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What the ruling against the PRH-S&S merger means for the publishing business

November 1, 2022 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Judge Florence Y. Pan ruled today that the acquisition of Simon & Schuster by Penguin Random House could not go forward. The ruling was explicitly to protect the “competition” for the “anticipated top-selling books”. In other words, the big books by big authors for which only the Big Five can compete regularly (with occasional bids […]

Filed Under: Atomization, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Big Five, Hachette, HarperCollins, Ingram, Penguin Random House, PRH, S&S, Simon & Schuster

How book publishing has changed in recent decades and the puzzling question of what comes next

June 19, 2022 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

My book business career (on the fringes since 1958 and pretty fully immersed since 1973) has been spent considering the path from “intellectual property creator” to “book purchaser”. This is a world occupied by authors and packagers and agents; by publishers of various sizes and capabilities coordinating the many tasks and steps from the raw […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, bookstore sales, direct-to-consumer marketing of books, Ingram Content Companies, Ingram Spark, Kindle, online sales

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

The supply chain for book publishing is being changed by Coronavirus too

April 19, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

One thing the pandemic has done is to make everybody more aware of “supply chains”: the path by which a thing gets made and delivered to its ultimate user. Many of us heard many times that a ventilator is constructed of 150 parts that come from all over the world, hinting at the massive logistical […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: "Kitchen Confidential", Anthony Bourdain, carbon dividends, Coronavirus, Ingram Content Companies, John Ingram, Lightning Print, Sarah Palin, Sarasota Institute

The sale of B&N again calls the question of the future of America’s bookstores

June 17, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The most important question in the world of trade publishing is “what will happen to the book trade”, meaning, primarily, the bookstores (but also the other retailers that sell books, the libraries and the wholesalers that supply them). That was the topic of a panel called “The Power of Retail” at BEA in New York […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: ABAn, Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, Dennis Abboud, Elliott Management, James Daunt, Madeline McIntosh, Oren Teicher, Penguin Random House, ReaderLink, Tim Mantel, Waterstone's

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