Sentences with phrase «old bookstore in»

Kevin Ryan, the co-owner of Green Apple Books, a 44 - year - old bookstore in San Francisco, says that Amazon has lowered the prices in the book business beyond his ability to match them.

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.

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.

In Madrid don't miss the Mercado de San Miguel, a recently beautifully renovated old market with an oyster bar, a juice bar, a culinary bookstore and many other treats, you'll love it.

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.

I drop things at random, including my then 2 - year - old daughter three years ago in a bookstore.

I'm a creative type who enjoys activities like photography and figure drawing, hanging around in old used bookstores, and..

While attending school in Nuremberg... Every time we used to go shopping at Politics and Prose, a bookstore near my old apartment, I would tell Josh that I wanted to work there.

Unmoored from his life and one of his senses, he takes off on a journey to New York to try and find the father he never knew, with the most minimal of compasses in tow — a bookmark directing him to an old bookstore on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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.

This plan is derailed by three occurrences: thirty - six - year - old sales representative for Knightley Press, Amelia Loman makes her first visit to Island Books to present the publisher's Winter List (and is treated rather shabbily by A.J.); A.J.'s escape valve, a rare and valuable edition of Tamerlane, a collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, is stolen; and a bright two - year - old girl named Maya is left in his bookstore.

Traditional publishers rotate books into bookstores for ninety days and then, unless a book is a hit, they rotate in new offerings and drop the old ones into their backlist catalogs.

The old model of writing a book, and having it discovered in bookstores has become a fond, but fleeting memory for authors.

This is vastly different from the old ways of thinking in publishing and how publishers still think about sales to bookstores.

And how do these Old Publishing operations expect to keep salable authors in their stables when they're unable to conduct even their own bookstore negotiations successfully?

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

My imagination started getting the best of me as I pictured my 18 year old son working in a bookstore as a summer job with the same screw driver and hopeless look as the customer either left or picked up a printed book off the shelf somewhere else in the store.

In conjunction with the new Mono e-Reader announcement, Toshiba confirmed it is changing the name of the old bookstore with Blio to BookLive!

The old method of dealing with small bookstores is in jeopardy due to the closure of so many shops and major chains like Borders.

In addition, Nook users can read any ebook in the entire catalog for free, as long as they are in the store; this model has taught Nook consumers that they still need the old fashioned bookstore, while translating into increased sales for B&N in products besides bookIn addition, Nook users can read any ebook in the entire catalog for free, as long as they are in the store; this model has taught Nook consumers that they still need the old fashioned bookstore, while translating into increased sales for B&N in products besides bookin the entire catalog for free, as long as they are in the store; this model has taught Nook consumers that they still need the old fashioned bookstore, while translating into increased sales for B&N in products besides bookin the store; this model has taught Nook consumers that they still need the old fashioned bookstore, while translating into increased sales for B&N in products besides bookin products besides books.

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.

Book Nook in Sylacauga, Alabama, so - named before the e-reader device of the same name, has maintained its hometown business by specializing in older collectible books, while Vroman's, Southern California's oldest independent bookstore, continues to attract customers coming with several author appearances a week, education classes, art exhibits, and more.

One interesting new initiative comes from a bookstore in Toronto that operates what they call the Biblio - Mat; it's a vending machine that dispenses random old books for two dollars a pop.

On a trip through Wales more than a decade ago, the border town of Hay - on - Wye — where some 30 used bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon).

Back in the old days, in Pulphouse Publishing, we paid for the two - story office complex and nineteen employees and all the expensive leather book production by getting indie bookstores and specialty stories to buy our books.

A Kickstarter campaign helped the founders to acquire the physical space and shed the old - fashioned idea of a bookstore by building it in conjunction with the technology of reading and publishing.

And when Maya, a two - year - old tot, is abandoned to him in his bookstore he is immediately smitten.

On books: «Some of my oldest memories are my father taking me for long walks in Cambridge, Massachusetts, going from bookstore to bookstore to bookstore.

With more titles being added every day by anyone with a word - processor the old way of listing the titles in the bookstore are not cutting it anymore.

Ifeanyi Menkiti, who was born in Onitsha, Nigeria, and moved to Massachusetts eventually becoming owner of the nation's oldest poetry bookstore, tours the vast literary landscape of the greater Boston area.

I often hear from writers who've picked up a two - or three - year - old market guide at a used bookstore in order to save money.

My novels won't sit stacked on some shelf in the back of a dusty old bookstore (if bookstores exist in the future), they will always be fresh and ready for download, ready to draw new readers into noir, eccentric, and illusionary worlds.

Brenna Ehrlich, a 25 - year - old blogger - turned - author, explains the advantage books have over blogs: «It's going to be in bookstores for awhile.»

As we transition from paper books to a paper + digital world (and perhaps eventually to a primarily digital book world), we'll see many changes in the centuries - old print publishing industry: bookstores will close, publishers will struggle, and new companies will step in and pick up the slack.

In 1971, he acquired the musty, failing half - century - old Barnes & Noble bookstore on Fifth Avenue and 18th Street for $ 750,000 and transformed it into «The World's Largest Bookstore,» with 150,000 textbook and trade titles.

Membership in the booksellers association has increased for two straight years after decades of decline, and independents are encouraged by the Nook because they think it demonstrates that old - fashioned bookstores, «showrooms,» remain the best way to promote books.

EY: Do you ever hunt for books in old bookstores?

In the dark old days, before I learned much about how the real world works, I would walk into a bookstore and immediately be confronted with a large table stacked high with books, and some splashy sign saying something like «New and Notable!».

Cairo's Lehnert & Landrock, a 65 - year - old German bookstore and art gallery near Tahrir Square, may be forced to close as a result of the fall off in tourists to Egypt.

Sure, a large chunk of the million is old, obscure texts that few people are interested in, but the bookstores continue to taut the sheer volume of books.

I have old dog training books that say the same silly things then as you'll find in books at the local bookstore today.

Thanks to our privileged location in the old town you are only a few steps away from restaurants, bookstores and shops.

I spent today searching old bookstores for a book of poems for a homeless man in my street.