bookselling
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- noun
- /ˈbʊkˌsɛlɪŋ/
- Amazon is seizing an ever-growing share of the bookselling market, but it's after far bigger game.
- bookselling industry
- bookselling business
- world of bookselling
Examples
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The premise was so strong, and Janna's ties to the Northwest bookselling/media community were compelling.
Academic text (2009) -
He often discusses the challenges facing the bookselling industry during his lectures.
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But Walter had started in the bookselling trade late and fared even worse than she did.
Fiction book (1993) -
We fear that more and bigger battles in bookselling and book publishing loom in the months ahead.
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I'm sorry, but it seems to me that Amazon's model is helping authors and helping bookselling in general.
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But perhaps the biggest factor in surviving and thriving during a tumultuous time in bookselling is an emotional one.
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As we've made clear over the last several years, we're very concerned with Amazon's rapidly growing dominance of bookselling.
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Our concern about bookstores isn't rooted in sentiment: bookstores are critical to modern bookselling.
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"Sixpence House" by Paul Collins is delightfully full of arcane trivia about books, bookselling, and randomness found in old forgotten volumes.
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The rise of online shopping has significantly changed the bookselling landscape.
Synonyms
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1.0
Exchanging goods or services for money
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2.9
The business of selling goods to the public in shops or online for personal use
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bookselling comes from the simple parts book and sell, meaning 'selling books'. Picture a small shop or a website full of books where people sell them. That's why bookselling means the business or activity of selling books to customers.