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The new Amazon offer to Hachette

July 9, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 235 Comments

I was at 8,000 feet on a mountain hike in Colorado when a reporter called my cell phone, told me about Amazon’s latest “offer” to “resolve” the dispute with Hachette, and asked for my reaction. My first thought was, “wow, what a brilliant move by Amazon and it seems, at first, like a win all […]

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Publisher margins today may be enviable, but it will be a big challenge to keep them that way

June 26, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 33 Comments

The major publishers have apparently worked themselves into a very strong commercial position at the moment with the transition to ebooks. I say “apparently” because the data that gives the most recent rise to that understanding — a presentation by HarperCollins of the current economics — is somewhat incomplete. What Michael Cader reported in Publishers […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Aardvark blog, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Brian Defiore, Brian Murray, DOJ, HarperCollins, Kindle, Michael Cader, Publishers Lunch, Simon & Schuster

Just because the author does a lot of marketing doesn’t mean the publisher can’t help

August 1, 2012 by Jess 30 Comments

The growing (but still tiny) group of very successful self-published authors and those who believe that they are a harbinger of the future have a big stake in the notion that “social network marketing” will replace the “legacy” techniques established over many decades and still employed by many houses. In fact, the houses themselves are […]

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Publishing in the Cloud is the next big important subject

July 9, 2012 by Jess 7 Comments

Much of the change we are living through in publishing is plain as day to see. The shift from print to digital, like the shift from stores to online purchasing, is evident to all of us, inside the industry and out. But there’s another aspect of the change that is not nearly as visible and […]

Filed Under: Conferences, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Technology, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alfredo Santana, Andrea Fleck-Nesbit, BISG, Bonnie Russell, Bowker, Bruce Marcus, Chris Hart, Constellation, Copyright Clearance Center, David C Cook, Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, Firebrand Technologies, Hachette, HarperCollins, IBM, John Wiley, Kaplan Publishing, Ken Michaels, Klopotek, Liberty Fund, McGraw-Hill, Metacomet, Michael Cader, Michael Covington, Patricia Gallagher, Perseus, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Marketplace, Publishing in the Cloud, Ralph Munsen, Random House, Rick Joyce, Rick Schwartz, Rightslink, Tata Consulting Services, TCS, Ted Hill, THA Consulting, The Washington Post, Virtusales, Wayne State University Press, Workman, Yuvi Kochar

Shocking news from the UK: Waterstones selling the Kindle

May 21, 2012 by Jess 31 Comments

The announcement that Waterstones, the nearest UK equivalent to Barnes & Noble as a bookselling chain, will be selling the Kindle in their stores came as somewhat of a shock. There had been rumors that B&N was closing in on a deal to partner with Waterstones on the Nook. The difficulty in making deals around […]

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