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Why offshore ebook customers are so often frustrated

November 7, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

People of a certain age — mine — probably first encountered the world of rights as a content consumer with pop music in the 1960s. British albums, which came in sleeves that were flimsier cardboard than American album sleeves, routinely had 15 songs. American albums had 12. And the British would put songs out as […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Beatles, Diesel Ebooks, DRM, Giants, iBookstore, Jane Litte, Michael Cader, Rolling Stones

Will juvie publishing remain a book business as tablets take over?

November 1, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

This post will discuss a realization I had even before this morning’s news about the developing e-products scene. I’ve always been a skeptic about enhanced ebooks, based on seeing my hunch that they wouldn’t work come true 15 years ago with CD-Roms. But it is increasingly obvious that CD-Rom type thinking will work very well […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing Tagged With: Alice fo the iPad, Apple, Callaway Digital Arts, CD-Roms, Disney, Dr. Seuss. Berenstain Bears, Electronic Arts, Google, Hasbro, Hay House, iFund, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Marc Jaffe, Nickelodeon, NOOKcolor, Oceanhouse Media, Publishers Lunch, Rabbit Ears Library, Random House, Rick Richter, Rodale, Ruckus Media Group, Simon & Schuster, Smashing Ideas, The Jungle Book, The Wizard of Oz, Trilogy Studios, War of the Worlds

Amazon adds a feature they ridiculed when Nook announced it a year ago, and the implications

October 24, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle will make a “lending” feature available, allowing “owners” of a Kindle file to enable somebody else to read the book or magazine or newspaper for 14 days. Each purchaser of each ebook will be allowed to make only one such loan one time. They will not have access […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, GoodReads, Googling, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, lending, Nook

The unit of appreciation and the unit of sale

September 26, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

My professional background —  indeed, most of my life that isn’t family, friends, baseball, and politics — is trade publishing: the publishing that is intended for consumers and which got its name becaiuse it has been transacted primarily through “the trade”: bookstores. But this past week I spent two full days with the Publisher Advisory […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Associated Press, CCC, Chicago Tribune, Copyright Clearance Center, Frankfurt Book Fair, Google, Harper Collins UK, IFRRO, Mark Dressler, New York Times, Ronald Schild, Victoria Barnsley

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