Sentence examples for chain of bookshops from inspiring English sources
This is what Barnes & Noble, a chain of bookshops, has attempted with its bn.com site.
A spokesman for the Waterstone's chain of bookshops, Jon Howells agreed.
The HMV Group then bought Waterstone's and in 2005 moved to take over the Ottakar's chain of bookshops.
Meanwhile the great shop-slayer, Amazon, is building – you guessed it – a chain of bookshops across America.
As Kunle Tejuoso, who runs the Glendora chain of bookshops in Lagos and Abuja with his brother Toyin, told me, "Everything is tied to the economy".
The losers will include those (like Borders, an extinct chain of bookshops) that keep selling things people are happy to buy online.
Borders, a chain of American bookshops, is gone.
When Daunt, who had founded a chain of London bookshops, became CEO of Waterstones in 2011, he recalls that "everyone was looking into a dark deep pit".
But a lot of the goodwill also has to do with James Daunt, Waterstones' managing director, who gave up running his small chain of independent bookshops to turn around the retail giant.
The second reason is the devastating success of an innovative chain of second-hand bookshops called Book-Off, which buys used paperbacks at around 5% of the retail price, trims off their worn edges with a machine behind the counter and resells them for around one-third of the new price.So publishers turned to keitai books, which can be distributed digitally and cannot be resold.
