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Ruminating about returns

April 7, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

The subject of eliminating returns seems to come up more and more frequently these days. Last week we were interviewing a major independent bookseller for our BISG “Shifting Sales Channels” project and they brought it up. In this case, they were complaining about the new “no returns” policy from HarperStudio. As I understand what the […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, BISG, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Ingram, returns

Epiphanies come and go

April 1, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

I was talking to one of the smart C-level people from a major house at a party last June at BEA in Los Angeles. He was very excited about what his company had accomplished. “We’ve set up a database and CMS so we can deliver a web page for every book a web page for […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BN .com, Selling direct

Third old publishing story: tracking POS, and the explosion of backlist sales in the 1970s

March 30, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

In an earlier post, I told the story of Ingram’s introduction of the microfiche reader in the 1970s and what it did for backlist sales. There was another new technology introduced at the same time by the B. Dalton bookstore chain, based in Minneapolis and owned by the Dayton-Hudson Company. At this time, B. Dalton and […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: B. Dalton, Ingram, Waldenbooks

The University of Michigan Press announcement

March 26, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

Day before yesterday (Tuesday), the University of Michigan Press announced that it was no longer doing press runs of scholarly monographs. Henceforth, says the announcement, 50 of the 60 monographs published annually will be done “only as digital editions.” What a retro way to position a progressive decision! Publishing with no offset press run (or […]

Filed Under: eBooks, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: University of Michigan Press

Riffing on Tamblyn’s “6 Things”, Part 1

March 25, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

Michael Tamblyn, the smart and dynamic leader of Booknet Canada who has performed minor miracles with the Canadian supply chain, gave a talk at his company’s tech forum a fortnight ago that has gotten a lot of deserved attention. It’s 30 minutes long, but it flies by and the presentation is great fun: very much […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, Booknet Canada, Bowker, Ingram, Jouve North America, Michael Tamblyn, StartWithXML, The Wiley-O'Reilly Rule, Value-Chain International

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