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The supply chain for book publishing is being changed by Coronavirus too

April 19, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

One thing the pandemic has done is to make everybody more aware of “supply chains”: the path by which a thing gets made and delivered to its ultimate user. Many of us heard many times that a ventilator is constructed of 150 parts that come from all over the world, hinting at the massive logistical […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: "Kitchen Confidential", Anthony Bourdain, carbon dividends, Coronavirus, Ingram Content Companies, John Ingram, Lightning Print, Sarah Palin, Sarasota Institute

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

7 ways book publishing will change over the next few years

October 8, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

A prior post described the new structure of the book publishing ecosystem. In the past three decades, we have migrated away from a world where a publisher needed to own a substantial infrastructure to deliver printed books to thousands of retail locations. And “back then” and for most of the time since, most book readers […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Publishing, backlist, Costco, Ingram Content Companies, Walmart

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

Getting an award and getting caught up with innovation with BISG

April 21, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The Book Industry Study Group, or BISG, is a book publishing trade organization now headed by Brian O’Leary that was formed to be pan-industry. They were preceded by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the American Booksellers Association (ABA), but those were two “sides” of the book trade with their own interests, and they […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Alison Rich, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BISG, Book Industry Study Group, Booknet Canada, Bradley Metrock, Brian O'Leary, Carolyn Pittis, Christopher Kenneally, climatechangeresources.org, Copyright Clearance Center, Curtis Brown, Dominique Raccah, Eleanor Shatzkin, Ginger Clark, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Ingram, Jess Johns, Kindle, Lena Tabori, Leonard Shatzkin, Maja Thomas, Michael Tamblyn, MVB U.S. Michael Cader, Planned Production, PRH, PublishersLunch, Rakuten Kobo, ReaderLink, Sally Dedecker, Sandy Paul, Sourcebooks, Story Fit, Ted Hill, Wattpad, Welman Digital

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