Nonbook

November 2005 the graphic novel was the only 'nonbook' on Time's list of the 100 best novels since 1923. ❋ Michael Stevens (2006)

Personally I see great virtue in the "nonbook" presentation of certain biographical or historical subjects. ❋ Kirkpatrick, Ralph (1965)

Your life has arranged some more personalized nonbook learning. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Borders filed for Chapter 11 with plans to close about 30% of its stores and emerge with a new focus on e-books and nonbook products. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They're at Costco and newsstands and grocery stores and dozens of other nonbook book outlets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Publishers need to build reader relationships to avoid their authors becoming "anonymous wordsmiths" at a time when showcase opportunities are declining as Borders Group Inc. closes 200 stores and Barnes & Noble Inc. dedicates more space to nonbook items. ❋ Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg (2011)

Borders hopes this, along with better customer service and expanded nonbook offerings in its stores, like craft kits from Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc., can drive the top-line turnaround it desperately wants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some US internet retailers of other products, like LLBean, for example, don't apply such stupid restrictions or don't have to, although there are many other nonbook retailers who've decided they can't be arsed organising non-US freight, well, because they can. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Every other meeting is now devoted to nonbook discussions because participants were talking about these topics instead of about books. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For the last few years, he said, the store has depended on sales from nonbook items that yield larger profit margins, like greeting cards, journals and action figures of Carl Jung and Rosie the Riveter. ❋ Ed Gorman (2006)

Ducking into the secret room beyond, he leaned hard on a lever set in the wall that was a match to the nonbook outside. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1999)

With Mr. Auden's statement that Professor Deutsch's compilation is a nonbook, I am in complete agreement. ❋ Kirkpatrick, Ralph (1965)

What is less pardonable in such a nonbook, in which the literal transcription of the language, even the orthography of documents, is so valuable in bringing us palpably close to sources and to contact with an ambience and its personalities, is that it should be translated. ❋ Kirkpatrick, Ralph (1965)

And even if nonbook business attracts attention, how much profit will follow? ❋ By JULIE BOSMAN (2011)

Other stores are experimenting with adding more nonbook products, as Barnes & Noble has done with its in-store cafes and sales of toys and games. ❋ By JULIE BOSMAN (2011)