Sentences with phrase «other booksellers did»

It isn't Amazon's problem that Barnes & Noble and other booksellers didn't climb onto the bandwagon as early as they could have when it comes to e-books and e0 - book readers.

Not exact matches

As far as bringing in other booksellers, they plan to do this in Australia and perhaps New Zealand «in a few months» time» once the system is bedded in.

It's doing that, if I understand correctly, because Amazon will no longer share information with any subsidiaries that have links to booksellers other than Amazon on their home pages.

Maybe you're a librarian or teacher doing an author study or just a fan of kidlit and want to listen to booksellers, editors, authors and other experts in the field talk about the craft and business of publishing, both of children's literature and beyond.

With Ingram, not only do you get Amazon, but thousands of other online and brick - and - mortar booksellers.

Bookstores belonging to ABA or the UK Booksellers Association often get a cut out of each digital sale, but are doing little to gain that revenue other than pushing Kobo e-readers.

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.

Amazon, Sony, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and all other major booksellers disabled the ability to buy eBooks within their apps because they did not want to give Apple a percentage of every single sale.

Do we have any indication Kobo would expand this model to favour local booksellers in other countries?

On the other hand, Amazon has always proved itself to be an opponent of «e-fairness» at every turn, has done grievous harm to communities of readers across the country by driving booksellers out of business and leaving many cities without a bookstore at all.

We're starting to do collaborations with our work with the ABA (American Booksellers Association) where we're doing local self - publishing nights with the local bookstores, bringing together the local self - publishers and having them run clinics for other aspiring self - published authors or people who are trying to get a handle on what this space is... The catalog keeps growing with new authors all the time, new languages all the time, and even as the total business grows, that percentage of self - published sales remains shockingly consistent.»

«There's a potentially bigger market in English if you did some marketing to engage with the English - language books,» explained Reidy of the process wby which booksellers are realizing their readership doesn't only buy books in the local language; she went on to explain that there are bigger considerations involved in global sales, including how to price books in other markets.

Do let me know if you know of any other online booksellers which are good for non - UK / US readers.

In order to create some buzz the Nations largest bookseller has done something radically different from other product launches, hype.

American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher said in a statement «I did want to make one thing clear: ABA member bookstores can rest assured that your trade association will continue to remind publishers and other vendors about their obligations under antitrust laws, especially regarding their need to ensure that inventory purchased under one set of terms is not commingled and transferred to another class of business.

If teens want to read about romance, adventure, fantasy or any other topic, a good librarian or bookseller can help point them toward lots of great books that don't involve blood, guts or self - mutilation.)

«In common with other booksellers, we do take a central feed of print book data from Nielsen and have approached them to see what we both might be able to do to address this industry - wide issue», he added.

We (and other booksellers) have been fighting with Barnes and Noble and Amazon to require these sellers to list the books as «used but excellent» or «used but unread» or something, and that only original publishers or their authorized agents can sell books as «new» but so far no luck... There's nothing we can do about it, we've checked.

I don't know for sure that authors would be penalized by Amazon for having book - buying links to booksellers other than Amazon on their home pages if they catch Amazon's attention — say, by having a bestselling book.

How do you differentiate yourself and your book from all of the others available via online booksellers or on bookstore shelves?

«I do not believe the bookshop is dead, economically or in any other way,» said Philip Jones, Editor of The Bookseller, in a press release.

However Waterstones» managing director James Daunt told The Bookseller at the time that the company would «judge books [from Amazon Publishing] on their individual merits», as it did with other publishers.

Call me naïve, but as a published author myself, I assumed other authors must interact with booksellers as courteously as I do.

We do this to ensure that the author's work meets certain minimum standards of quality and content and this invariably includes the reading of sample chapters available through Amazon.com and its «Look Inside» feature (or other on - line booksellers).

Sites like this, blogs and other well - trafficked sites are more likely than booksellers to do well with Google eBooks.

Yes, the big houses do have some other income sources that the POD / indie books may not, but I do agree that in general, Amazon is the # 1 bookseller today.

Everyone involved - the writers, the graphic artists, the agents, the booksellers and the readers - will all do better and fare better if we treat each other better.

Apparently, the rules still apply to electronic booksellers or any other content seller, such as a Marvel or a DC Comics, which do provide in - app purchasing mechanisms.

This is something that no other bookseller, or publisher did.

Between our highly trained customer service team, and our 40,000 booksellers, we can teach, demo, trouble - shoot and add value to the customer experience beyond what any other company in consumer electronics and digital media can do today.

So there is potentially a real case to be made that the major publishers, whether in collusion with or coercion from Amazon, Apple, and others, kept independent booksellers from selling ebooks, and used DRM protection as a cudgel with which to do it.

Putting in the title at booksellers also produced album / band results followed by the five other authors who had done the same thing before that writer did.

It certainly does not take much imagination to expand this story and its message to the entire Islamic Middle East - especially when we combine this work's portrayal of Afghanistan with the other New Orientalist works on the Islamic Middle East, such as Azar Nafisi's popular Reading Lolita in Tehran, Asne Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul, Geraldine Brooks» Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, and even scholarly works like Bernard Lewis» What Went Wrong?

In part because of its extremely poor relations with other booksellers, and in part because it's not a priority, Amazon can't do much to get its authors» titles into those physical stores.