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Amazon might lose interest in total hegemony over the book business before they achieve it

November 5, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 25 Comments

The industry got the news that Amazon was probably reassessing its own publishing program a couple of weeks ago when it was announced that Laurence Kirshbaum was stepping down as the head of Amazon Publishing and being replaced by a 14-year veteran of the Seattle company, Daphne Durham. Whatever are Durham’s strengths and connections, they […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", "Wool", Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Brad Stone, Countdown Clock, Daphne Durham, GoodReads, Google, Hugh Howey, Jeff Bezos, Laurence Kirshbaum, Macmillan, Matchbook, Penguin Random House, Penny Marshall, Timothy Ferriss

No-inventory publishing changes everything for everybody and nobody will escape making adjustments

October 7, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

A somewhat overwrought article in Wired calling ebooks an “abomination” because they “price people out of reading” provokes thinking about how much the business models for the trade book business are changing. The article’s weakness stems from its focus on the pricing decisions publishers are making in selling print and ebooks to libraries when those […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Vertical Tagged With: HarperCollins, Hugh Howey, John Locke, Osprey, Publishers Launch Marketing Conference, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Tesco

7 starter principles for digital book marketing learned from Peter McCarthy

August 12, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

Times are changing in publishing and publishers know it. Almost every publisher recognizes that their value to authors, and therefore their future, is dependent on their ability to deliver effective marketing at scale. In this day and age, that means digital marketing, which also has the characteristic of being “data-driven” marketing. And not only is […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Conferences, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Angela Tribelli, behavior, Biztegra, BN .com, Brad Thomas Parsons, demographics, Erica Curtis, Facebook, GoodReads, Hachette, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jeff Dodes, LinkedIn, Matt Litts, Matt Schwartz, Miriam Parker, Murray Izenwasser, New York Review, Open Road, Penguin, Penny Sansevieri, Peter McCarthy, psychographics, Rachel Chou, Random House, Running Press, Smithsonian, Sourcebooks, St. Martin's Press, Susie Sizoler, The Reader's Catalog, Twitter

Finding the right digital services is today’s challenge for publishers

August 8, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

The era of digital change in publishing has given rise to a slew of service propositions to help publishers with their new infrastructure needs. This is both essential and also nothing new. It has always been necessary for publishers to execute on core needs by getting help at scale. There was a time when publishers […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology, Unbundling Tagged With: Apex, Ashley Mabbitt, Bill Kasdorf, Digital Book World, John Wiley & Sons, Ted Hill, THA Consulting

Anybody Press is the new member of the Big Six (for ebooks, at least)

June 17, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

Bowker reported last week that 12% of the ebooks being bought now are self-published. There was skepticism about the methodology from The Digital Reader and Good e-Reader says Bowker’s data should be taken “with a grain of salt”. But the exact number doesn’t matter; the trend does. The share of the consumer ebook dollar going […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Hangman's Daughter", "Wool", Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bowker, CreateSpace, Good eReader, Hachette, HarperCollins, Houghton Harcourt, Hugh Howey, Lightning Source, Penguin Random House, Peter McCarthy, Simon & Schuster, The Digital Reader

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