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Ebook growth explosive; serious disruptions around the corner

August 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 42 Comments

The news about trade ebook sales growth continues apace. The IDPF has just said that sales in June 2009 were up 136% over June a year ago. Calendar year sales to date are up about 150% over 2008. Anecdotal information from big trade houses suggests that ebook sales are approaching 3% of total sales. But […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barbara Kingsolver, Barnes & Noble, Content Reserve, Dan Brown, E.L. Doctorow, IDPF, Indigo, John Irving, Jon Krakauer, Kindle, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Attwood, Michael Crichton, Pat Conroy, Philip Roth, Random House, Scribd, Shortcovers, Smashwords, Sony Reader

Aside from the publishers: how the other stakeholders fare as ebook adoption continues

July 21, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

In three prior posts, we’ve explored the initial conversation that surrounded the announcement that Sourcebooks would delay the ebook release of Bran Hambric; sketched out what we think are the four stages of ebook adoption; and looked at how publishers see the early “establishment” stage, which is where we are now. This post is about the […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Add new tag, Adobe Reader, Amazon, B&N, Baker & Taylor, BookSurge, Bran Hambric, Content Reserve, Diesel Ebooks, dot lit, IDPF, Indigo, Kindle, Microsoft, Mobipocket, OverDrive, Palm Digital, Palm Pilot, Peanut Press, Powell's, Scribd, Smashwords, Sony Reader, Sourcebooks

A context in which to evaluate ebook strategies

July 19, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

This post is part of a growing set initiated by the Sourcebooks experiment holding back an ebook from simultaneous publication with an upcoming hardcover. It is the second (link to the first below) and will be followed by at least one more, as the conclusion of this post makes clear. To talk sensibly about the […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, B&N, Borders, Bran Hambric, Cool-er Reader, DRM, Elonex, Indigo, iPhone, Kindle, Scribd, Shortcovers, Sony Reader, Sourcebooks

Reality changes more slowly than I like to think

July 8, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I did a panel yesterday at NYU as part of the summer publishing program on “New Visions” for publishing. The group was put together by Leslie Schnur. I shared the stage with four very articulate co-presenters who gave very diverse views of the future. Our audience was a full room of about 50-100 (I wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Chuckles, eBooks, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Author Solutions, Brian O'Leary, Carol Hoenig, Cookstr, Dan Simon, Leslie Schnur, Magellan Media, NYU, Seven Stories Press, Will Schwalbe

Family businesses

June 24, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

The New York Times had a story on Tuesday morning about an advantage the Ford Motor Company had over its competitors at GM and Chrysler: it is still family-owned. As the Times explained, the family ownership was able to take a longer view than their competitors. In fact, we still don’t know whether the re-tooling […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Bookmasters, Borders, Chrysler, Dave Wurster, Doubleday, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Ford, GM, Ingram, John Ingram, John Wiley & Sons, Lightning Print, New York Times, Peter Wiley, Roger Straus, Scribners, Sterling

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