Sentence examples for mainstream booksellers from inspiring English sources
John Murray, which made $532,000 in profit last year on sales of $11.6 million, found itself too small to compete on the two fronts where publishing battles are generally fought: paying advances to top-selling authors and securing shelf space from mainstream booksellers.
More generally, the Amazon bestseller search is unlikely to tell us anything specific about the buying habits of students or academics, or uptake of bioethics texts for academic courses, as university libraries tend to rely on mainstream booksellers both for stocking libraries and supplying course texts.
Purchase an eBook from a mainstream bookseller.
As Joel Rickett wrote last year, "manga is now mainstream, with most chain booksellers devoting shelf sections to it... To many readers the genre is baffling - and that's why teenagers like it".
His ignorance of the bookselling trade, for example, leads him to confuse Grub Street productions by the likes of John Dunton, whom he mistakenly dubs "a leading journalist and bookseller", with mainstream publication.
The Bookseller's diarist Horace Bent believes that, today, there has also been a "Diagram-isation" of mainstream books.
Booksellers see this shift too.
Even booksellers have an opinion.
