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Medium publishes a book and gets some big PR

October 8, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The New York Times carried a story on the front page of its Friday Business section about a book. This book is a novel entitled (appropriately for this piece) “The Big Disruption” by Jessica Powell. Of course, it is about Silicon Valley, which explains its positioning and why Times columist Farhad Manjoo was interested enough […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, rights, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "The Big Disruption", Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, CreateSpace, Farhad Manjoo, Google, Ingram, IngramSpark, Jessica Powell, Kindle, Kobo, Medium, New York Times

Words-to-be-read are losing ground to words-to-be-heard, a new stage of digital content evolution

June 14, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

“Words-to-be-read” must now become a content category, along with still images, video, and audio. Audio includes “words-to-be-heard”. We are in what must be the early stages of a reordering of primacy among these varieties of “content for delivery and consumption”, which is distinguished from “content for interaction”, or the world of “gamified content” along with […]

Filed Under: Authors, Licensing and Rights, New Models, rights Tagged With: "The 5 Second Rule", Amazon, Audible, Don Katz, John Scalzi, Mel Robbins, New York Times, The New Yorker, words-to-be-heard, words-to-be-read

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

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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