Not exact matches
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.
Distribution through Ingram is critical to a book's mainstream success, and the only time distribution through Ingram wouldn't matter would be if your niche were so
small that you were selling directly to your target audience rather
than conducting a book promotion campaign to drive potential buyers to
bookstores.)
I feel like I've seen less
small press show up at my favourite independant
bookstore now
than I did 10 years ago.
As a
small press author for a press I adore (Hadley Rille Books), the promotion road is hard going, as I, and my books, are viewed as «less
than» by other authors,
bookstores, and the publishing community at large.
Unless the
small press has a dedicated, exceptional sales team committed to marketing your book and getting you into
bookstores (which some do, so check carefully), they are unlikely to be able to market any more effectively
than the author can (and often less so).
The
bookstore would then get a percentage of the sale, but for Graham, e-book sales are still a very
small percentage of the store's total revenue (less
than 1 percent).
The online
bookstore set up by Entourage is much
smaller than the Amazon
bookstore in that it has on offer just about 200,000 titles but has a much better layout
than the Amazon.
This location is only 7,800 square feet, which is larger
than some independent
bookstores but much
smaller than a typical Barnes & Noble.
The 22 thousand square foot location is
smaller than the average B&N
bookstore and has a number of positive things that will make it a success.
In the past 20 years, Amy has sold more
than three million books into the
bookstore, library, and chain store markets for
small and mid-sized publishers.
They are exceptionally inviting, far more
than any other major brand in the US, and far more
than most
small bookstores.
The new stores that I referred to earlier are traditional Barnes & Noble
bookstores, which are
smaller than our current prototype.
I'd guess midlist author paper sales on
bookstore shelves are much
smaller, percentage wise,
than their ebook sales (legacy or self - pub).
Smaller than the average
bookstore, this is done on purpose: Amazon Books carries fewer options but has curated them in such a way as to introduce readers to new — but popular — books that they might never have found in the larger chains.
Smaller and independent
bookstores face the same daunting task but may have more freedom and incentive to feature unknown or local authors and books
than the large chains.
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).
As a former bookseller himself, he celebrated the launch of This Side of the River by giving 6
bookstores $ 250 grants for whatever improvements they needed... a helping hand on a little
smaller scale
than James Patterson, but doing his part!
Small bookstores are now choosing to target specific people rather
than trying to cater to everyone's needs.
To me, it seems that most (not all)
small presses have such a limited reach that it's not substantially better
than self - publishing — especially considering how much
bookstores seem to be struggling, and knowing that
small presses would have a very hard time getting placement, co-op, etc..
As for the
small and self publishers, this will open new possibilities and could potentially bring back the mom & pop
bookstores that I so dearly miss — where you could go and feel like you were more
than a «customer» making a sale.
It's a
small e-bookstore, ten times
smaller than Kindle Store and it's not growing as fast as other
bookstores.
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.