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Thinking more about ebooks and libraries and what big publishers should do

March 18, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 49 Comments

The reluctance of most big publishers to make ebooks available through library lending is a topic of widespread attention and concern. The AAP turned a chunk of its annual meeting over to the topic and Dr. Anthony Marx, the President and CEO of the New York Public Library, used his time to volunteer his institution […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Big Six, Bloomsbury, HarperCollins, Kindle, Library Bookshelf, Oprah, OverDrive, Perseus, Random House, Rick Joyce, Spiegel & Grau, Suze Orman

Libraries and publishers don’t have symmetrical interest in a conversation

February 22, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

Because libraries are, at most 5% of a general trade publisher’s business and far less of the ebook business, and because the market is changing so rapidly and because every retailer except Amazon can be said to be struggling to carve out a sustainable position in the global ebook marketplace, there are many legitimate reasons […]

Filed Under: eBooks, libraries, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 3M, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bloomsbury, Bookish, Google, Kobo, OverDrive, Random House

Conceiving issues that will gestate in the next nine months; planning for 2012 Digital Book World

April 19, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 48 Comments

The fact that Publishers Launch Conferences will stage half-a-dozen or more events before our next big multi-day Digital Book World blowout next January doesn’t change the DBW calendar. Now is the time of year when we have to start thinking about what the big issues will be at the turn of the year so we […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, rights, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, BIC, BISG, Hachette, Ingram, iPad, James Long, James Patterson, John Locke, Kindle, London Book Fair, Making Information Pay, Nook Color, O'Reilly, Orbit, Pan Macmillan, Rick Richter, Ruckus Media, Safari, Sara Lloyd, Tara Catogge

It will be hard to find a public library 15 years from now

April 8, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 68 Comments

I spoke last week to a group in Montreal convened by the English-language Publishers of Quebec and the Quebec Writers Association in a small auditorium at the Atwater Library. The Atwater Library is a private library with very limited government funding which is more than 100 years old. (The Globe and Mail article that quoted […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, libraries, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Atwater Library, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, English-language Publishers of Quebec, Gary Price, Globe and Mail, Ingram, Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Forum, Quebec Writers Association

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