Sentence examples for smaller bookshop from inspiring English sources

The worry for authors, agents, and smaller bookshop chains such as Waterstones, is that Penguin House would have too great a market share of consumer book sales: with judicious pruning this share might be taken down below the 25% threshold meaning the Competition Commission could nod it through.

The first is the continuing fall-out from the ending of the Net Book Agreement, which used to prevent discounting and so supported smaller bookshops.

A department store, which once sold everything from sushi to plus-fours, is now devoted entirely to one product books.The new Waterstone's is almost next door to Hatchards, a mere five-storey bookshop, with a well-established clientele, and two smaller bookshops.

In smaller bookshops in Barcelona extra staff are standing by to individually wrap the books you buy — like the barrio bookstore I wander into later, leaving with a copy of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Poésie en forme de rose freshly bound in red paper.

2005 Foyles opens a second small bookshop at the Royal Festival Hall.

Wyld, who runs a small bookshop in London, is no stranger to success.

The author, who also runs a small bookshop, said the prize money is a "lifeline".

We began in a small bookshop in Brixton, and much of the collection was amassed by volunteers and individual donations.

Our work did not make much of a fit, and we appeared together just once, at a small bookshop event.

"It was extremely surprising," said Leonie Schwendimann, who runs a small bookshop across from St .Laurentius, the Protestant church where Bach concerts sponsored by the bank are occasionally held.

I walked into a small bookshop, requested the book on a Saturday, which was sold to me (thankfully!) before the strict on-sale Tuesday release.