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The Google settlement, answering some of the questions about the windfall

April 18, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

The post from Thursday about the Google “windfall” provoked a lot of information sources to help me understand the settlement, large parts of which I clearly did not. We’ll go over the answers I got (as I understand them; my understanding seems to be a moving target…) to the questions Michael Cairns and I posed […]

Filed Under: Authors, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Book Rights Registry, Google, Michael Cairns, orphan books

The Google settlement and unanswered questions, particularly about the windfall

April 16, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 36 Comments

Michael Cairns and I have both been frustrated with most of the conversation surrounding the Google Book Search settlement. The principal concerns of most of the participants in the dialogue seem to be:  1. Has Google unfairly captured a monopoly on some content? 2. Has the “class” of “orphan authors” been dealt with fairly, since […]

Filed Under: Authors, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Book Rights Registry, Google, Google settlement, Michael Cairns, orphan books

Times Book Review on advances, and related thoughts

April 11, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

The NY Times Book Review published a piece on advances online today to which I was first pointed by Twitter early this morning. I couldn’t tell whether author Michael Meyer was “for ’em or agin’ ’em”. On the one hand, he seemed to suggest that publishers are inclined to overpay, and he cites Public Affairs head […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Bantam, Bill Shinker, Black Plastic Glasses, Evan Schnittman, Iacocca, Michael Meyer, NY Times Book Review, Peter Mayer, Peter Osnos, Princess Daisy, Senator Mark Hatfield

Two anomalies on my desk this morning

April 9, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

While the AAP reports that US book sales are definitely down and my friends in major houses report a decline of 10% or more across the board, that’s not what we’re hearing from Canada and it’s not what we hard from small and midsize publishers responding to our BISG “Shifting Sales Channels” survey. BookNet Canada […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Shifting Sales Channels", AAP, BISG, Booknet Canada, Michael Tamblyn

More on returns, thanks to Michael Cader

April 8, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

Michael Cader responded to my post on returns yesterday (Tuesday, 4/7) with some ruminations of his own. All of them were thoughtful and useful and triggered some additional thoughts from me. Here is Michael’s commentary with thoughts of my own interspersed. I will remain in italics throughout this post. I have posted Michael’s entire response […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Borders, Michael Cader, remainders, returns

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