That is all right with Jeff Mayersohn, owner of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
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Oh, there is still a university book store, selling mostly textbooks and the ubiquitous Penn State paraphernalia and memorabilia.
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At the same time, the company reworked its customer loyalty program, overhauled its website and introduced a digital book store.
Hess Brewing is expanding into a new, larger location a former Christian book store that had been owned by church members.
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As a former book store owner (my first entrepreneurial venture which I later sold) and a custom publisher, this news is bittersweet.
We have a really excellent used book store with a coffee shop attached and plenty of other types of media to buy.
My uncle calls it "the only used book store where you can go with a list, " but I've never bothered with one.
The Middlebury (Vermont) College Book Store hosts promotions for Facebook fans--it has 279--who can win free textbooks and get discounts on their birthdays.
The Middlebury (Vt.) College Book Store hosts promotions for Facebook fans--it has 279--who can win free textbooks and get discounts on their birthdays.
The online book store will launch with about 10, 000 titles, with each book available for approximately 20-25% below regular retail price for the physical copy.
Pass a lazy weekend afternoon at Heine Brothers' Coffee , where you can enjoy a fair-trade, organic latte and browse the adjoining Carmichael's book store.
Google just opened its electronic book store, with 3 million titles.
Earlier this year Apple unveiled a new version of its digital book store that supports textbooks, signaling that the company sees many of the same opportunities.
The changes in the distribution environment are now leaving many cities and towns without booksellers or requiring consumers travel significant distances to reach a book store.
He added that the shift "allows Sony to make its e-book store compatible with multiple devices and its Reader devices open to multiple sources for content".
Muneaki Masuda (No. 38), since taking his book store chain private in 2011, has been expanding physical locations, and even took over running his first public library.
Sometimes the massive and expensive institutions that deliver health care are worse at dispensing practical advice than a quaint how-to book available at a used book store.
K. Galbraith (in the local book store in Gstaad, where they both went skiing, they would battle to get their books the best spot in the window).
Close on the heels of the launch of its e-book store in Brazil, Amazon announced the launch of its Kindle e-book store in China last Thursday.
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An independent book store not associated with the eponymous and, of course, quite famous university across the street, has carved out its own niche in the e-book market.
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"If the newspaper has one reader, and the book store has another reader and the magazine publisher has another reader, it just doesn't make any sense, " he said.
It couldn't be learned whether Apple will sell the HarperCollins titles via a new e-book store or through its existing iTunes Store, which sells music, television shows and movies.
"I don't download and I don't stream and I know that is partly because I am of an older generation, " says Larry Farber, who runs a music, film and book store on the edge of the hip Sodermalm area.
Soon, it will offer a more expensive package that includes a book launch at the store.
He meets with book buyers at major store chains and checks in with his publisher's sales force.
With direct marketing, you're trying to engage the customer on a deeper level than simply their pocket book at the grocery store.
It's no secret that Amazon and other digital book retailers track and store consumer information detailing what books are purchased and read.
In Las Vegas small business vendors showcased the discounts they planned to offer as part of Small Business Saturday: a jewelry store took 20-percent off its products, a hair salon offered 20-percent off haircuts and threw in a complimentary book, a flower store offered 10-percent off its merchandise.
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