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The disruption of the disruption is temporary

April 30, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 29 Comments

There’s little doubt that the digital (r)evolution, to the degree it is measured by the shift by consumers from reading on paper to reading on a screen, has plateaued, at least temporarily. The most recent article in PW on the subject spells out that some publishers have even seen their digital sales decline, although always […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "50 Shades of Gray", Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BestLittleBookshop.com, Big Five, DBW 2015, F+W Media, Hobbit, Houghton Harcourt, Kieron Smith, Nook, Penguin Random House, Publishers Weekly, Quarto Publishing, Random House, The Book Depository

The book world keeps changing, so Digital Book World has to change too

April 23, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

This post invites you to help us shape the agenda for Digital Book World 2015. It was five years ago this summer that David Nussbaum and Sara Domville of F+W Media took me out to lunch and said they thought the book business could have a more useful digital conference — one, in their words, […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, David Nussbaum, F+W Media, Kailey Moran, Kindle, O'Reilly Media, Reynolds and Reynolds, Sara Domville, StartWithXML, Tools of Change

When an author should self-publish and how that might change

April 17, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

There is a question that every agent and publisher is dealing with, because authors surely are. And that’s this: when should an author self- (or indie-) publish? The answer is certainly not “never”, and if there is anybody left in a publishing house who thinks it is, they should think a little harder. For a […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Arthur Klebanoff, Curtis Brown, Diversion, Ereads, Joe Konrath, Open Road, Richard Curtis, Rosetta Books, Trident, Waxman-Leavell Agency, Writer's House

Getting Mark Coker right this time and agreeing with him up to a point

March 12, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

On Tuesday, for the first time in the five years I have been writing this blog, I did a post I would like to take back. (But in the interest of the public record, and because there were several comments of value, I’m leaving it up.) This is the post that I should have written […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: CCC, Diversion, Faber, Great Debate, Huffington Post, Hugh Howey, Ken Brooks, London Book Fair, Mark Coker, McGraw Hill Education, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Scott Waxman, Smashwords, Stephen Page

Sometimes one more calculation can make what looked first like revolution resemble what it really is: evolution

March 11, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

Author’s warning: this post is largely wrong! The following post was written based on a fundamental misunderstanding, assuming that Mark Coker’s post was talking about ebook sales in units when he was talking about dollars.  So while there are some insights that may have value, the post is mostly wrong.   I am leaving it […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Huffington Post, Hugh Howey, Mark Coker, Smashwords

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