Sentences with phrase «small bookstores in»

The foundation's building — a repurposed Masonic temple — also features one of the best small bookstores in town.

It takes place in a small bookstore in an out of the way town.

Then there was Kobo, an upstart spun out of a Canadian bookseller (Indigo), with the backing of a lot of smaller bookstores in the US, like the now defunct Borders.

Not exact matches

With a small book run professionally printed she started approaching bookstores including Barnes & Noble, which let her give talks and sell her books in its stores.

Small businesses in the retail trade industry include some quintessential examples of Main Street America: bookstores, clothing retailers, gas stations, corner bodegas and auto shops.

For example, I think we are finally starting to differentiate between local businesses (your local restaurant, coffee shop, bookstore, gas station, movie theater, clothing store, art store, or anything else that sells to your local community) from a startup business (a company that might be small, but is selling to anyone anywhere in the world).

Financing solutions from BFS Capital can help keep small businesses going and growing, from bookstores to restaurants to veterinary practices and every type of business in between.

I can see getting together in small groups in the back room of a bar, or to play chess and discuss Machiavelli, Plato, Sun Tzu, Tom Paine or The Illiad at a bookstore.

You can also try to contact leading media players and recommend your book or actually send them a copy, you can spend some small amounts of money in advertising your book on a limited number of websites, you can do direct mail advertising by contacting thousands of US bookstores and so on.

If there is a small business, family owned, who only hires Christians (say, their own family members, or friends, or if the business is in the Christian community like a Christian bookstore), then I think that religious exemptions most certainly should apply.

My great - grandmother lived in a small California desert community that didn't include bookstores.

Living in a small Midwest town in the early 2000s, we didn't have a large bookstore, and the Internet wasn't yet a huge resource for recipes.

Perhaps it was memories of that night that inspired my tears the other day, when I found myself crying in the café of a small bookstore that I ducked into out of the Edinburgh rain.

A width of 30.75» is slim for a double stroller, however, this stroller is still wider than a single stroller and it may be difficult to use in tight spaces like a subway or small bookstore.

They are generally small in size, taking place in cafés, restaurants, bookstores, or similar venues, and they are open to everyone regardless of scientific knowledge or training.

In Elgin, Illinois, Books at Sunset, a small, locally owned bookstore, sponsored a special «Kids Love a Mystery Night» for every student at Harriet Gifford Elementary School who read a mystery during Kids Love a Mystery Month.

I got on Facebook and began to search out every bookstore in the Northwest as well as every small town newspaper I could find.

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There's a small window of availability in bookstores before that title is returned and goes out of print.

While it's true that they will also distribute it to the waning number of brick - and - mortar bookstores — self - published books are not usually available in bookstores — the number that actually land on the shelves is surprisingly small.

Halff developed Weltbild from a small Catholic publisher and mail - order bookstore into the second biggest force in online book sales in Germany (presumably after Amazon), making him a major voice in industry discussion.

In many communities, in the ashes of Borders and closed B&N's — the small, local bookstore is coming bacIn many communities, in the ashes of Borders and closed B&N's — the small, local bookstore is coming bacin the ashes of Borders and closed B&N's — the small, local bookstore is coming back.

In some ways, it would be an odd pairing, since she says she loves small bookstores and worries about Amazon's effect on them too.

Just be sure to save some shopping energy for Small Business Saturday, too, because you'll be in for a treat when you shop at your local independent bookstore.

She moves from a small Tasmanian town to New York City with nothing more than $ 300 in her pocket and takes a job at a large used bookstore — becoming embroiled in a mystery surrounding a lost Melville manuscript.

My novel The Rescuer's Path came out this January, with glowing cover comments from Ursula Le Guin («exciting, physically vivid, and romantic»), Cheryl Strayed («held me from the first page to the end»), and many other noted authors whose opinions, one would think, would count with the media; yet, except a notice in Small Press Review («lyrical and poetic, the characters vividly drawn, the story captivating») and elsewhere, and mostly 5 - star Amazon reviews, media critics and bookstores will not so much as open the book.

«I'm a former librarian so I've always been a book reader and I've always been in favour of small bookstores.

He dropped out of college and moved from job to job, being a Caribbean yacht captain, doing computer repair, roofing, and finally working in a small Appalachian town as a bookstore clerk.

So in that respect, I don't say I disapprove of it but I'm a little disappointed that it may prevent other smaller bookstores from succeeding,» she said.

In the wake of Barnes & Noble's dominance of the bookstore space, smaller book retailers have suffered too.

In the last 20 years, Amy and her team have sold over 40 million books into the bookstore, library, and chain store market for small and midsized publishers.

I visited a small independent bookstore and knew going in that her business model didn't often support indie authors.

IngramSpark is the go - to distributor for Indies and small publishing houses because, unlike CreateSpace, it is not in direct competition with the bookstores and libraries that order through them, which increases the likelihood of getting a physical book onto store shelves.

So, in the name of antitrust, the level playing field of the past two years — agency model e-books were priced the same whether sold by Amazon, Barnes & Noble or independent bookstores — will likely revert to a situation where a near - monopoly power determines pricing and most other retailers see their already - smaller market share shrink.

One of the problems I keep seeing with big publishing is you guys stick to current models and don't look at down the road or how something could help smaller bookstores (think a POD in an indie bookstore) or with books that aren't ordered as frequently.

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Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and of Small Press Distribution, suggests that the difference between Amazon and brick - and - mortar bookstores is most evident in how they market books: «I think even people at Amazon would say that it's essentially a widget seller that happens to have begun by focusing on books.

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

After all, if a consumer is willing to physically stand in an independent bookstore and make the purchase on their smartphone (or on their tablet, using the store's wifi connection as they do), will simply pointing out how it harms small businesses enough?

The individual issue sales from bookstores is such a small drop in the bucket compared to what they sell in comic book stores and online.

Daunt himself owns a small chain of six independent bookshops, so he is personally familiar with the common perception of consumers who browse in a bookstore then make their purchases online.

If indie stores belong to each booksellers association, they can opt into this new program and it is in Kobo's best interest to keep the bookstores alive, whether small or large.

For curated self - published and small publisher titles, we have Kobo Next, which has been a rotated banner that appears in various different spots on the website and features a mix of well known plus lesser known authors and titles that our merchandisers feel are worthy of a second look (all divided by genre)-- much like that gorgeous table display that reflects a bookstore staff's selection:

Small bookstores have seen a rise in business with the sale of hardware and the commutative digital commissions they receive when a customer purchases a digital book.

Once you start going to more rural bookstores, in smaller markets the Nook display section lacks.

I've noticed fantasy books seem to have a small market in my country judging by the small selection of the genre bookstores here would carry.

Even when I lived in a super small town, i just visited used bookstores all the time.

A retailer can feature a supplier's items in its advertising and promotional circulars, «stack it high» in the front of the store, keep small quantities on hand in the back aisle, or not carry the item at all, and bookstores and other retailers do these every day.

From my experience, to have the most successful bookstore at this point in time would be having a larger kids section, self lookup kiosks, no cafe (or at least a cafe that runs on its own payroll), and a much smaller retail space with only the best selling of each category in store with the option of having a book shipped FREE if it's not in store, and not having such a huge digital presence (nook).

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