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But what if it gets really easy to deliver apps or enhanced ebooks?

May 2, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

This is an unusually brief post today, but some worthy observations don’t require long explanations. I wrote nearly 18 months ago about my concern that publishers’ interest in enhanced ebooks would bring on a repeat of the commercially disastrous CD-Rom era of the mid-1990s. Of course, since the CD-Rom era, a lot has changed. * […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing Tagged With: "Gems and Jewels", "The Solar System", Apple, BEA, BISG, Blio, CCC, Charlie Melcher, David Marlin, eBooks Go Global, Google App Inventor, Hachette, Heather Reid, Ken Michaels, Kindle, Making Information Pay, Metacomet, Michael Cader, Mother Vook, Push Pop, Scott Lubeck, Smashwords, The Elements, Touch Press, Vook, Yapper, Zinio Fusion

Conceiving issues that will gestate in the next nine months; planning for 2012 Digital Book World

April 19, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 48 Comments

The fact that Publishers Launch Conferences will stage half-a-dozen or more events before our next big multi-day Digital Book World blowout next January doesn’t change the DBW calendar. Now is the time of year when we have to start thinking about what the big issues will be at the turn of the year so we […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, rights, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, BIC, BISG, Hachette, Ingram, iPad, James Long, James Patterson, John Locke, Kindle, London Book Fair, Making Information Pay, Nook Color, O'Reilly, Orbit, Pan Macmillan, Rick Richter, Ruckus Media, Safari, Sara Lloyd, Tara Catogge

I thought I was writing a blog, but it turns out I wrote a book!

April 15, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

An ebook of the first two years of The Shatzkin Files is now available and will be linked for the forseeable future from our left nav bar. This post is the introduction to the ebook, which explains how it came about. My friend, Joe Esposito, first told me about blogs in the early part of […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Bobby Kennedy, Cameron Drew, David Drew, Google Editions, Gwyn Headley, iPad, Joe Esposito, Kindle, Kobo, Leonard Shatzkin, Mayor Richard Daley, Nook, Pierre Salinger, Richard Charkin, The View from Underneath, UCLA Daily Bruin

It will be hard to find a public library 15 years from now

April 8, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 68 Comments

I spoke last week to a group in Montreal convened by the English-language Publishers of Quebec and the Quebec Writers Association in a small auditorium at the Atwater Library. The Atwater Library is a private library with very limited government funding which is more than 100 years old. (The Globe and Mail article that quoted […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, libraries, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Atwater Library, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, English-language Publishers of Quebec, Gary Price, Globe and Mail, Ingram, Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Forum, Quebec Writers Association

It’s official: putting books in stores is a subsidiary right

April 4, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 25 Comments

The headline in a number of places was that Amazon was now aggressively going after exclusives for their Kindle line and actually bid against the publishers for Amanda Hocking’s trade books. The enabling component, as reported in Publishers Lunch, was that Houghton Harcourt is now Amazon’s trade book distributor. Except please don’t call it that. […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barry Eisler, Bruce Nichols, Houghton Harcourt, Kindle, Publishers Lunch

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