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Amazon has done so many smart things that some of the best ones get forgotten

March 9, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

There’s quite a bit of publishing about publishing going on in the next few weeks. British academic John B. Thompson has written a solid scholarly history of book publishing in the past quarter century or so called “Book Wars” that will publish next month, focused on the arrival of ebooks and how publishers and the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Behemoth, "Book Wars", "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know", "The Family Business", Amazon Rising", Baker & Taylor, I2S2, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, iPad, Jeff Bezos, John B. Thompson, Keel Hunt, Kindle, Nook, Robert Paris Riger, Robin Gaster, Rocket Book, Softbook, Sony Reader, West Margin Books

Both the supply chain and book marketing are forever changed by Coronavirus

July 12, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Just before the world changed, about five months ago on February 18th, we wrote in this space about two initiatives that made sense for all publishers to employ to raise revenues and profits. One was Ingram’s Guaranteed Availability Program (GAP), which connects their Lightning print-on-demand capability to their ability to ship within 24 hours, delivering […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Book supply chain, GAP, Grove Atlantic, Guaranteed Availability Program, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ignition, Ingram, Lightning Print, Open Road, Print-On-Demand

Two pretty easy ways to add revenue that most publishers are missing

February 18, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The biggest publishers today are regularly delivering improved profit performance on a flat or declining sales base. This masks a troubling truth about today’s book business. The core asset base of a book publisher is “performing titles”: the books that are delivering measurable revenues. The more of them there are the healthier the business is. […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, rights, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: books on Kobe Bryant, Free money for publlshers, Ignition, Ingram, Jane Friedman, John Ingram, Lightning, Open Road, Print-On-Demand

One big change in book publishing is that it does not require you to have much of an organization to play anymore

September 30, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

More than two decades into its digital transition, book publishing has evolved so that a capital-intensive infrastructure is no longer a requirement to successfully develop a book, or a list of books, and bring the books to market. This has resulted in a self-publishing segment, so far almost entirely author-driven, that is substantial in reach […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Apple, Audible, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Costco, eBooks, Google, iBookstore, Indigo, Ingram, Ingram Spark, iPad, Kindle, KindleUnlimited, Kobo, Nook, Sony Reader, Walmart

Tamblyn sees a new era for bookselling that might be a new era for publishing as well

May 13, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Michael Tamblyn, who heads up the Kobo global ebook operation, delivered a brilliant talk at the BISG Annual Meeting last week. The meat of his speech was to instruct publishers in very specific terms how to title, price, release, and identify their books in metadata in ways that really matter to sales and which are, […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, BISG, CreateSpace, Ingram, IngramSpark, Michael Tamblyn

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