Smirnoff had met Grisham at the bookstore and was soon editing his blockbuster courtroom dramas, such as The Chamber and The Street Lawyer, before they were sent to his publisher.
People braved subzero temperatures to camp out a full week before the first midnight signing, at the BYU Bookstore in Provo, Utah, earlier this month, said promotions supervisor Tami Barber.
And in the course of spending the evening at that bookstore he ends up quite dead in the first chapter.
Over morning coffee at the Prairie Lights bookstore, she explained that she joined CouchSurfing after she moved to Iowa, in 2010, and missed having roommates.
She happened to have been at a book signing at the largest black bookstore in L.A. when the now-dead person - who wasn't then - James Simpson Lee Hastings Jr.
Next, pause for free-form reverie in the designated Poet's Chair upstairs at City Lights, the bookstore owned by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who won a landmark 1957 free-speech case over the publication of Allen Ginsberg's incendiary epic poem Howl.
Thailand native Supap Kirtsaeng, a mathematics student at the University of Southern California, noticed that some of the college textbooks he used and sampled from his local college bookstore were selling at a lower price in Thailand than here in the United States.
The operators of the Japanese American National Museum bookstore didn't like the piece at all and removed the magazine from its shelves -- an indication, perhaps, that Giant Robot's inventors shouldn't give up their day jobs just yet.
The biggest break came in 2004, when TV writer Alan Ball, the creator of the HBO show "Six Feet Under, " discovered the books when he was killing time at a bookstore before a dentist appointment.
"I learned about the work it takes to get the book from the publishers and into the hands of readers, " says returning "Power Reader" Sherae Allen, a teacher and New York City resident who learned about the convention through a promotion at Brooklyn's Greenlight Bookstore.
At the time Smirnoff--a California native who never finished high school or college--was working at a bookstore in Oxford, where he settled when his car died there during a cross-country trip.
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In 2003, federal agents discovered "nearly two pounds of a cyanide compound and other chemicals that could create enough poisonous gas to kill everyone inside a space as large as a big-chain bookstore or a small-town civic center" at the home of Judith Bruey and her husband, William Krar, according to an Associated Press report.
As an undergrad at Pitzer College, he started a used bookstore because he was so enraged by the high cost and low resale value of textbooks.
He swung by a Brooklyn bookstore that sells French books and comics, then met with prospective voters at the French consulate on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
It was at our local bookstore and I used to spend hours reading it, immersing myself in the format (It was forty dollars so I never could afford to purchase it).
At retail, we had a terrific year growing comparable bookstore sales 4.5% for the quarter and 1.4% for the year, a result of our effective new merchandising efforts and continued industry consolidation.
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The publishers resisted, for instance, a provision of the contracts that said if another retailer were selling a book at a lower price, the publisher would have to match the lower price in Apple's bookstore.
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At the same time, Conducent sells the on-screen space to such advertisers as Amazon, an online bookstore, and Egghead, a software vendor.
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