(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.
Library
Definition:
(n.) A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.
(n.) A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(2) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(3) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(4) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
(5) We have isolated a murine cDNA clone, pCAL-F559, for the calcium-binding protein calcyclin by differential screening of a cDNA library made from RNA isolated from hair follicles of 6-d-old mice.
(6) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.
(7) However, the plasmid libraries for chromosomes 1, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, and 20 hybridize weakly or not at all near the centromeres of the target chromosome types.
(8) A library of Zymomonas mobilis genomic DNA was constructed in the broad-host-range cosmid pLAFR1.
(9) The decision, announced earlier this week, will see the region’s libraries reduced from 51 branches to 35.
(10) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(11) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(12) Last month Walsall council announced it would close 15 of its 16 libraries, and residents told the Guardian they stood to lose vital community spaces as well as reading resources.
(13) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
(14) Two genes were isolated from a library of total plasmid DNA of one of the mutants, 3F1.
(15) Yellow lupin nodule specific sequences were selected by screening of cDNA library prepared from lupin nodule poly(A)+RNA.
(16) Three independent clones with overlapping inserts of 6.8, 10.5, and 11 kilobases (kb) were isolated from S. cerevisiae genomic libraries in YEp24 (2 micron) and YCp50 (CEN) plasmids.
(17) However, when using DNA libraries with large cloned inserts, this sequence characterization is not immediately practicable.
(18) Programs to search for patterns in individual sequences and libraries of sequences are described.
(19) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
(20) The library was screened by plaque hybridization to identify phage clones containing the unamplified 10.5-kilobase DNA sequence.