词汇 | bookseller |
释义 | bookseller noun[ C ] uk /ˈbʊkˌsel.ər/ us /ˈbʊkˌsel.ɚ/ a person or company that sells books: 书商,售书者;图书公司 an online bookseller网上书商 People who sell things agent assistant auctioneer barker barrow boy flower girl franchisee gallerist haberdasher hawker reseller retailer sales assistant sales force sales rep superseller supplier tout tradesman tradespeople bookseller | Business Englishbookseller noun[ C ] uk /ˈbʊkˌselər/ us /-ɚ/ COMMERCE a company that owns one or more bookshops, or that sells books on the internet: The online bookseller features a sales rating for all the books it sells. The book is available from all major booksellers. Examples of booksellerbookseller Most of the essays focus on the key figures - authors, booksellers, and printers - in the production of different types of publication. Low-status occupations included a bookseller, lodging-house keepers, a coffee-stand keeper and teachers. The books may be purchased from any bookseller. First, there was no consensus among the profession, as, for example, booksellers' unions are in favour of a free market. Subscribers and contributors include publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary agents, authors and others involved professionally with the book in thirty countries. We should not underestimate the importance of the booksellers' privileges in this matter, but more was at stake. Outside the house a whole new commercial world emerged as enterprising booksellers and stationers began producing guidebooks, whether official or unofficial, for would-be visitors. Moreover, they select one or several booksellers who are asked to deliver the ordered books. Nevertheless, it may be that the libraries worsened the economics of the second-hand bookseller and newsagents. But only by reading the correspondence of booksellers can one gauge their effects. With one stroke of the pen, this measure destroyed most of the trade between the provincial booksellers and foreign publishers. Without this pedagogic stimulus, it is true that the shelves of booksellers would have looked rather bare. In the end, such denunciations may go some way towards explaining the lengths to which booksellers and printers went to propagandize their own social worth in the age of print. Lawyers, booksellers, and other professionals began to reside and work in towns in a way distinct from the merchants, tradesmen, and manufacturers who made up the civic community. But it is interesting that the collection on censorship does not include, for example, an article on the ways one specific bookseller dealt with the damage to his inventory. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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