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Merchandising ebooks is a problem not really solved yet

June 14, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 30 Comments

I have always been in the process of reading at least one book since I was about 8 years old. When I was a little kid, I’d find them in the house (Dad was in publishing) or at the library in my home village of Croton-on-Hudson or in the school library. Sometimes extraordinary measures delivered […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Bookish, Gene McCarthy, George McGovern, Google ebooks, James Patterson, John Locke, Kindle, Kobo, Landmark Books, Making of the President 1968, Nook, Palm Digital, Pierre Salinger, Random House, Robert Kennedy, The Shatzkin Files, Theodore White

A debate across panels is coming at our London show on June 21

June 8, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

It looks like we’re going to have a bit of an unintended debate stretching across several of our panels at the Publishers Launch show in London. Since I’m the guy who put the show together, I can speak with authority to the fact that it was really unintended. But I consider it serendipitous and proof […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAR, Branch Rickey, Charlie Campbell, Curtis Brown, David Miller, Diversion, Ed Victor Ltd., Ereads, F+W Media, Jonny Geller, Michael Cader, O'Reilly, Peter Cox, Philip Jones, Publishers Association, Redhammer, Richard Charkin, Richard Curtis, Richard Mollett, Rogers Coleridge and White, Scott Waxman, StartWithXML, Toby Mundy, Tools of Change

Technology, curation, and why the era of big bookstores is coming to an end

June 7, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

I stumbled across a Sarah Weinman post from a few months ago that posits the notion that the chain bookstore (by which it would appear she means the superstores of the past 20 years, not the chain bookstores in malls that grew up in the prior 20 years) perhaps had a natural life cycle which […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Avon, B. Dalton, Baker & Taylor, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, Bill Shinker, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Burrows Brothers, Cambridge University Press, Crowell-Collier, Crown Books, curation, Doubleday, Doubleday Merchandising Plan, Iacocca, Ingram, Jack Romanos, Kroch's & Brentano's, Len Shatzkin, Peter Mayer, Rosemary Rogers, Sarah Weinman, Steve Clark, The People's Pharmacy, Walden

eBook sales comparisons to print aren’t always what they seem

May 20, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

When Amazon talks about how ebooks are selling in relation to print books, as they did again this week, they are comparing apples to apples. They are comparing what their customers bought in digital form versus what they bought in print in any given period of time. When PW or the AAP or even the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, agency, Amazon, Borders, PW, Random House

Consignment might be helpful, but it is not a panacea and not easy to implement

May 18, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 18 Comments

One of the commenters on the blog asked last week about consignment selling, because, he believes, a number of publishers are entertaining it. (I am not personally aware of that, but it doesn’t seem unreasonable that they would be contemplating it.) This is a subject I’ve paid some attention to over the years, partly because […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Borders, Consignment

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