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Amazon share grows and big publishers make more money

February 26, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The financial reports of the major publishers have been following a pattern for some years now. Sales are about flat but profits have been steadily rising. One explanation for that fact is that the management of the major houses have been diligent about adapting their businesses to the new marketplace configurations or, as the saying […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know", Amazon, Audible, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, BISG, Book Industry Study Group, Brentano's Bookstore, CreateSpace, Ingram, KDP, Kindle Digital Publishing, Lightning Source, Michael Cader, Oxford University Press, Robert Paris Riger, Senator Amy Klobuchar, The Strand

Imprint consolidation at big houses is a sign of changed times

October 25, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

I had reason to learn recently that Ingram has 16 million individual titles loaded in their Lightning Source database ready to be delivered as a bound book to you within 24 hours, if not sooner. So every book coming into the world today is competing against 16 million other books that you might buy. That […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "Little Random", Amazon, Atria, Cato Institute, CreateSpace, Crown, Gallery, Ingram Spark, Kindle, Lightning Source, Macmillan, Random House, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Tom McCormack, Touchstone

The dominance of Amazon needs to be addressed but it is far more attributable to natural circumstances than it is anybody’s fault

May 7, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

As things evolve in an era of rapid change, it is human nature to assign credit or blame for any drastic alterations in circumstances. And so we have the book business, with its last remaining chain store behemoth, Barnes & Noble, in a period of obvious decline and presenting the clear possibility that the book […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Crown Books, David Leonhardt, Facebook, Google, I2S2, Ingram, Oren Teicher, The New York Times, US Department of Justice

Temperature check from two US CEOs at Frankfurt 2017

October 18, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

It is no surprise that the public remarks at Frankfurt by Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle and Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy contain gems worth pondering. Book publishing has been fortunate to have really smart people leading the biggest companies during our period of digital transition. The apparent collusion over the implementation of […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Hunger Games", "The Fault in Our Stars", Amazon, Author Earnings, Carolyn Reidy, Data Guy, Harry Potter Twilight, Hugh Howey, John Green, Macmillan, Markus Dohle, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Tor Books

Are the tech giants too big to be good partners for book publishing?

August 21, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

An online discussion forum that includes publishers and librarians and tech people usually sends me several emails a day. About 10 days ago, a conversation evolved about Google Book Search and the Google Library Project, two initiatives by the search giant that were initiated in the early part of the last decade. Because both programs […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Technology Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Book Rights Registry, David Young, Facebook, Firebrand, Google Book Search, Google LIbrary Project, Hachette Book Group USA, HathiTrust, Ingram, Microsoft, Penguin Random House

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