He wishes them to be read in the future as "stand-alone works," to appear in the form of those wonderfully cute little items bookstores display next to the cash register.
Publishers, who have been searching for new ways to market e-books to replace intriguing covers and bookstore displays, could give away sponsored e-books.
Louisville On trains, in airports, and in bookstore displays over the past thirty years, you may have noticed the slow but steady sequential progression of "alphabet books," by Sue Grafton (B.A. '61).
But Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means was winking at me from a bookstore display in a witty new cover and a beguiling small format; this was a book I could read in one evening.
When the cartoonist B. Kliban's first "Cat" book was published in 1975, for example, sales were anemic until Mr. Workman sent his staff to the Madison Square Garden cat show to peddle copies and had poster-size versions of Mr. Kliban's richly detailed cats printed for bookstore displays.
However, alongside Amazon's own pricing, the price of the same book available from your local bookstore is displayed, with the option to also purchase locally.
A feminist journal with the word as its title is widely available in bookstores here, displayed in the front rung at Borders at the Time Warner Center.
An online bookstore can "display" nearly everything ever published.
When a customer logs on to the Web site, "a personalized bookstore" appears, displaying ingredients from all three sources to help her find what she might like, says Tom Nissley, an Amazon editor.
The shelves next to Josh's work desk have four books turned out and leaned against the spines of the rest, bookstore-display-style: The Orators by W. H. Auden and Black Swan by Thomas Mann sandwiching a pair of 60s-era sci-fi paperbacks.
