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Nine places to look in 2014 to predict the future of publishing

January 1, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

The digital transition of the trade book publishing business, which I would date from the opening of Amazon.com in 1995, enters its 20th year in 2014. Here are some of the ponderables as we close out the first two decades of a process of very rapid change that is far from over. 1. What’s going […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Big One, Big Six, Curtis Brown, Derek Jeter, Diversion, E-Reads, Entitle, eReatah, Following Four, Hugh Howey, iPad, John Locke, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Matchbook, O'Reilly, Oyster, Pearson, Penguin Random House, PRH, Rosetta, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Writer's House

Looking at predictions from here going back a few years

December 13, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

Prediction posts are common blog- and article-fodder at the end of a calendar year. I don’t think we’ll do one this time around, but I thought it would be fun to review some of the prediction posts from prior years. So pardon the highly self-referential post, but I think reviewing the predictions and reality from […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Amazon Publishing, Apple, Authonomy, Barnes & Noble, Bob Miller, BookArmy, Borders, HarperCollins, iPhone, iPod, John Ingram, Kindle, Mary Ann Naples, Mediander, Michael Cader, Mike Fine, Penguin, Predictions, PW, Random House, Simon Lipskar

No, Mike Shatzkin did NOT say that publishing is spiraling down the drain

November 21, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 18 Comments

As part of the promotion of the Digital Book World conference, I do some interviewing with the very capable Jeremy Greenfield, the editor of their blog. And Jeremy takes our conversations and chops them up into short pieces around the themes of our show. Since the focus of Digital Book World is “how digital is […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Arthur Klebanoff, Barnes & Noble, Bendict Evans, Bowker, Brad Stone, E-Reads, Jane Friedman, Jeremy Greenfield, Joan Didion, Joe Esposito, John Gregory Dunne, KDP Select, Open Road Media, Phil Sexton, Professor Dana Beth Weinberg, Richard Curtis, Rosetta Books, Writer's Digest

Now HERE is an experiment that looks like it worked and is worthy of replication

October 31, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

The new opportunity to publish a book without printed inventory has been popularized primarily by self-publishing authors and by new fledgling publishing enterprises like Entangled and Byliner following in the footsteps of earlier pioneers like eReads and Ellora’s Cave and, more recently, Open Road. This changes the economics of publishing substantially, taking a very large […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Alibi, Byliner, Carina Press, Corriere della Sera, Ellora's Cave, Entangled, Ereads, Flirt, Harlequin, HarperCollins, HarperTeen Impulse, Hydra, Loveswept, Marcello Vena, Open Road, Random House, RCS Libri, Rizzoli Lab, You Crime

Book marketers need to rethink three things: time, timing, and budgeting

October 23, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

The three big shifts taking place in trade book publishing are very much interrelated. The fact that consumers are buying about half their books online is one. That means that publishers are not entirely dependent on books being placed at retail to make sales, which is the second. And the marketing that used to take […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter

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