It will be interesting to see whether
other booksellers take the plunge to offer a similar kind of choice to users.
Not exact matches
The film immediately begins with German
bookseller Wilfried Böse (Daniel Brühl) and fellow Revolutionary Cells member Brigitte Kuhn (Rosamund Pike)
taking over a plane traveling from Tel Aviv to Paris (by way of Athens), alongside two Palestinian terrorists, with the intention of securing the release for over 50 Palestinian «freedom fighters» locked up in Israel and four
other countries.
With the exception of Portland's Powell's (a bookstore that literally
takes up an entire city block) and
other well - known stores,
booksellers, unfortunately, are not able to compete unless they drastically cut the price of their merchandise.
In an even bolder move, Rowling published the ebooks through her own site only a few weeks ago and gave several
other online retail
booksellers the
take - it - or - leave - it deal of a lifetime:
other retailers» customers can go to their favorite online book sites to purchase the books, which diverts them to Pottermore for the sale, then the original retailers will still send the ebooks to the consumers» e-reader devices without requiring the downloading to a computer and transferring via cable that many customers have to rely on when purchasing books from sites
other than the one that markets their e-readers.
«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.
However, what this figure might reflect is that these sales have been
taken from
other booksellers, such as Waterstones or WHSmith.
An ISBN is a must - have for all books made available to the public as it is what publishers,
booksellers, internet retailers, libraries, wholesalers, distributors and
other such supply chain participants use as an identifier for a particular book when they are listing, ordering, recording sales,
taking stock and for
other related purposes.
The company's remaining 399 stores will close (though some prime locations may be
taken over by
other booksellers), and 11,000 employees will be let go.
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?
Booksellers, publishers, and authors must work together to enable accessibility features so that people with print disabilities can enjoy the vastly expanded world of books on the same terms as the rest of us.19 Already, several leading e-book purveyors have
taken steps to foster accessibility for digital books.20
Other vendors, such as Amazon, have limited their accessibility features, bowing to pressure from misguided copyright owners.
In a case of David against Goliath, three independent US bookshops are
taking on Amazon and six of the biggest publishers in America in a class - action lawsuit accusing the internet giant of creating an ebook monopoly that is destroying
other booksellers.
GLENN HOROWITZ
BOOKSELLER - «Pop Up with
Other Criteria»
takes place on the 2nd Floor of Glenn Horowitz with an Opening Reception on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m..