Sentences with phrase «so than bookstores»

Why this is changing: Libraries are actually more and more open to stocking indie books — much more so than bookstores, in general.

Why this is changing: Libraries are more and more open to stocking indie books — much more so than bookstores, in general.

Not exact matches

So if you are looking for something a bit more cerebral and involving than your average Tolkien rip - off such as Sword of Shannara and Eragon weighing down the SF / Fantasy shelves at your local bookstore, then check out Niffenegger's novel.

She knew she couldn't get into bookstores, so she would have to devise another way to get the word out about her book, Cat in the Flock — a much harder task than it would have been five or six years ago.

Comic shops are not sale or return — it's just straight sale — so they're actually MUCH more up for this sort of thing than, say, an indie bookstore, which will just bitch about not being able to return unsold books.

Of course 25 % of $ 100,000 is far more than 50 % or even 100 % of $ 100, so an author needs to consider how likely it is that they can handle each aspect of publishing their book well so that they produce a quality book that thousands of readers become aware of and can find in bookstores.

So I think some system of gatekeeping will remain in place, precisely because most people, even if they abandon bookstores, aren't going to do so for the sake of reading amateur work any more than we've abandoned our Blockbuster stores for the sake of watching amateur videos and home movieSo I think some system of gatekeeping will remain in place, precisely because most people, even if they abandon bookstores, aren't going to do so for the sake of reading amateur work any more than we've abandoned our Blockbuster stores for the sake of watching amateur videos and home movieso for the sake of reading amateur work any more than we've abandoned our Blockbuster stores for the sake of watching amateur videos and home movies.

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.)

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).

Christine — As a bookstore manager, you probably know more about what titles actually sell than that robot does, so don't take it too seriously.

It is certified with Adobe, so you can buy DRM books at other bookstores, other than the default one.

The survey of 2,045 UK book buyers found that while young people felt (or at least admitted to feeling) guiltier than older shoppers about using bookstores as showrooms, they were actually more likely to do so.

Now, the physical locations of Barnes & Noble bookstores are becoming more of a liability than an advantage; and much like Blockbuster was forced to examine its business model in the wake of NetFlix, so too is Barnes & Noble starting to recognize the forward - thinking of Amazon from behind the 8 - ball.

The book itself worked out (even with shipping costs which you don't get in the US) $ 5 cheaper than I would expect to pay in a bookstore so why would I want to buy using the traditional method?

With self - published books, which aren't typically distributed in high volume to the bookstore market, there is no pressure to sell to avoid returns, so the timeframe for success stretches over years rather than months.

So rather than finding success through a bookstore, I found success through bathrooms and living rooms,» Howey said.

There are so many who have the right to put out their work, much of which is a darn sight better than some of the efforts I regularly come accross in bookstores.

So the reality is that without co-op (and even that's no guarantee of anything), bookstore shelving is more about a personal sense of validation or ego than sales numbers.

It has an SD Card, so you can load up even more books than the Kindle and the Kobo bookstore is populated with millions of titles.

I buy a lot of my books in places other than the Sony bookstore, so an on - air connection to it is not very important to me.

The book won't be appearing on bookstore shelves, so October 14 is more symbolic than anything else.

The most important thing though (my opinion only) for Amazon is that they get their Kindle app and bookstore content to so many MORE types of devices than anyone else.

So, if I believe Amazon sells books better than publishers, and if I believe authors benefit more if books are purchased from Amazon, why would Version 4 of Outskirts Press introduce a direct bookstore for readers?

The cost per book for PoD is also going down, a few years ago, the PoD printing cost was higher than the retail cost of an offset print book, then it dropped so it was lower than the retail cost of a similar sized book, but without sufficient margin to allow you to sell to bookstores at 50 % list price (let alone deal with the returns).

The New Yorker's «Book Bench» blog points out that Assassin of Secrets lifts so many passages from other sources that the book is more of a «pastiche or collage, rather than a «novel,» as we properly understand the word» and that Q.R. Markham (the pseudonym for Quentin Rowan), who is a poet and part owner of a bookstore in Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn, may have consciously perpetrated an elaborate hoax.

So I enjoyed reading what Larry McMurtry had to say — especially knowing that it comes from a man who's owned a bookstore for more than 40 years.

Especially because so many of the people who commented on my post talked about choosing books based on bookstore recommendations and browsing physical stores rather than reading reviews online.

There's so much concern, it seems to me, about the state of publishing — bookstores closing or stocking fewer and fewer books, publishing houses not accepting new submissions, or not supporting the authors they've already signed, or offering far lower advances than they once were.

There's so much concern, it seems to me, about the state of publishing — bookstores closing or stocking fewer and fewer books, publishing houses not accepting new submissions, or not supporting the authors they've already signed, or offering far lower advances than they once -LSB-...]

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.

Some of our bigger - name authors continue to see print growth, but with so many bookstores facing financial problems, it's harder to get them to take a chance on new authors than it used to be.

Well, guess what, if these same bookstores would take time to review what their customers want and try to address those issues, if they'd hire employees who knew the stock — and this implies paying these employees a decent wage with benefits instead of hiring a store full of nothing but part - timers so they don't have to pay benefits — most readers would be more than happy to pay a bit more to buy locally.

Thus rather than pursue the POD online route to paperback production and distribution, as recommended by Data Guy, Digital Book World, ALLi and so many other authorities, novelist Anoushka Beazley beat her own path to being stocked by bookstores.

So, any sort of wholesale pricing will result in Amazon driving the price of an ebook to be less than the price required for a physical bookstore to be profitable.

So progressives like me might wring our hands over the conditions faced by Amazon's warehouse workers, but at the end of the day Amazon has more progressive titles and more progressive customers than any other bookstore.

When it launched the Kindle, Amazon began with an unbeatable combination of the 4 Cs — customer base (more online customers than any bookstore in the world), catalogue (more online titles than any bookstore in the world), connectivity (easy, seamless, free wi - fi and 3G allowing customers to download any of its Kindle titles in seconds from almost anywhere), and convenience (the bookstore environment that it began building in the mid -»90s appeared in the Kindle Store on Day One, so that every customer knew how to use it from the get - go, and it only got better).

You've made a good point that a lot of readers do browse online rather than in bookstores, so we shouldn't feel bad about our books only appearing in the former.

Since distributing e-books is so much cheaper and simpler than distributing physical books to bookstores, there are fewer barriers to entry and much easier discovery.

But if you're like the majority of the population, more people visit their local bookstore or online retailer more often than they'll visit your author website or hand you cash for a copy, so you have to consider what that exposure is worth to you and where you do that is your wholesale discount.

As a book publicist, I do hope that bookstore events thrive (and I continue to schedule bookstore events with authors) but realistically, there are fewer events — and, unfortunately, stores — than there were before, so I think it's important that we try new ways to get readers to stores.

More common than not is what's known as the «death spiral,» where subsequent books do less well, so bookstores order fewer copies of the following book.

The popular «how to» books about freelance writing that you find in the bookstores serve up a scant chapter or two on marketing freelance articles and are so poorly detailed that they leave you with more questions than answers.