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Serious disruption just over the near horizon

April 7, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 74 Comments

The monthly release of ebook sales figures by the IDPF provides a regular reminder about how fast this market is growing and it always provokes me to project the curve into the future and think about the implications. It was an IDPF data release that triggered the thought that we needed a “Tipping Points” panel […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Author Solutions, BISG, Bookmasters, Carolyn Reidy, IDPF, Lulu, Making Information Pay, Simon & Schuster, Ted Hill

Are free ebooks a good idea or not?

January 24, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 47 Comments

Kindle is certainly engendering a lot of confusion by billboarding the downloads of free ebooks as “sales.” That paradoxical scorekeeping was the lead for an article by Motoko Rich in The New York Times on Saturday that quoted a lot of people, some apparently disagreeing with each other, but none of them necessarily wrong. There […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Free", Amazon, Brian O'Leary, Chris Anderson, David Young, DRM, Hachette, Harper Collins, HarperStudio blog, Hyperion, Kindle, Kobo, Len Shatzkin, Magellan Media, Michael Tamblyn, Mindy Stockfield, Motoko Rich, New York Times, Penguin, Random House, Steve Ross, Tim McCall, USA Today

A baker’s dozen predictions for 2010

December 30, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 90 Comments

It is customary for those of us who do crystal-ball gazing to make some calls about the year ahead at around the time the celebrants head for Times Square. I am not a man to flout custom. Here are some of the things I expect we’ll see in 2010. 1. At least one major book […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Blio, Enhanced ebooks, Google, Google Editions, Kobo, predictions 2010, Shortcovers, Sony, territorial rights

Literary agents and the changing world of trade publishing

November 14, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 32 Comments

who can see the digital book possibilities in every idea before you peddle it. I had a lunch conversation this week with three successful literary agents, who will remain anonymous for this post. They wanted to talk about the panel we’re having at Digital Book World called “The Changing Author-Agent Relationship: How Will It Affect the […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: AAR, Author Solutions, Bookmasters, Hay House, lulu.com, Richard Curtis, Smashwords, Ted Hill, Writer's Digest Conference

The new Thomas Nelson self-publishing initiative; more questions than answers

October 14, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

The announcement was made earlier this week through the Wall Street Journal and the blog of the publisher’s CEO, Michael Hyatt, that one of the giants of Christian publishing, Thomas Nelson, will be publishing a new list under an imprint to be called WestBow Press. The books will come from Author Solutions, the provider of […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Author Solutions, Michael Hyatt, Thomas Nelson, WestBow Press

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