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Getting to vertical: two disparate examples

March 31, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

Two examples of the shift from horizontal media to vertical have caught my attention in the last week, although both of them have been around for a while. Monday’s “Online Media Daily” has a story about AOL hiring laid-off journalists for its new(ish) cluster of vertical channels. There are 70 such vertical channels already launched, […]

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More on the Google settlement

March 27, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

OK, so what I thought I had figured out earlier isn’t so simple. In a prior post, I “discovered” (for everybody) that it is likely that the biggest revenue opportunity in the pile of books being scanned by Google would be the republishing possibilities among the orphans. I posited that with all those books about […]

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This ebook thing is just going to get more complicated

March 23, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

Adam Hodgkin at the Exact Editions blog posted a piece that explains the ebook strategies of Apple, Amazon, and Google in simple terms. Hodgkin’s piece really helps think things through, but I think his analysis is a bit oversimplified (which is part of why it helps think things through.) Hodgkin sees brilliance in Apple’s move not to […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Hodgkin, Adobe Reader, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Diesel Ebooks, eReader, ExactEditions, Fictionwise, Google, iPhone, Kindle, Michael Tamblyn, Nokia, Powell's, RIM, Scrollmotion, Sony, Stanza, Waterstone's

Writing about Clay Shirky writing about newspapers

March 16, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

One of the great thinkers about digital change is NYU professor Clay Shirky. I have been reading posts and articles from him for years and he is always cogent and sensible. He has just posted a very insightful piece about the challenges faced by newspapers. Shirky doesn’t explictly say that he’s exploring the “vertical/horizontal” dichotomy […]

Filed Under: New Models, Publishing, Uncategorized, Vertical Tagged With: Clay Shirky, newspapers

Amazon in the ebook age, reconsidered

March 4, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

Amazon made a huge leap to the front of the iPhone line. Putting a Kindle reader on the iPhone for free through the App Store enables shopping at Amazon’s Kindle store and then a direct download into the iPhone (or into the Kindle, or both!) This means reasonably good book merchandising and one-click. The reader […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, DRM, epub, interoperability, iPhone, Kindle

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