Sentences with phrase «then as a bookseller»

I was curious as an avid reader, then as a bookseller, and now as an author.

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But no online bookseller gives away the entire book, with the exception of Amazon as a sales gimmick and even then, they only do it for a limited amount of time and they charge the author rather than the reader by demanding exclusivity for 90 days,

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Under this model, if heavy readers transition to subscription then the model breaks: as Morten Strunge, c.e.o of the Copenhagen - based subscriptions business Mofibo, told The Bookseller back in March, the key to success is to get enough customers who read occasionally or very seldomly.

The company sets up an event — a reading, a book - signing — supplies the books, and the bookseller then sells as many copies as possible.

AmazonCrossing will acquire the rights and translate the books and then introduce them to the English - speaking market through multiple channels and formats, such as the Amazon Books Store, Amazon Kindle Store, and national and independent booksellers via third - party wholesalers.

If independent booksellers did half as much as what AMZN does for authors (not to mention buyers), THEN they can whine about linking my books to my favorite 100 ton gorilla.

Might as well face doom on your own terms and for your own flaws rather than because your publisher made you add twinkly vegan vampires playing Quidditch to «make it more salable» — and then effectively told booksellers to ignore the book.

I fully entered the world of books in the early 1970s via book publishing, first as a bookseller, then as a traveling book sales rep, and then as a publisher.

And then there's the fact that many people here don't view Amazon as a bookseller at all because many people using Amazon don't buy books; it sells vast numbers of things to vast numbers of people, but buying books is fairly small fry.

«If the books can't be found in the catalogue — where every traditional publisher from Abrams to Simon & Schuster list their titles — then they may as well be invisible to bricks - and - mortar booksellers,» IndieReader's Amy Edelman says.

I first started in the book trade as a bookseller and then enjoyed a twenty five year career in general trade publishing, mostly working in international sales and marketing, later becoming a board director at a major British publishing house.

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No fool she, Friedman, who with Harry Bingham mounted a fine author survey led by The Bookseller earlier this year, goes right to those guys at the zoo — «It's the old parable about blind men trying to describe an elephant» (drink)-- and she then points, as must we all, to that other large animal in the room:

While the Firefly function is one more likely to alarm bricks and mortar booksellers because it allows users to scan the bar codes or QR codes of items such as books, films, songs and artwork and then find them on the Amazon online shop.

The practice known as showrooming — where customers discover items in bricks and mortar shops, only top then look them up and buy them online for cheaper, is one of the biggest threats to UK booksellers, with 63.5 % admitting to the behavior according to a study last year.

And then they wonder why they have trouble making themselves understood, getting on the same wave length as booksellers and libraries.