Sentences with phrase «working as a bookseller»

(Incidentally, I work as a bookseller, and Super Natural Cooking was my very first staff recommendation.

After working as a bookseller for some years, he traveled around America and India by train, before becoming a writer.

Previously, she worked as a bookseller for Waldenbooks, and also for Forbidden Planet, the retail division of London's Titan Books.

Kevin J. Bartolotta lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a bookseller.

Alongside her work as a bookseller, she writes novels for adults.

She works as a bookseller at Brooklyn's BookCourt, and wants to talk to you about baked goods on Twitter @emmastraub.

After working as a bookseller for some years, he traveled around America and... (more)

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.

He has run his own agency, the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, since 1988 having previously been a director of Curtis Brown and worked as a bookseller, journalist and publisher.

When I worked as a bookseller, we paid publishers roughly 55 % of the retail price of their books.

He wrote during his lunch breaks while working as a bookseller at Barnes & Noble.

«I've worked as a bookseller, and no bookseller has ever had to make a promise at the cash register: «Here's your books.

Those seeking to work as Booksellers should emphasize in their resumes literature general knowledge, sales orientation, strong communication skills, and organization.

What has been your work as a bookseller in the past?

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS • Over five years of experience working as a Bookseller at Nirvana Books • Proficient in serving customers by providing them relevant information about location of books and offering appropriate advice • In depth knowledge of books and authors and maintaining commercial awareness activities • Hands on experience in liaising with external groups like schools and companies to promote text books

Not exact matches

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

Kara Wuest has worked as a bagel baker, dishwasher, bike mechanic, bookseller, production coordinator & managing editor.

Launched in September 2014, The Pigeonhole has been nominated for the Digital Innovation Awards at the London Book Fair, Future Book's Digital Campaign of the Year for its work promoting Ken Follett's A Column of Fire, and its founding editor Anna Jean Hughes was named as a Rising Star of the publishing industry by The Bookseller magazine.

We were the ones — as booksellers — who worked to please the readers.

After working her way through college as a bookseller and earning a BS in Criminal Justice (with minors in English and Anthropology), Becky was accepted into the Denver Publishing Institute, one of a handful of graduate - level programs offering a crash course in publishing.

As written up by The Bookseller staff, the arrangement is expected to take some 200 titles into Kindle editions, works by Curtis Brown clients including Tony Parsons, Adele Parks, Colin Bateman, Emily Barr and Rosie Goodwin, per the Bookseller story.

The day was filled with provocative observations from innovative publishers, an author or two, and even retailers — as in Miriam Robinson's announcement that The Bookseller, itself, will work with Foyles in a February workshop to formulate plans for a 40,000 - square - foot «bookshop of the future.»

Organized by Indies First, more than 1,000 authors will be working as guest booksellers at locally owned shops across the country.

Trade review publications are read by booksellers, librarians, and others who work inside the book industry (as opposed to consumers); two of the most well - known are Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.

«A writer's work has value and should be paid for» As our #FutureChat recap comes to the ether, my Bookseller colleague Philip Jones, inCornerstone in joint venture with Unbound, is reporting that the UK's Penguin Random House imprint Cornerstone will take over publishing trade editions of books crowdfunded on the Unbound platform.

She also worked as a children's librarian and bookseller, and remembers still the satisfaction of putting just the right book into a child's (or teenager's) hands.

As companies like Amazon announce same - day delivery in the UK, Sunday delivery, and more, booksellers have been feeling the pinch as consumers click - to - buy and find their packages waiting for them after worAs companies like Amazon announce same - day delivery in the UK, Sunday delivery, and more, booksellers have been feeling the pinch as consumers click - to - buy and find their packages waiting for them after woras consumers click - to - buy and find their packages waiting for them after work.

Lesley - Anne Alexander, c.e.o. of RNIB, told the Bookseller that: «We want publishers to work with us so that blind and partially sighted people can read the same books at the same time as everyone else including all of the new exciting titles that are just hitting the shelves.

As brick - and - mortar bookstores struggle to carve out their own unique niches in a market overrun by discounted online book buying opportunities, the UK - based Booksellers Association is hard at work helping their shop owners keep up.

We're starting to do collaborations with our work with the ABA (American Booksellers Association) where we're doing local self - publishing nights with the local bookstores, bringing together the local self - publishers and having them run clinics for other aspiring self - published authors or people who are trying to get a handle on what this space is... The catalog keeps growing with new authors all the time, new languages all the time, and even as the total business grows, that percentage of self - published sales remains shockingly consistent.»

Online bookseller Bookline.hu and Libri have teamed up to give consumers convenience and choice, while still working to not serve as competition for each other given their vastly different functions.

A former president of the Canadian Booksellers Association, and a previous board member of BookNet Canada, Mark's experience in the publishing and bookselling industry spans more than three decades where he has worked at almost every type of brick and mortar, online and digital bookstore.He thrives on innovation, particularly in relation to digital publishing opportunities, and has run a successful POD business as well as his own publishing and digital consulting business (Stark Publishing).

She's worked in a variety of roles in the publishing industry: bookseller, former assistant editor for a Philadelphia Stories, and as a content project manager and acquisitions editor in the healthcare education and reference publishing sector.

For book publishers, the relevant market isn't readers (direct sales are few), but booksellers, and Amazon has firm control of bookselling's online future as it works to undermine bookselling's remaining brick - and - mortar infrastructure.

All of these processes work toward the «launch» of the book into the marketplace, and many (sales, publicity, marketing) continue afterward as well to help «sell through» the book — that is, get it out of the bookseller's hands and into the hands of the consumer.

«As consumers and booksellers continue to embrace the potential of e-books, we are very happy to be working with The Wall Street Journal to produce the most accurate best - seller charts available,» Jonathan Stolper, vice president and general manager of Nielsen BookScan, said in a statement.

Despite its founding in 1903, the shops have worked to stay ahead of the trends in the market, and recently announced at the FutureBook event that it would be building a 40,000 square foot flagship store, even going so far as to invite industry professionals to work with the bookseller in order to make it the most dynamic and book - focused location possible.

He has worked in the publishing industry as a children's bookseller, community manager at a literary development company, and book reviewer of children's and young adult novels.

He has worked as a manual laborer, is trained as a librarian, spent twelve years as a bookseller, and was a translator and literary critic before becoming a full - time writer.

ORNA ROSS TO SPEAK AT FIRST FUTUREBOOK AUTHOR DAY The Bookseller Author Day welcomes both independent and traditionally published authors, as well as figures in the industry who work with them.

Here is a brief biography of the authors: Liliane Korb Born in 1940, Liliane initially worked as chief editor before becoming a bookseller.

Barnes & Noble buyout may be in the works, as the bookseller's founder and CEO has said he is going to try and buy the company's retail business.

He has also worked as a digital bookseller for ebook startup Zola Books where he was the head of product for the ecommerce and ebook apps.

She was head of audience development at HarperCollins for three and a half years, and previous to that worked at The Bookseller as head of events and marketing.

Believe it or not, I'm working on my contact lists this summer as well as making the rounds to my favorite librarians and booksellers in anticipation of my upcoming PB release.

It's worth noting that reports of Nosy Crow's new partnership with the National Trust for a range of important new releases — announced by Kate Wilson and Katie Bond at The Bookseller's conference, and covered by our Charlotte Eyre — is a major list of traditionally produced works, not (at least as described in coverage) new titles in Nosy Crow's trademark app division.

To work together, not as antagonists The Bookseller's Author Day conference opened this year's FutureBook Week on Monday (30th November).

Amazon already worked with virtually all the world's publishers as a bookseller, so it was able to make huge numbers of titles available for Kindle in electronic format — over 88,000 books were available on the launch date.

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This is interesting because, unless I'm missing it, the Booksellers Association (its US counterpart is the American Booksellers Association) has had nothing to say about urgently considering the thousands of upright, hardworking independent booksellers — we call them authors here at Writer Unboxed — whose work vanished this week as Kobo struggled to clean its lists of offendinBooksellers Association (its US counterpart is the American Booksellers Association) has had nothing to say about urgently considering the thousands of upright, hardworking independent booksellers — we call them authors here at Writer Unboxed — whose work vanished this week as Kobo struggled to clean its lists of offendinBooksellers Association) has had nothing to say about urgently considering the thousands of upright, hardworking independent booksellers — we call them authors here at Writer Unboxed — whose work vanished this week as Kobo struggled to clean its lists of offendinbooksellers — we call them authors here at Writer Unboxed — whose work vanished this week as Kobo struggled to clean its lists of offending material.