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  • Does that mean all future issues will have ISBNs and be available through regular book-market distribution channels in addition to newsstands and Diamond?

    Yen Plus, No. 2! 2008

  • The media report the killings (as they did this week, when reporters covered attacks on a historic Baghdad book-market,) but they don't connect the dots.

    Laura Flanders: For Iraqi Women, Another Day of Violence 2008

  • Especially you cannot want a book about Success such as those which you can now find scattered by the hundred about the book-market.

    G.K. Speaks - The Fallacy of Success 2007

  • The Book Standard is the one-stop online information center that provides Nielsen BookScan-powered charts, book-market analysis, news, reviews, commentary, job boards, plus extensive database resources

    February 2005 2005

  • Commentaries upon the Koran, worth double that sum, at the Cairo book-market.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • As at Mekka there is no public book-market, the only books

    Travels in Arabia 2003

  • During my stay at Damascus, which is the richest book-market in the East, and the cheapest, from being very little frequented by Europeans, I heard that several Arabs of Baghdad, secretly commissioned for that purpose by Saoud, the Wahaby chief, had purchased there many historical works.

    Travels in Arabia 2003

  • And just about the same time James O'Connor intimated in the Victoria "Colonist" that the trouble with our native book-market would end when the Canadian author woke up and wrote: books worth buying.

    Canada Finds Her Voice 1949

  • Auctioneers were surprised at the gradual change coming over the book-market, and a few fortunate people obtained considerable prices for articles they were told to expect nothing for.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • Ceasing to counterfeit the manner of anyone, or to consult the exigencies of the book-market, she for the first time ventures to be herself responsible for the inspiration and the mode of expression adopted.

    Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas

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