a belated debut on home video — drifts between the waking and sleeping hours of down - on - his - luck horror novelist Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), whose book tour takes him to the small town of Swann Valley and to a poorly attended signing held at a hardware store.

The online bookstore, offered exclusively to BooksJustBooks.com customers, helps small publishers sell books on the Internet at a fraction of the cost charged by other online stores like Amazon.

They recently opened a 21,500 square foot store is in the lower east side of the Galleria and it features a smaller footprint, a full kitchen with hot meals and patrons can drink wine while they browse around for books.

Are you telling me it's easier to go through a book store, who, by the way, carry only a small percentage of print books in print, for obvious reasons, than do a search on Amazon?

«There are so many people who buy a small number of books in a given year that the absence of a nearby store that they like can really curb how much they buy,» he said.

IngramSpark is the go - to distributor for Indies and small publishing houses because, unlike CreateSpace, it is not in direct competition with the bookstores and libraries that order through them, which increases the likelihood of getting a physical book onto store shelves.

Authors who want their books to be considered for in - store placement will be able to submit their books for review to B&N's Small Press Department and one of the company's corporate category buyers.

Nice hardware but the selection of apps and books is far smaller than US store.

Under that 1981 law, books in the country were sold at a fixed price, which was meant to protect small booksellers from the ravages of big box discount stores and retail chains that were already cropping up even then.

It is essential that retail stores adapt a stronger digital strategy instead of just hustling e-readers for a small hardware margin and digital books for longer term revenue.

Very few physical book stores would have more than a small portion of the books that I have read over the last year.

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).

Use every source you possibly can to promote your book of fiction, including the media, online web sites and small book stores that welcome an author's presence at book signings.

In the case of a short notice booking you may have better luck going to smaller independent book stores where the owner is on site.

Someone's going to be in the headquarters, they're going to decide what number of books are going to each store based on the region, and so stores themselves, when you walk into a Barnes and Noble, let's say, and you talk to that manager, they have a very small amount of wiggle room when it comes to the titles they're allowed to bring in.

In addition to selling books at its own online store with the lowest fee of any retailer listed here (15 %), the Smashwords Premium Catalog offers authors and small publishers a way to distribute their titles across a variety of retailers, including Apple's iBookstore, the Sony eBook Store, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and otstore with the lowest fee of any retailer listed here (15 %), the Smashwords Premium Catalog offers authors and small publishers a way to distribute their titles across a variety of retailers, including Apple's iBookstore, the Sony eBook Store, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and otStore, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and others.

The book sales departments «sell in» your book to the many and varied retailers who sell books — from small independent bookstores to wholesalers who supply a variety of accounts to special markets like gift stores.

While all publishers would like to have their books on the bookshelves of all the stores, the reality of small press publishing is against it.

Every store I called takes books on consignment which means they take a small percentage of each copy they sell.

On Demand has now made it possible for book sellers to roll the software license into payments in the lease agreement of the machine, making it more plausible for middle and small sized stores to manage.

Anthony Van Alphen of Reads Books in Carleton Place, Ont., a member of the CBA tech committee, was the first to test it out from a small indie store perspective.»

The mall was a small strip of discount clothing shops, a used - book store, a dentist who advertised «family prices» in Spanish, and a Cuban restaurant, all of which had been evacuated before Riggio approached the bomb.

He had lived in an apartment with books touching the ceilings, and rugs thick enough to hide dice; then in a room and a half with dirt floors; on forest floors, under unconcerned stars; under the floorboards of a Christian who, half a world and three - quarters of a century away, would have a tree planted to commemorate his righteousness; in a hole for so many days his knees would never wholly unbend; among Gypsies and partisans and half - decent Poles; in transit, refugee, and displaced persons camps; on a boat with a bottle with a boat that an insomniac agnostic had miraculously constructed inside it; on the other side of an ocean he would never wholly cross; above half a dozen grocery stores he killed himself fixing up and selling for small profits; beside a woman who rechecked the locks until she broke them, and died of old age at forty - two...

According to its company reports, China Literature has more books than the Kindle Store (8.4 million v. 6.9 million) but a smaller number of writers (5.3 million v. 14 million).

Now, small town libraries and stores sell copies of the book, but it sells very well on Amazon.»

While I am a fan of small businesses and the independent book store, I'm a bigger fan of book writing and book reading — and the free market.

It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to surmise that print books are on their way to becoming a niche market where smaller stores capable of catering to local tastes can survive; even thrive, but big chains can't be sustained.

There are a lot of deserving books amongst the 725,000 in the Kindle Store and a Top 100 Bestsellers List is ludicrously small.

Mass market books, the smaller 4 - inch - by -7-inch genre books typically sold in drug stores, used to be a primary point of entry for new authors before the introduction of e-books.

Kindle WiFi and Kindle 3 — much lower price ($ 139 vs $ 179, $ 189 vs $ 229), better battery life, much better store (book range and price), wireless support and browser, 60 second downloads, infrastructure, Kindle App Store, Text to Speech, Accessibility, and lots of small thstore (book range and price), wireless support and browser, 60 second downloads, infrastructure, Kindle App Store, Text to Speech, Accessibility, and lots of small thStore, Text to Speech, Accessibility, and lots of small things.

Instead I want to describe three of the more common ways that small or mid-sized publishers can put books into the store.

Years ago, when I had a small publishing company I had a distributor, sold through the big wholesalers and did business with lots of book stores.

The same way that the small book store on the corner has been put out of business by the big book sellers, the market has shifted again.

Publishers won't allow it (take a look at B&N's store sometime, and note the very small number of books that you can share, even with the crippled Nook sharing scheme).

And, as much as I like their team, I think this is a time for us to say back, «Great, we love that you're so focused on books and our community, and because you are, we think you should handle something like this a little less like a store de-listing P&G and a little more like the network of small - business authors these books / products represent.»

Comic book stores are small businesses — and most small businesses are perpetually on the edge, almost certainly with average pre-tax profits of under 10 %.

Although I doubt I'll ever be in need of a publicist, today's post reminded me of an aspect of self - publishing and small presses that used to drive me nuts when I had my bookstore: the lack of research, about my community in general and my store in particular, before approaching me about carrying a book.

One of the advantages of being in the Kindle store is that the number of competing books is smaller, which can give you an edge in getting found.