(1) The cash-strapped HMV retail chain clinched a deal on Friday to sell its Waterstone's bookshops to the Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53m.
(2) The tented village around St Paul's – 200 canvas homes and counting – has acquired an increasingly permanent feel, and now boasts a bookshop, information centre and a prayer room.
(3) Photograph: Rozena Crossman Despite its small size, the café has a lighter and more modern atmosphere than the cramped bookshop next door, a famous hub for influential writers.
(4) Franklin returned the Sony Reader, for ebooks, he was given by Random House, preferring to read submissions on paper, and while he thinks Apple and its competitors will "probably conquer the world eventually", for the moment he is more worried about how to keep bookshops afloat.
(5) The important thing about radical bookshops is that they were more than just places that sold commodities, they were centres for activists, they held events, they encouraged people."
(6) +30 21 0896 2237, limnivouliagmenis.gr ID5587998 Gazarte A venue that blends live music with a cinema, bar-restaurant and bookshop.
(7) Hatem Ben Arfa has cancelled his planned meet and greet session with Newcastle United fans at a city centre bookshop on Tuesday night after being warned it could be counterproductive to his hopes of first-team football at St James’s Park.
(8) And to make your conscience even clearer, a percentage of every purchase goes back to local independent bookshops, helping them to survive in the scary era of all-online shopping.
(9) In Henley, he encountered with interest the bookshop-owning lesbians who had taken opium with Cocteau, and a prim, elderly lady who had, in her youth, urinated regularly upon pioneering sexologist Havelock Ellis.
(10) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
(11) The winners of all three Edinburgh comedy awards (best show, best newcomer, panel prize) performed at non-big four venues (the Stand, the Voodoo Rooms on the Free Fringe and Bob's Bookshop).
(12) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
(13) Leftover food from the café is given to the “Tumbleweeds”, the bookshop’s resident writers.
(14) A note on the text The first edition of Dracula appeared in bookshops on 26 May 1897, price six shillings, in a print run (from the publishers Archibald Constable and Co) of some 3,000 copies bound in plain yellow cloth with the one-word title in simple red lettering.
(15) Joe’s Garage , a tiny eclectic record and bookshop on Westbourne Road, is a place to meet random characters and to flip through vinyls.
(16) "It is a great idea … and could be massively important thing for independent bookshops."
(17) He was apprentice to a furniture maker, a carpenter’s mate and a bookshop assistant before undertaking his national service in the RAF (1950-52).
(18) The UK bookshop chain Borders was placed in administration today, raising doubts over 1,150 jobs.
(19) It is available from the Guardian bookshop, priced £14.44 including free UK p&p .
(20) And unable to compete on price, the sector of the market that will "lose out in the long term is the independent bookshop," believes the novelist.
Bookstore
Definition:
(n.) A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
Example Sentences:
(1) A prominent Mexican journalist and her publisher, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, are being sued in an attempt to force them to remove a bombshell political investigation from the country’s bookstores.
(2) CBS, which says it stumbled across its advance copy in a bookstore, happens to own the book's publisher, Simon & Schuster.
(3) Whatever challenges he then sees facing the legacy industry (no bookstores!
(4) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
(5) The Romney Family Table is available online and in bookstores now, and could serve as the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes Mitt Romney, or likes seeing pictures of someone else's happy, gorgeous family, or simply is determined to ensure that the Romneys don't just dissolve into obscurity.
(6) If you don't feel like that – if what you're really saying is you want to see your book on a shelf in a bookstore – then just forget it, and do something else."
(7) That prompted HarperCollins to swiftly halt the book's publication – but not before a number of copies had been passed to retailers, including Amazon.co.uk and high street bookstores.
(8) Pearson has acquired a 5% stake in Nook Media – a new company that houses Barnes & Noble's e-reader and tablet operations, digital bookstore and 674 college bookstores in the USA – for $89.5m.
(9) It is now No 1 on Amazon's bestseller list and sold out in many bookstores.
(10) None of the money sloshing around the city trickled down to preserve the centre for homeless youth that closed in 2013, or the oldest black-owned black-focused bookstore in the country, which closed in 2014, or San Francisco’s last lesbian bar, which folded in 2015, or the African Orthodox Church of St John Coltrane, which is now facing eviction from the home it found after an earlier eviction during the late-1990s dotcom boom.
(11) Before, publishers had sold digital rights, mostly to Amazon, as it was by far the biggest online retailer, based on the wholesale model that physical bookstores have used: Amazon (et al) would pay a percentage of the retail price, and then was free to set its own price for the retail sale.
(12) (Her mother once stood at the back of a bookstore after a reading and made frantic gestures at Flynn when a member of the audience asked whether she came from a bad family.)
(13) This dispute started because Amazon is seeking a lot more profit and even more market share, at the expense of authors, bricks and mortar bookstores, and ourselves.
(14) New banking facilities totalling £220m were agreed following a deal last month to sell HMV's Waterstone's bookstore division for £53m to Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut.
(15) During the months of August and September 1987, each student union director and bookstore manager from the 28 public universities in California (combined enrollment almost 500,000) were asked to complete a 75-item questionnaire on campus condom distribution.
(16) Because what's happening to bookstores – and to the publishing business overall – isn't Amazon; it's technology.
(17) The popular Wangfujing bookstore has pulled Chinese versions of Haruki Murakami's bestseller 1Q84 , as well as other Japanese authors' titles, said the Japan Times .
(18) Two thirds of the campuses reported having condoms for sale in either their bookstores or convenience stores; one third said condoms were available in the men's and women's restrooms in their student unions.
(19) The association said the banners have been shared by hundreds of shops , quoting Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, Vermont, which wrote: "Can you imagine if your local bookstore intentionally delayed selling you books just because we were mad at the publisher?
(20) No other bookstore on earth offers Amazon's selection.