Saturday, December 10, 2011

books for sale as christmas gifts

The demand for gifts is - just the right weather is still missing

Hünfeld yet keeps the Christmas spirit by many customers Hünfelder country borders. Responsible for making the traders, especially the mild weather and lack of snow.

Rain, as temperatures in the fall, only occasionally getting lost in the snow on roofs - the Christmas spirit yet remains in many more customers to report the dealers in the region.

"A Christmas feeling has at most customers have not really developed," said Dimitra Siebert, CEO of D & C in Fulda. "But for that we are there for. People can come here and be inspired, "adds business partner Connie Hohmann. Whether fashion jewelry or home accessories - depending on the price category would now move one or the other in the Christmas shopping bags.

In the bookstore Möller has no real Christmas cheer spreads. "The snow just do not have," says saleswoman Irmgard Weber from the stationery department. Carolin Schwantes, responsible for the sale of books, adds: "Nevertheless, we have many products packaged as gifts. The newly published Eragon, Greg's diaries and the biography of Steve Jobs are very popular. "

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Meaningless books become e-Books

Andrew Wylie is the most powerful literary agent in the world. He believes in the physical charm of the classic book.

His father was chief editor at Houghton Mifflin in Boston, his uncle, an important banker. Andrew Wylie loved both worlds, sought a common denominator and decided to become a literary agent, though he had what he knew of "literary" literary agents, please do not actually.

"They sat in small, dusty office with green lilies wilting in the window," recalls the 62-year-old on his first impressions. "The whole thing was devastating and it was felt that the best authors were represented at the worst and the worst best. To enjoy my life, can read, I had good books. But how do you make of it a business, when people who write well are not paid well? Yes, the best writers earn their money in time, and so is the long term by all of Shakespeare's most valuable author. But the publishing business is knitted, as if the most valuable author Danielle Steel, which has sold worldwide with their romance novels since 1977 530 million books. "

Saturday, July 24, 2010