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Doubts about the Department of Justice’s objection to the PRH acquisition of S&S

November 16, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

There are, at this moment, still five US commercial book publishers of mega-size. Penguin Random House is the biggest; HarperCollins is 2nd; and Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster round out the Big Five. PRH is, approximately, as big as the other four combined (about $4 billion in sales) and HarperCollins is, approximately, as big […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Binyamin Appelbaum, Costco, Hachette, HarperCollins, Ingram, Lightning Print, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Print-On-Demand, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Tom McCormack, Walmart

Every publishing strategy should start with Amazon and Ingram

October 26, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Having been out of the day-to-day of book publishing for a few years now, and — like most people — cut off from most routine commercial conversations in the nearly two years of the pandemic, I took a look at some recent opportunities I encountered online to catch up with today’s book biz realities through […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Bookbub, Ignition, Ingram, Ingram Insights, IngramSpark, KDP, Kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing, Legible.com, Open Road Integrated Media

Why books are different and why enterprises will be discovering they should be issuing them

July 5, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

My most recent post noted the rise of what I called “enterprise self-publishing”. It increasingly looks to me like enterprise-driven book publishing will become the dominant provider of books over the next decade. What distinguishes it is book publishing as a function in support of other efforts, rather than as a stand-alone business intended to […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, rights, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, Books in Print, Dan Gerstein, Gotham Ghostwriters, Gotham Publishing Solutions, Ingram, IngramSpark, ISBN numbers, Jane Friedman, Kindle Direct Publishing, Substack

“Enterprise self-publishing” is coming: the third great disruption of book publishing since the 1990s

June 20, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The book business is in the early stages of its third great disruption in the past quarter century. The first two both changed the shape of the industry and created winners and losers across the entire value chain: touching every step from how authors got money to how readers got books. Significant institutional players were […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "Enterprise self-publishing", Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book business disruption, Gotham Publishing Solutions, Ingram, IngramSpark

“The Family Business” is Ingram: the global infrastructure for the book industry

April 19, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The global infrastructure for the book business that is not Amazon is owned and operated by the Ingram Content Group. In fact, a lot of the global infrastructure of the book business that is identified as Amazon is actually Ingram. And on top of that, there would probably have been no Amazon, certainly not the […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Behemoth: Amazon Rising" by Robin Gaster, "Book Wars" by John B. Thompson, "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know" by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger, Bronson Ingram, Bruce Harris, Coresource, HarperCollins, Harry Hoffman, Ingram Content Group, Ingram Spark, Jack Stambaugh, John Ingram, Karl Weber, Keel Hunt, Lightning Print, Michael Zibart, Penguin Random House, Tennessee Book Company, Tennessee School Book Depository, Vanderbilt business school

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