How to Use bookseller in a Sentence

bookseller

noun
  • The Times says its list is based on surveys of thousands of booksellers.
    David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Now big studio and video game exhibits are front and center, with booksellers are in the back.
    Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 20 July 2017
  • There are even booksellers whose specialty is building out collections for restaurants, bars, and hotels.
    Mari Uyehara, Bon Appetit, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The paperback book is $14.99, available at the event and through online booksellers, such as Amazon.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Rancho Bernardo, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The book is for available for sale in print and digital formats via major booksellers and the University of Akron Press website.
    Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • At the top of my list is John Grisham’s ‘Camino Island,’ a ‘trouble in paradise’ tale in which a central character is a bookseller.
    Charles Finch, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • But there doesn't seem to be any danger that Redfin will do to real estate agents what Expedia did to travel agents or Amazon did to conventional booksellers.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 28 July 2017
  • After his release, one of the booksellers publicly confirmed he had been abducted by Chinese agents and said he was detained and psychologically tortured.
    Thomas Maresca, USA TODAY, 25 June 2017
  • The bookstore is really a stall in the style of the booksellers on the banks of the Seine in Paris.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
  • For booksellers, this is the most engaging and fun time of the year!
    Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • For 50 years readers have flocked to the booksellers for the volume and devoured it.
    David Shribman, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • Collectors came to them with wish lists for the booksellers to track down.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • One of the boxes was from the bookseller Borders, which went out of business eleven years ago.
    Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The arrests of Hong Kong booksellers and activists have fed these fears.
    Yanan Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2019
  • The bookseller sharply warned Hans not to take such a dangerous risk.
    Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • In 15 years as a bookseller in east London, Jane Howe never saw the need for a website.
    Adam Geller, The Denver Post, 14 July 2020
  • The law also means booksellers would have to rate books already sold.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Schwartz, on the other hand, was frustrated to learn that some booksellers were out of stock.
    Peter Osnos, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Wildgeese Bookshop, the beloved bookseller in downtown Franklin, could have opened its doors May 4.
    Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2020
  • Beauty and the Beast has the baker, the bookseller, the guy with a wheelbarrow guy full of pumpkins, and so on—each of which make the town function.
    Sarah Todd, Quartz, 12 May 2021
  • Aster Karbaum, a former bookseller, has white hair, a deep tan and topaz-blue eyes.
    Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The bookseller had sensed the time was ripe for an anthology.
    Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Last season Joe was going about his life as a bookseller in New York City.
    Jenna Adrian-Diaz, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The booksellers whose rickety green stands dot the River Seine have been a Paris staple for hundreds of years.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Eso Won, named bookseller of the year this week by Publishers Weekly, is the partner for this event.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2021
  • The bookseller did not respond to a CNN request for comment.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, 800 copies are a drop in the bucket to Amazon and PRH—but not to independent booksellers.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The fact that my father was a bookseller was helpful; I was borne by a following wind.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2022
  • The team of nine is filled with expert voices who once stood at pivotal intersections of the book world, including former publishing sales reps, booksellers, writers, journalists and agents.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
  • The festival offers one of the best free literary events of the year, showcasing big ideas and national literary giants as well as Chicago authors, booksellers and publishers.
    Monica Eng, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024

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