Recent Examples on the WebBarnes & Noble had brought in a lot of professional retailers, but professional retailers don’t make very good booksellers.—Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2024 Collectors came to them with wish lists for the booksellers to track down.—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023 Last year, organizations representing publishers, booksellers and authors formed The Protect the Creative Economy Coalition to oppose state legislation.—Susan Haigh, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024 The law also means booksellers would have to rate books already sold.—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024 In the 1987 film 84 Charing Cross Road, a transatlantic transaction between a lover of books and a bookseller was snail’s pace slow as letters crossed the oceans, checks, and so on.—John Tamny, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024 Since then, the roughly 230 open-air booksellers have created what is considered to be the largest open-air book market in Europe, stuffing their finds into more than 930 boxes along some two miles of the Seine.—Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024 Police told the booksellers last summer that, for security reasons, several hundred of their stalls would be temporarily relocated a few days before the July 26 opening ceremony of the Summer Games taking place in the heart of Paris and along the Seine.—Thomas Adamson, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2024 The independent bookstore reopened to a large crowd Sunday, when local authors, fellow booksellers and customers from all over New York City came out to celebrate the event.—Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2024
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