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7 ways book publishing will change over the next few years

October 8, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

A prior post described the new structure of the book publishing ecosystem. In the past three decades, we have migrated away from a world where a publisher needed to own a substantial infrastructure to deliver printed books to thousands of retail locations. And “back then” and for most of the time since, most book readers […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Publishing, backlist, Costco, Ingram Content Companies, Walmart

One big change in book publishing is that it does not require you to have much of an organization to play anymore

September 30, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

More than two decades into its digital transition, book publishing has evolved so that a capital-intensive infrastructure is no longer a requirement to successfully develop a book, or a list of books, and bring the books to market. This has resulted in a self-publishing segment, so far almost entirely author-driven, that is substantial in reach […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Apple, Audible, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Costco, eBooks, Google, iBookstore, Indigo, Ingram, Ingram Spark, iPad, Kindle, KindleUnlimited, Kobo, Nook, Sony Reader, Walmart

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

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