Sentences with phrase «small used bookstore»

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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.

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.

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?

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

Kindle Direct Publishing is a self - publishing platform that individuals and small presses use to add their eBooks for sale on the Amazon bookstore.

You'd probably use them to approach small or indie bookstores, hoping they'll stock your book.

In the meantime, Google will take the energy it used to spend on letting small bookstores sell ebooks and transfer that to trying to build Google Play into the ebook powerhouse it had hoped to become when it first launched the affiliates reseller program.

Among the many reasons Stallman gives for boycotting Amazon are that the company sells ebooks and digital music that deprives customers of their rights through restrictive licensing, that the Amazon Kindle - or Swindle, as he calls it - uses proprietary software and contains backdoors through which Amazon can delete books and update software, that the company reportedly abuses its employees by making them work in sweatshops, and that it hurts independent bookstores, small publishers, and authors through its near - monopoly power.

Despite the delaying tactics large publishers have been using to slow ebook growth, it's likely that in 2011 we'll see ebooks hit a tipping point where most big box bookstores will no longer be financially viable, and will close or move to smaller locations.

Small presses, which use print - on - demand technology rather than cheap offset printing, can not afford to place your book in bookstores (because they have to pay for the high - priced ones that don't sell as well as the ones that do).

My book review operation was a success from the very beginning in terms of attracting publishers wanting to submit books for review and being able to pay any overhead expenses using review copies as a source of income by selling them to local bookstores and community libraries in Madison, Wisconsin and other surrounding small communities hereabouts.

Although I doubt I'll ever be in need of a publicist, today's post reminded me of an aspect of self - publishing and small presses that used to drive me nuts when I had my bookstore: the lack of research, about my community in general and my store in particular, before approaching me about carrying a book.

Online bookstores present an interesting challenge to a designer because the images used to represent the book online are rather small (thumbnails).

Bumbershoot Books is a smaller, very wonderful used bookstore, and then just a couple blocks further away is a small bookstore that carries new books.

VB: It used to be that writers were discouraged from doing a «small book» in the middle of a career of bigger books, because the chain bookstores — the brick and mortar stores — kept close track of sales, and low sales would hurt the prospects for a writer's future books.

If you've made the rookie mistake described above, you probably noticed that the cash you received from the campus bookstore for your gently used textbooks was only a small fraction of the price you paid up front.

The small bookstores accused the two national chains of illegally using their size to demand discounts from publishers, a move they said undermined independent booksellers» ability to compete.