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Amazon has done so many smart things that some of the best ones get forgotten

March 9, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

There’s quite a bit of publishing about publishing going on in the next few weeks. British academic John B. Thompson has written a solid scholarly history of book publishing in the past quarter century or so called “Book Wars” that will publish next month, focused on the arrival of ebooks and how publishers and the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Behemoth, "Book Wars", "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know", "The Family Business", Amazon Rising", Baker & Taylor, I2S2, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, iPad, Jeff Bezos, John B. Thompson, Keel Hunt, Kindle, Nook, Robert Paris Riger, Robin Gaster, Rocket Book, Softbook, Sony Reader, West Margin Books

Remembering Jim Haynes, the man with more friends than anybody else

January 25, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

I met Jim Haynes at the first Frankfurt Book Fair I attended, in 1976. I would see him every year when I went back to Frankfurt and any other time I was in Paris, where Jim lived. I think I was one of his ten or fifteen thousand closest friends. Jim’s recent passing in his […]

Filed Under: Conferences, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Publishing History Tagged With: Bob Pettit, Ediburgh Arts Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Frankfurt Book Fair, Jesper Haynes, Jim Haynes, John Lennon, Matisse's atelier, Yoko Ono

The end of the general trade publishing concept

October 19, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

My brilliant friend Joe Esposito has written a piece to explain why Penguin Random House would want to acquire Simon & Schuster.  I have also been thinking about why PRH, or any of the other three of the “Big Five”, would want to acquire S&S. In fact, two of the three, Hachette and HarperCollins, have […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Big Five, Dan Gerstein, Gotham Publishing Solutions, Hachette, HarperCollins, Howtopublishbooks.com, Ingram, IngramSpark, Joe Esposito, John Sargent, Julie Blattberg, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, PRH, Robin Cutler, Simon & Schuster, Tom McCormack

What is causing the uptick in independent bookstores?

January 27, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

My first real job was in a bookstore, on the sales floor of the brand new paperback department in Brentano’s on 5th Avenue in the summer of 1962. I loved that place; I loved that job; and I’ve always had a soft spot for bookstores. But, romanticism aside, the truth is that books are just […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Brentano's, Jeff Bezos

2020: Zero year thoughts about the changes in book publishing

January 7, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Years that end in zeroes summon a natural tendency to look backwards and forwards. So as we enter this century’s decade of The 20s, we’ll do just that. The ideas in this piece analyze what is mostly anecdata: “facts” that are real, that I’ve vetted with people who have lived through these times with me, […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know", 2020, Barnes & Noble, Books in Print, Borders, Dalton, decades and centuries and zero years, In Cold Type, Ingram, Leonard Shatzkin, Lightning Print, Lightning Source, Robert Paris Riger, Robert Riger, St. Martin's Press, Thomas McCormack, Walden

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