Sentences with phrase «scaling back their book»

But major publishers, including Penguin, concerned that free downloads at the library were costing them e-book sales, have scaled back their books» availability in recent months.

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And, what we're trying to gently push back in the book is the economics of the large - scale bundled subscription model that Netflix is pursuing, [where what the] economic theory says is you can profitably make things in a bundle that wouldn't be profitable if you sold them separately.

I temporarily scaled back my consulting practice so I could focus on my new book on self - awareness.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Scale a bunch back to touch — briefly — in the «violence» book and the get «swept away» with a book just on the flood.

so hopefully, when she leaves, it'll go back down, I simply can NOT stay off the scale as they tell you to in the book.

After books were hit by UNDERS in 2014 - 15, would they continue to set high totals, or scale back?

The book, which I just happened to read on impulse back in 2006, isn't big on set pieces or large - scale storytelling.

This story, «Scaling back the Nook e-reader would be bad news for book publishers» was originally published by TechHive.

Especially since books may be getting scaled back by two pages an issue.

Before that I want to reach 100 blog posts and scale that back but write for the book the other 3 - 4 days a week.

As more and more retailers and libraries scale back their selection of books on CD, it's becoming critical for audiobook publishers to place their titles on all of the download sites.

As if to scale back from the previous year's strides, the Caldecott winner was the very classic looking The House of the Night (Wanda Gag tribute) and Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.

Now, several children's book app publishers are ramping it up for back - to - school time and hopefully the recognized educational applications of tablet computers have extended on a more widespread scale into the public school classrooms.

Publishers really have to start scaling back on Celebrity books and exploring other markets.

After going with a small independent publisher (who became ill and had to scale back in her work load going forward) for my first two books, I went back to querying agents for my next book.

Over the years, many publishing houses have been scaling back on traditional book tours — not the least because bookstores themselves are disappearing — because travel can be expensive (and time - consuming) and sometimes there can be cheaper and just as effective ways to sell books.

As we can see from the images, the eReader features ultra portable design, and ergonomic back offers a comfortable grip experience, moreover, the eReader comes with a 6 - inch high - res Pearl E-ink ClarityScreen with 1024 x 758 pixels resolution and 16 level grey scale plus a built - in front - light in order that you can enjoy your favorite books no matter in daylight or in the dark, and it also features a 1 GHz processor, WiFi, 4 GB internal storage, microSD card slot, and 11 fonts & 24 font sizes, apart from that, its rechargeable battery offers a battery life of over two months.

The show's final room recaps it all on a mammoth scale, with shelves of plants, books, heads sculpted in shea butter, and videos going back to his years at the University of Chicago.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Lawyer advertising is everywhere, to the point that is often just unnoticed noise (e.g., images of people in suits, gavels and scales of justice) thrown onto a billboard or the back of a phone book.