Sentences with phrase «on bookstore owners»

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The buzz was slightly misleading: He's a hapless, amateur pimp — a bookstore owner who impulsively decides his florist friend (John Turturro) is suave enough to help him make a little money on the side.

«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.

«Kindle for the Web makes it possible for bookstores, authors, retailers, bloggers or other website owners to offer Kindle books on their websites and earn affiliate fees for doing so,» said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content.

The codes help librarians, bookstore owners, and online retailers like Amazon categorize books and decide where to «shelve» them based on topic.

Competition from online stores like Amazon, economic trends and distribution challenges from indie authors has bookstore owners focused on their own survival.

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.

It's something else altogether when a bookstore owner rips out the pages that contain «smut» and then sells the book on her shelves with the claim that it is «clean.»

The owner might not have a copy on the shelf yet, but it might be in the bookstore online catalog.

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.

Indie bookstore owners have more latitude in choosing which books they want to sell and tend to rely on their personal gut instinct when it comes to buying books for their shelves, so approach them on an individualistic level.

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.

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

Lastly: Even if you select a Print on Demand service with connections to wholesalers, you will still need to convince bookstore owners that they should stock your book — if that's what you want.

When I got home that night, I received a message on Facebook from a local bookstore owner who wanted to carry Don't Eat Your Boogers in her store.

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.

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.

Yet according to librarians and bookstore owners, traditional labeling defines thrillers as fast - paced, realistic books that focus on plot more than character -LSB-...]

While the process in not very streamlined and certainly isn't superior to simply purchasing books on Kobo.com, it offers consumers a way to show their financial backing for business owners who are often struggling to even keep up with — let alone compete with — major chain bookstores and online entities.

«The tax on books and the closure of libraries is an attack on writers, bookstore owners, publishers, and students (who are being hit by this budget six ways to Sunday, through school closures, deep cuts to the university, threats to the tuition freeze, the loss of grants, job losses in the community colleges, and a hike in the price of already - expensive textbooks).

But if I'm a bookstore owner, why am I going to allow you to come into my shop and just put your book on my shelves?

Before your book can be displayed on bookstore shelves, your book's title has to «sell» the bookstore owners, managers, and category buyers who will order your book from the publisher in order to display it in their stores.

Since shelf space is important to bookstore owners, they want to ensure they are using it for the best return on investment, and who can blame them?

Teleread reports on the fact that REDgroup Retail, owner of 3 big bookstore chains (Borders Australia, Angus & Robertson Australia, Whitcoulls New Zealand), has been placed into voluntary administration.

When books are bought on consignment, bookstore owners don't have to care if they order slow - sellers or outright flops because almost all unsold books can be returned to the publisher, or even be destroyed, and still generate a refund or credit from the publisher.

The reason this can occur as much as it does is that a lot of authors are completely unfamiliar with how books typically get into a bookstore, and of the pressures on a bookshop owner and staff.

Kobo is running free classes for indie bookstore owners on how to profit from selling electronic books.

As I continued to meet with bookstore owners, we were being featured in magazines, national newspapers, local radio, and on TV shows.

The announcement comes after Nook's owners - US bookstore Barnes & Noble - revealed they were pulling out of the UK digital content market, and handing control over to Sainsbury's Entertainment on Demand division.

On the day I received my first box of books (cue Marty McFly moment as George opens a box full of his new novels at the end of Back To The Future), I took a copy to our local bookstore, introduced myself to the owner, and asked if they would consider stocking it.

... The requirements to deliver on the promise «to put books on shelves» included the capital to invest and specialized knowledge to turn a manuscript into inventory, a physical plant to manage the warehousing and shipping of those books, and a network of relationships with the owners of the shelves (in the bookstores) to get the right to put your books on those shelves.

They do worry what the effect will be on the independent bookstore owners and, «Will there still be a bookstore in my town if I go buy something online?»

Here's how bookstore owners and buyers see book covers on the Shelf Awareness website, a site that serves the brick - and - mortar side of book retailing.

I was talking to my used bookstore owner who happens to be the largest seller of independent / self - published books on the West Coast (I'm taking him at his word) and he basically told me that with the Kindle and with Amazon's self - publishing program, they have the power to make or break any author by including them or excluding them from their site.

It's mostly free live music, but the Kerouac - loving owner of the nearby used bookstore runs open - mic poetry night on Mondays.

Just as the used bookstore owner may have recommendations for you based on what she's sold you in the past, so too does Amazon.

I will brag about them because they are based in Portland, Oregon, they have been called one of the world's largest independent bookstores, and Michael Powell, the owner, is on the Board of Directors of my family's publishing company, which is also based in Portland.