Definition of bookseller
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Now big studio and video game exhibits are front and center, with booksellers are in the back.
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At the top is the case of five Hong Kong booksellers secretly detained on the mainland starting in late 2015 for selling gossipy titles about elite Chinese politics to mainland readers.
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Paperbacks in mystery and romance are often best-sellers in Louisville during the summer, according to Carmichael's bookseller Sam Miller.
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Look at the extent to which that’s already happened: the abduction of booksellers, Beijing’s prevention of pro-independence lawmakers taking office.
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After his release, one of the booksellers publicly confirmed he had been abducted by Chinese agents and said he was detained and psychologically tortured.
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Hong Kong (CNN)The detention of Hong Kong booksellers in China is not an issue the city's government should take up, its incoming leader said Thursday.
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Almost going under Amazon began, for those too young to remember, as a discount internet bookseller in 1995.
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Amazon—which started out as an online bookseller but has expanded to selling everything from video to appliances to fresh groceries from its website—has also pushed into the brick and mortar space with its own physical bookstores.
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First Known Use of bookseller
15th century
BOOKSELLER Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of bookseller for English Language Learners
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: a person or company that sells books
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