Sentences with phrase «with bookstore owners»

As I continued to meet with bookstore owners, we were being featured in magazines, national newspapers, local radio, and on TV shows.

Your book should come up in conversation more with the bookstore owner, who already knows you, as opposed to you pitching the book to them.

Not exact matches

The current owner, who opened the bookstores in the mid 1970s with help from her sister, has built up an inventory worth $ 83,000 and a loyal customer base.

A cartoon published after the world did not end in September 1988 shows a bookstore owner replacing a sign that says, «The book that proves Christ will return in September 1988» with a new one that says, «The book that proves Christ will return retroactive to September 1988.»

Characters like Mike (Joseph Gilgun), Gethin (Andrew Scott), a bookstore owner, and Jonathan (Dominic West), an actor get together with Steph (Faye Marsay), who is the only lesbian in the club.

One of the reasons bookstore owners may choose not to buy and sell POD self - published books has to do with the pressure they are feeling from online sellers.

The Benjamin Franklin Book Awards are administered by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) with help from over 150 publishing professionals, including librarians, bookstore owners, reviewers, designers and editors.

Even with the recent news of a local citizen in the US who launched a Kickstarter campaign to purchase her town's independent bookstore from its retiring owners, a bookstore closing due to the age and employment status of its proprietor isn't attention grabbing.

It's something else altogether when a bookstore owner rips out the pages that contain «smut» and then sells the book on her shelves with the claim that it is «clean.»

Visit your local bookstore and talk to the owner and ask him for help with selling and promoting your product, in exchange for a specific percentage of the total earnings.

Since building our publishing business Stress Free Kids in 2003, we have partnered with dozens of vendors, bookstore owners, resellers, organizations, and thousands of customers.

Founder and CEO Stephanie Chandler is an author of several books, a professional speaker, and former bookstore owner with a unique perspective on the publishing industry.

As for the locally owned bookstores, if you have a really good relationship with the store owner or purchasing agent, you might be able to get your book in if you use Lightning Source but that is still a long shot.

Those are filled with books that didn't sell that the bookstore owner just wants out of the way.

A CONVERSATION WITH SONNY BREWER Interviewer John Evans is the owner of Lemuria Books, an independent bookstore in Jackson, Mississippi.

California Bookstore Day, an idea first conceived of by store owner Pete Mulvahill and put in motion with the help of several other dedicated parties, combined the marketing efforts and attention of members of the state's independent bookstore association, and managed to garner the support of many names in publishing.

That's something that bookstore owners consistently discuss with me, is the methods of approach that independent authors and independent publishers use when they come into the stores to sell their books.

You actually see a lot of the new generation of bookstore owners taking over, and with this new generation of bookstore owners, they're more open to trying new ideas and adapting.

So now the owner of a Missouri - based independent bookstore has pondered the problem and come up with a solution.

Today we're exploring how indie authors can get their books into indie bookstores with Suzanne Orchard, the owner of Key West Island Books, a gem of an indie bookstore in Key West, Florida.

Lastly: Even if you select a Print on Demand service with connections to wholesalers, you will still need to convince bookstore owners that they should stock your book — if that's what you want.

In addition, compared with the general public, owners of e-reading devices who use the internet are also more likely to get recommendations from online bookstores or other websites (56 % vs. 34 %).

BETWEEN THE LINES Semi-retired bookstore owner Claire Malloy is back with her signature snark in this witty 20th installment of Joan Hess» series.

Pride v. Prejudice by Joan Hess «Semi-retired bookstore owner Claire Malloy is back with her signature snark in this witty 20th installment of Joan Hess» series.

Avery weaves historical fact with electrically charged narrative, creating scenarios in which Lempicka and Rafaela cavort with Sylvia Beach (owner of Shakespeare & Company, Paris» famous English bookstore), Beach's partner Adrienne Monnier (co-publisher of Joyce's Ulysses), and boxer - turned - Nazi - collaborator Violette Morris (to name a few).

When Locke struck a sweetheart distribution deal with Simon and Schuster, his books appeared in bookstores, but few owners and shoppers knew who he was; as a result, his books languished in the lower rent area on shelves at the back of stores.

Before teaming up with a local bookstore to sell your book, make sure you meet the bookstore's requirements before meeting with the owner.

A bookstore owner wants to make sure your book aligns with their customers.

While the process in not very streamlined and certainly isn't superior to simply purchasing books on Kobo.com, it offers consumers a way to show their financial backing for business owners who are often struggling to even keep up with — let alone compete with — major chain bookstores and online entities.

The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards ™ are administered by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) with help from over 150 publishing professionals, including librarians, bookstore owners, reviewers, designers and editors.

The new NPR Morning Edition book club wrapped up today with a discussion of the first selection, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar (Macmillan / FSG; Macmillan Audio; OverDrive Sample; Oct), picked in December by bookstore owner and author Ann Patchett.

It could be their editor, agent, or publicist; other writers and peers who helped provide guidance or make introductions; bookstore owners, librarians, and reviewers who spread the word; or the readers themselves who didn't just buy the book, but connected with the author, each other, and helped turn the book into a conversation.

If indie bookstores and website owners keep coming up with innovative ideas, there's a possibility they will end up playing a big part in the eBook Wars.

Top 900 Independent Bookstores — This database features 900 stores with address, book buyer, owner, event coordinator, phone, fax, email, website, and more!

The awards are administered by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), with help from over 150 book publishing professionals including librarians, bookstore owners, reviewers, designers, publicity managers, and editors.

A former brick and mortar bookstore owner, Stephanie Chandler has always known she wanted to work with books.

The reason this can occur as much as it does is that a lot of authors are completely unfamiliar with how books typically get into a bookstore, and of the pressures on a bookshop owner and staff.

... The requirements to deliver on the promise «to put books on shelves» included the capital to invest and specialized knowledge to turn a manuscript into inventory, a physical plant to manage the warehousing and shipping of those books, and a network of relationships with the owners of the shelves (in the bookstores) to get the right to put your books on those shelves.

But with our small press book what we did was become active with independent bookstore owners and managers of chains around us.

I was talking to my used bookstore owner who happens to be the largest seller of independent / self - published books on the West Coast (I'm taking him at his word) and he basically told me that with the Kindle and with Amazon's self - publishing program, they have the power to make or break any author by including them or excluding them from their site.

Under the First Sale doctrine, once a copy is sold by the rights - holder (e.g. the publisher, initially to the bookstore or distributor), that owner can do whatever it wants with that specific copy, including reading or re-selling (and anying thereafter can likewise).

Restraint of trade: In a Quebec Court decision, a bookstore leased a spot in a shopping centre with a clause inserted in the lease that the owner of centre would not lease any space to any tenant whose principal use would be the sale of books.