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Lots of Spanish speakers in the United States, but not so much of a book market for Spanish books

April 19, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Somebody somewhere reported last month that the United States is the home country to the second largest number of Spanish-speakers in the world, after Mexico. Since I am speaking in Madrid to Spanish publishers at the end of May, that seemed like something I should learn more about. The US must be a market. The […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, rights, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Uncategorized, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, American Book Group, Atria, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Costco, Dan Brown, E L James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George R. R. Martin, Hachette, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Espanol, HarperCollins Iberica, Ingram, Isabel Allende, Jenni Rivera, John Grisham, Judith Curr, Junot Diaz, Laura Esquivel, Paulo Coelho, Penguin Random House, PRH Grupo Editorial, ReaderLink, Roberto Bolano, Sandra Cisneros, Simon & Schuster, Spanish Publishers, Stephen King

Stability in the book marketplace does not mean commercial publishers continue to maintain their share

December 12, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

Publishing reporters doing wrap up stories occasionally call me for impressions. From those conversations I have gleaned that the prevailing impression of where the book business is now is of “stability”. The consensus about adult trade is that ebook sales have stalled or perhaps even receded, that print is strong, and that the big publishers […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Ann Arbor Public Library, Apple iBooks, BISG, Boston Globe, Carolyn Reidy, Chicago Tribune, Cuyahoga County Library System, Kindle Unlimited, Michael Cader, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, S&S, Tbooks, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post

Ten Years Ago Amazon Started A Revolution and It Just Gave Me a Very Good Month

November 30, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

Ten years ago, Amazon released the first Kindle device. There had been electronic book reading devices before the Kindle and, indeed, the Sony ereader was actively in the market when Kindle arrived. (Others, like Rocketbook and Softbook, had perished for lack of interest.) Kindle and Amazon succeeded where others failed for several reasons. First and […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing Tagged With: "The View from Section 111", "When the Knicks Became Champs", Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Diversion Books, iBookstore, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Prentice-Hall, Scott Waxman, Shatzkin Files, Simon Collinson

Are the tech giants too big to be good partners for book publishing?

August 21, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

An online discussion forum that includes publishers and librarians and tech people usually sends me several emails a day. About 10 days ago, a conversation evolved about Google Book Search and the Google Library Project, two initiatives by the search giant that were initiated in the early part of the last decade. Because both programs […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Technology Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Book Rights Registry, David Young, Facebook, Firebrand, Google Book Search, Google LIbrary Project, Hachette Book Group USA, HathiTrust, Ingram, Microsoft, Penguin Random House

Digital marketing scales and that could create new opportunities for capable publishers

July 17, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

There are three new promotion and marketing opportunities for publishers of ebooks that have been created by the original upstart ebook publisher, Open Road Integrated Media. They all come from OR/M’s development of tools to promote their own extensive list of ebooks, but which now actually benefit from the inclusion of a broader array of […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Scale, SEO, Supply-Chain, Unbundling Tagged With: Bookbub, Bookperk, Early Bird Books, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jane Friedman, Open Road Media, OR/M, Porter Anderson, The Hot Sheet

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