Sentences with phrase «time going to a bookstore»

The next time you go to a bookstore, look at the authors with several titles, and the branding they use.

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Bookstores are just the first to go,» Bill Streur, Book World's owner, tells The New York Times.

Does anyone else ever go into a bookstore and feel overcome with sadness because there are simply too many good books and so little time to be alive?

I grew up in a family who loved going to the bookstore together, recieved books for Christmas, and spent down time reading.

Long gone are the times when bookstores used to carry just books.

While attending school in Nuremberg... Every time we used to go shopping at Politics and Prose, a bookstore near my old apartment, I would tell Josh that I wanted to work there.

Unless a book has incredible advance sales or the author is very well known (and many times not even then) bookstores are not going to contact an author to do a book event.

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This is another book I'd been meaning to read for a long time, and when I came across a signed paperback copy at a bookstore in Brooklyn, I decided to go for it.

If it is 10 pm and you are at home, you may have to wait to scratch that literary itch until the next day, possibly after work or class, and still make the time to go to the bookstore to buy it.

Yes, an avid reader and the reason she loves her Kindle are exactly the 3 reasons you give, Anne: - big font - light - instant purchase when a book is finished without the hassle of going to a bookstore or a lending library (she has a hard time moving around — her brain is just fine, the body, well, so - so...)

When you think of book discovery in the past, it normally involved going to your local bookstore and seeing what they were promoting, in other cases you may consult a newspaper such as the New York Times.

Several years ago I went to a local indie bookstore which, according to the Kobo website at the time, sold Kobo readers.

But paper books are alive and well, and indie pubbing writers who are on the ball and paying attention to the industry are selling them — online, yes, but also here and there in bookstores, more and more as time goes on.

, where ebook sales have stagnated, where bookstores are on the verge of extinction, where wholesalers and distributors are disappearing all the time, and where the major publishers focus on celebrities alone, selling books is no longer the way to go.

So, without the stupidity of going to fifteen different cities and trying to do signings and sending useless bookmarks to five hundred stores or doing blog tours that take weeks of time and get you no readers, I'm going to try to describe some ways to promote and push your indie - published books to readers and bookstores in a sane manner.

Good luck with the cleaning cats... Like you, I have a houseful of books, a library I haven't got time to go into, and used bookstores are always a passion.

I started up a little, part - time, used bookstore on the internet and for a couple of years, business was okay, but what I found as I tried to stock up on inventory was that it was not fun going to used book sales and stepping over other book sellers blocking the aisles with their hand - held scanners and boxes of «don't touch these, their mine» used books.

Over time, it is going to be harder for bookstores to survive, but they won't disappear like video or record stores.

If some period of time passes and still no traffic goes to your page, Amazon may move it to «Temporarily out of stock»... the online equivalent of walking into your local bookstore and asking them to order a title for you.

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The steps were outlined in a post by GalleyCat that told users how to go about supporting indie authors and their locally owned bookstores at the same time.

Every time I go to a shopping mall, I always head to the bookstore first before going to any other store.

And yet somehow, I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning and find that a story I wrote while working as a bookseller — a story that blossomed into a novel one serialized piece at a time — is now being released into bookstores far and wide.

* sigh * So once again, no book haul in this post — not because I didn't get anything (I may not have time to go to an actual bookstore, but you wouldn't believe how many emails about Kindle sales I get!)

Interface issues such as these may go away with updates over time, but right now they make the Libre Touch a poor competitor to other readers offering wireless access to Web bookstores.

Also, it's wonderful to have an author who's willing to spend some of their own time marketing the book by going to bookstores and introducing themselves or surfing the Internet for websites where we could promote the book.

And I must admit I buy some of my print books from Amazon, because I live 1/2 hour away from the nearest bookstore, and I can't always justify the time and gas to go to the store.

I don't go to a bookstore super often, but I do go to my local supermarket usually several times a week.

And one of the first things I noticed when I went to explore the local Christian bookstore for the first time was the plethora of novels with young girls on the cover wearing goofy looking hats... Call me crazy, but what gives with all the prairie romances???

Places like bookstores that do indie author events all the time are a go - to.

All it will cost you is the price of an ISBN to get you listed in Books in Print and a little bit of time to go make friends with your local bookstore employees.

This creature, he goes on to argue, set the goal of building a bookstore as dramatic in scope as the Library of Alexandria; such a goal seems «puny» compared to what Amazon today actually is, a technological and logistical marvel that can deliver books to your phone in the time it takes to yawn.

Next time you go into a bookstore, consider the warehouses one would need to store the manuscripts that never got a chance.

Isn't going to a bookstore less convenient than clicking a mouse a couple of times?

The first time I published, I went with Ingram Spark because I heard it would be easier to get into bookstores and libraries.

When I was most miserable in my job, I would go to the bookstore at lunchtime and indulge in retail therapy to escape my life for a time.

He was referring not to professional reviewers for outlets like the New York Times but citizen reviewers with a role similar to «the role that booksellers used to take... if we're forced into a situation where physical bookstores are going away, then we have to have these people who are help us sell our books.»

I've been on bookstore shelves on consignment but decided it wasn't worth the gas and time to go around restocking.

I had gone to a Russian bookstore in L.A., right across from where I was having a solo show at the time [«Used & New» at LTD Los Angeles] and I found all of these postcards.

This was in the days before Amazon.com so I would have needed to have gone to some bookstores, find a good book or two for first - time home buyers and taken the time to read and study it.