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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Bookstores"”.
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California Bookstores: Passion and Profit
<p>California Bookstores reviews independent booksellers’ current relationship between passion and profit in the context of challenges faced by the modern bookstore. Based on interviews from nine booksellers in California, the findings demonstrate strong ties between passion and profit. Independent …
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Dynamic Demand and Pricing Strategy in the E-Book Market
… (Amazon, other online retailers, or offline bookstores) in a number of book genres. The estimation reveals two consumer types, avid readers and general readers, who self-select into buying e-readers based on their unobserved heterogeneous book tastes. Compared with general readers, avid …
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Kibitz : a framework for creating recommender systems
… into other websites. Partnering with local bookstores, we evaluated the process of using Kibitz to build recommender systems for their communities.
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Three Essays in Public Economics
… have also had to endure the rise of large bookstores offering similar services. This may have motivated libraries to behave in a more cost efficient manner. Alternatively, monitoring of libraries may have decreased as patrons shift from library use to bookstore use, increasing inefficiency. …
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Creating a world of books, friends and flowers: gift books in America, 1825-1860
… and illustrations, gift books appeared in bookstores each year in anticipation of Christmas and New Year's. ☐ As an object-driven study, this thesis explores the contexts in which these volumes of literature and art became gifts. The discussion begins in the publisher's realm, where gift …
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Christian Literature and Social Justice: A Literary Analysis
… by analyzing the best-selling selections at bookstores associated with two mega churches, those with at least 2000 weekly attendants (Beer, 2009), in central Ohio. The data from this study does not reveal a link between resistance to social justice education and Christian literature; however, …
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Soft power and the Qing state: publishing, book collection, and political legitimacy in eighteenth-century China
… a variety of channels, most notably commercial bookstores and academies. Active cooperation between officials and the local elite was also crucial in the use of institutions to collect books for the bibliographic project “The Complete Collection of the Four Treasuries”, which the emperor …
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A Biblical and Theological Vision for the Revitalization of Churches
… are beginning to fill the shelves of Christian bookstores, and as many pastors find themselves at churches in need of revitalization, these resources are valuable tools. Nonetheless, merely reacting to finding oneself in a dying church will not help stem the tide overall. A movement of …
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Social Gatekeeping, the Serendipitous Tie and Discovery: Authors Connecting Readers to Books through Social Media Outreach
… as well as the decline of traditional bookstores where people often find books through browse. Authors and publishers therefore have turned to social media to spread the word about their titles. Social gatekeeping, an extension of traditional gatekeeping theory, is proposed as the …
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Appalachian studies in grades 6-12 language arts and English curricula in central Appalachia
… education, public libraries, publishers and bookstores were identified as particularly influential; much confusion exists about what young adult literature is, and it does not appear to be widely used in the curriculum; because of the shared sense of place and culture, a meaningful connection …
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Harm Reduction As The Commons of Care: Three Case Studies in Toronto
… studies. Focusing on accessible washrooms and bookstores in Toronto’s gay village, Ontario’s supervised consumption sites, and a packed library school classroom, each of these three case studies locates the commons in a different style of constructed social space. On the surface, these three …
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The Expatriates: American Writers Who Never Left Home
… (including cafes, literary salons, and bookstores); and the publications to which they submitted works. Next, I will portray the members of the Movement. The elders of the Movement--Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound-- will be depicted, as well as their followers--Sherwood Anderson, Ernest …
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The Bridges of Madison County and Iowa: Production, Reception, and Place
… campaign of "handselling" in independent bookstores, which put it on the New York Times bestseller list. Once the love story became a bestseller, the story of its popularity began to appear in mass entertainment media, notably on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and on the Oprah …
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Horse anatomy : ANSC 070 dissertation, Diploma in Farm Management
… country - and equally as many on bookshelves in bookstores. The trouble with this is that you cannot keep them at home as handy references, if borrowed from the library, and most horse books are quite expensive to buy. Also as in most fields of study there are as many self-proclaimed experts …
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Help!: An Annotated Bibliography of Resources for The Beginning Choral Conductor
… are still available in libraries or from used bookstores online. Therefore, I have included the Library of Congress call number and/or ISBN, if I could find them. Some of the best websites for finding out of print materials are www.addall.com, www.amazon.com, www.bibliofind.com, and …
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Marketing de relaciones en los medios sociales: Estudio empírico de los antecedentes y consecuentes de la calidad de la relación en los sitios web de viajes
… the physical distribution through stores, banks, bookstores, kiosks, post have to gradually change its business model the physical to virtual (online technology). The content of a transaction is the information on that product or that service rather than the product or service; interactions occur …
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'Its inhabitants are a reading people': from Cork city bookshops and voluntary libraries to the Cork Public Library, c.1792–1920
This thesis investigates the local reading culture of Cork city over the long nineteenth century, focusing on bookshops, libraries and reading rooms. It considers the question of the affordability of reading material and the ways it was accessed by the city’s population. It begins by looking at the …