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By one benchmark at least, we are probably halfway through the (r)evolution

February 13, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

A couple of major (Big Six) publishers have acknowledged that ebook revenues for them have passed 20% of their revenues. Of the 80% that remains print, I think it would be conservative to estimate that 20% of that is sold online. That’s an additional 16 percent of their business. Adding those together tells us that, for at […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Barry Eisler, Big Six, breaking the color line, Doubleday, Ingram, J. A. Konrath, John Locke, John Sargent Sr., Kindle, Leonard Shatzkin, Perseus, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's

John Locke and S&S show us another kind of deal we can expect to see again

August 22, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

OK, now we know another new paradigm for book publishing in the digital age with the announcement of self-publishing author John Locke’s new deal for print distribution with Simon & Schuster. The big publishers have said for a while now that they won’t be signing up books for print rights only. That makes sense, up […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Amazon, Barry Eisler, Donovan Creed, Harry Potter, Houghton Harcourt, J.K. Rowling, John Locke, Pottermore, Simon & Schuster, Telemachus Press, Tim Ferriss

Conceiving issues that will gestate in the next nine months; planning for 2012 Digital Book World

April 19, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 48 Comments

The fact that Publishers Launch Conferences will stage half-a-dozen or more events before our next big multi-day Digital Book World blowout next January doesn’t change the DBW calendar. Now is the time of year when we have to start thinking about what the big issues will be at the turn of the year so we […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, rights, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, BIC, BISG, Hachette, Ingram, iPad, James Long, James Patterson, John Locke, Kindle, London Book Fair, Making Information Pay, Nook Color, O'Reilly, Orbit, Pan Macmillan, Rick Richter, Ruckus Media, Safari, Sara Lloyd, Tara Catogge

Do ebook consumers love bestsellers, or does it just look that way?

March 28, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 61 Comments

In theory, the more books are sold online the more sales should move to the long tail. Online bookstores have the advantage of “unlimited shelf space”. Nothing has to be left out of the assortment because of constraints on capital to stock inventory or room to hold it. Furthermore, as Konrath and Eisler pointed out […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Bowker, Google, iBookstore, Joe Konrath, John Locke, Kindle, Kobo, metadata, Nook

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