Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The business of selling books.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The employment of selling books.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
sale ofbooks .
Etymologies
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Examples
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* Although I don't think supermarkets becoming a major force in bookselling is a bad thing - most books today (O'Reilly computer manuals, Gillian McKeith's Votercise Yourself Thin And Immigrant-Free, Noam Chomsky's Spring Colouring Book 2005) go out of date faster than soup.
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Remember a couple days back when we pointed out that (Moby pointed out that) the WaPo had started sending readers to Amazon, creating a defacto corporate partnership in a time of concern about how bookselling is killing publishing?
Paper/bookseller partnerships growing like bacterial infection in kneecaps of responsible journalism
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The proxy battle comes at a time when bookselling is being transformed by the rush to digital texts.
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And the reach of bookselling is as deep and wide as it's ever been.
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Independent bookselling is being reinvented in this way right now.
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And the reach of bookselling is as deep and wide as it's ever been.
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“My philosophy of bookselling is still forming,” acknowledges Kornegay.
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As you may know (or not), bookselling is the lowest financial rung of retail.
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“My philosophy of bookselling is still forming,” acknowledges Kornegay.
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The biggest change in bookselling I notice now as a customer is the huge increase in author appearances, booksigning events, poetry readings and the like.
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