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7 ways book publishing will change over the next few years

October 8, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

A prior post described the new structure of the book publishing ecosystem. In the past three decades, we have migrated away from a world where a publisher needed to own a substantial infrastructure to deliver printed books to thousands of retail … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Publishing, backlist, Costco, Ingram Content Companies, Walmart

One big change in book publishing is that it does not require you to have much of an organization to play anymore

September 30, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

More than two decades into its digital transition, book publishing has evolved so that a capital-intensive infrastructure is no longer a requirement to successfully develop a book, or a list of books, and bring the books to market. This has resulted … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Apple, Audible, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Costco, eBooks, Google, iBookstore, Indigo, Ingram, Ingram Spark, iPad, Kindle, KindleUnlimited, Kobo, Nook, Sony Reader, Walmart

A lot has changed in book publishing in the last ten years

July 23, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

I am returning this September to speak at Digital Book World, a conference I helped to found and then programmed for its first seven years. (One motivation to go back is to promote my new book.) The occasion calls for some reflection. DBW itself has … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, Borders, Digital Book World, Ingram, iPad, Nook, Print-On-Demand, YouTube

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 … [Continue reading]

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

Tamblyn sees a new era for bookselling that might be a new era for publishing as well

May 13, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Michael Tamblyn, who heads up the Kobo global ebook operation, delivered a brilliant talk at the BISG Annual Meeting last week. The meat of his speech was to instruct publishers in very specific terms how to title, price, release, and identify their … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, BISG, CreateSpace, Ingram, IngramSpark, Michael Tamblyn

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