'booksellers' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to someone who sells books as a profession. You can use the word 'booksellers' in various contexts, such as: - In a sentence: "The local bookseller recommended a new mystery novel that has been flying off the shelves." - In a business setting: "The publishing company works closely with booksellers to promote and sell their new releases." - In a headline: "Independent booksellers see a rise in sales during the pandemic as people turn to reading for comfort." - In a job advertisement: "We are currently hiring booksellers for our bookstore chain, with a passion for literature and customer service."
Amazon became a bookselling giant by driving thousands of booksellers out of business.
As well as seeing off competition from Mandelson, Blair's first week sales – equivalent to 4p in every £1 spent at UK booksellers last week – also beat John Major's first-week sales for My Autobiography (5,415), John Prescott's for Pulling No Punches (1,202) and David Blunkett's for The Blunkett Tapes (769), said Stone.
A spokeswoman for the chain said: "Waterstones confirms that a tragic accident at its Blackpool shop has resulted in the death of one of its booksellers.
The winner of this year's Alliance of Radical Booksellers (Little Rebels children's book award for radical fiction is Gill Lewis for her book, Scarlet Ibis (published by OUP).
Booksellers say to me that there aren't many poetry books being published; book consultants and journalists tell me that they aren't told about new children's poetry books when they are published.
That is my experience," said Christoph Stempl, a manager at the Hugendubel bookstore on Munich's Marienplatz.Stacked in the front window of most German booksellers, the book's stylish cover draws the eyes in.
Publishers and booksellers fear it could unbind their business.Worries about the effect of libraries on the book trade are not new.
Christian industrialists, the backbone of the newly wealthy Victorians, would ask their booksellers to provide the whole set of 31 volumes for the libraries of the grand houses they were building, both in London and the countryside.
After Borders was liquidated in 2011, medium-sized booksellers such as Books A Million (from Alabama) and Half Price Books (a Texan chain) have together increased employment by 4.1%, to 49,150.Mr Makhija has studied the fastest-growing mid-sized firms, to see what they were doing differently.
Without the costs of maintaining physical shops, Amazon finds it easy to match or beat the discounts of most conventional booksellers, sometimes even when shipping costs are included.
These days, the focus is on how the British chains themselves compete with Internet booksellers and large American firms.Borders, an American company, has bought up Books etc. and opened new mega-stores in Leeds, Glasgow, Brighton and London.
