Sentence examples for offer the book from inspiring English sources
At one extraordinary moment, trying to get out of the contract, Frank Doubleday actually volunteered to offer the book to some of his rivals, including Macmillan and Lippincott.
Comics Alliance has a series of interviews with retailers, including one who will not offer the book when it becomes available in print and another who will donate proceeds to the Human Rights Campaign.
In a statement yesterday Mary Ellen Keating, a Barnes & Noble spokeswoman, said the company had initially responded to "widespread customer outrage and disgust" when it decided not to offer the book in its stores.
Despite the popularity of the Stephen King title, Simon & Schuster refused to allow Fatbrain to offer the book on its Web site for popular books, which posts about 6,000 digital works and sells them for an average of $3. "We don't get it," said Chris MacAskill, Fatbrain.com's chief executive.
He puts it much better: "I offer the book not as market history but as a portrait of a single American living within money obsession during the first three years of the millennium -- a wild, dangerous and, finally, tragic era in which hope, folly and disenchantment came together in amazed combinations, as if none had ever been aware of the others' existence before".
In that spirit, M.I.T. Press has just published an edition of the original text "annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds," and prepared by the leaders of the Frankenstein Bicentennial Project, at Arizona State University, with funding from the National Science Foundation; they offer the book as a catechism for designers of robots and inventors of artificial intelligences.
If you want the most money possible, sell the book yourself online; for speed and convenience, offer the books to a used bookstore.
The culinary offerings of the restaurant, fittingly, include salt, and the gift shop offers the book "A Man of Salt and Trees: The Life of Joy Morton".
When Macy's offered the book for 89 cents, the publisher sued.
Other publishers fought shy of being offered the book, but in l986 Tony Lacey at Viking picked it up.
"The first thing I said when offered the book was 'If I'm going to do this she's not going to quit her job,'" Ms. McKenna said.
