Sentences with phrase «smaller bookstores out»

Because there are still too few smaller bookstores out there.

While Amazon works to corner the selling market, drive small bookstores out of business, hold publishers up for a larger percentage of sales, they remain untouched.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

Obviously, on the retail level there are a lot of indie bookstores closing, and with Borders going out of business, there is a lack of availability in your average small town.

There are small funds set to support independent bookstores in order to even out the concentration of bookstore locations between populous and less - populous areas.

They forgot about how the big box stores moved into the market in the 1980s and 1990s and drove most of the smaller, locally owned bookstores out of business.

They are moving into small storefronts — sort of like what they did before they were driven out of business by the big box bookstores like BN and Borders.

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.

But as the number of brick and mortar bookstores decline (and as many of the remaining ones cut author appearances), actually going out to speak at bookstores is just a small part of what you as an author can do to promote your book.

Yes, as I have said, some print market will persist but what size and shape that will have in twenty years time is anyones guess, what we DO know is that it will be smaller and because of that we'll have fewer physical bookstores, but how that shakes out we can not be sure.

Small bookstores are being shuttered, book chains are going out of business, libraries are suffering enormous budget cuts, and every publisher - and the people who work at these publishing houses - is feeling a great deal of pain and stress.

On the other hand, the large chains were not as close to their customers as the small bookstores which they were driving out of business.

There's a small chain of bookstores around here, with three large locations spaced out along about a hundred - mile corridor, plus a bunch of tiny stores at hospitals spread out even farther.

The owner of a large bookstore chain starts putting the owner of a small local bookstore out of business.

But those sales figures, limited to just the largest publishers, leave out most small presses and indie authors, and they also counts sales of physical books to bookstores rather than those sold to consumers.