Sentence examples for electronic bookshops from inspiring English sources

As a result, there are probably fewer than 1,000 titles now available for downloading from electronic bookshops, and probably no more than 20,000 of the reading devices the Rocket eBook and the Softbook Reader on consumers' laps.

In the four weeks after publication early in June, readers posted around 800 reviews of "Hannibal" on Amazon.com, the leading electronic bookshop.

The 11th best-selling book on the list of Amazon.com, an online bookshop, is called "The Electronic Day Trader" and explains how to dive in and out of the market from minute to minute.

Waterstone's figures, taken from market research company Nielsen BookScan's tally of electronic till receipts in almost all UK bookshops and websites, are virtually definitive.

And my real worry is that, eventually, so many people will go for this easy, electronic read that we'll start losing our bookshops, and I don't want books to disappear.

"Not a chance," says Philip Blackwell, who started the Internet Bookshop, which WH Smith bought, and is now director of electronic commerce with Cap Gemini, a consultancy.

But the news immediately unsettled some in the industry, which has already seen thousands of bookshops close as readers increasingly turn to Amazon for printed and now electronic books.

The trick for independent bookshops is to concentrate on the human, tactile qualities that sets them apart from the impersonal screens and buttons of electronic devices.

Electronic ones.

"We need parking, money changers, bookshops".

Bookshops: Researchers rated 22.