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The ebook value chain is still sorting itself out, and so are the splits

November 27, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

The division of the consumer’s dollar across the publishing value chain has a history of change. When I came into the business 50 years ago, discounts from publishers to retailers often topped out at 44% and even wholesalers seldom got more than 48% off the retail price on hardcover books. Today discounts into the mid-50s […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Apple, B&N, BookBaby, Bookmasters, Crown Books, Google, Kobo, Random House, Smashwords

Nothing happens over 4th of July weekend, except this year

July 4, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

Monday, July 4, was supposed to be a quiet day in the publishing business. It turns out it wasn’t. Three developments reported as special holiday bulletins by Publishers Lunch have strategic implications worth pondering that will have trade publishing people all over the world conferring with their friends and colleagues as soon as they shake […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Angus & Robertson, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Christopher Little Agency, Don Engel, Eleanor Shatzkin, F+W Media, Interweave, J.K. Rowling, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft, Mobi, MS Reader, Neil Blair, O'Reilly, Palm, Pearson, Penguin, Publishers Lunch, REDGroup, The Book Depository, Wiley

Technology, curation, and why the era of big bookstores is coming to an end

June 7, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

I stumbled across a Sarah Weinman post from a few months ago that posits the notion that the chain bookstore (by which it would appear she means the superstores of the past 20 years, not the chain bookstores in malls that grew up in the prior 20 years) perhaps had a natural life cycle which […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Avon, B. Dalton, Baker & Taylor, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, Bill Shinker, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Burrows Brothers, Cambridge University Press, Crowell-Collier, Crown Books, curation, Doubleday, Doubleday Merchandising Plan, Iacocca, Ingram, Jack Romanos, Kroch's & Brentano's, Len Shatzkin, Peter Mayer, Rosemary Rogers, Sarah Weinman, Steve Clark, The People's Pharmacy, Walden

Amazon’s Sunshine Program is another wake-up call for the Big Six

June 5, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 31 Comments

Amazon began a program on June 1 that will apparently run for two weeks. When you go to the Kindle home page, there’s a banner across the top reading “Sunshine Deals, Over 600 Books on Sale for $0.99, $1.99, and $2.99”. These books are not from the big agency publishers, who set their own prices. […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Dan Lubart, eBook Market View, iobyte, Kindle, Random House, Sunshine Deals

A Frankfurt reminder: the world is getting smaller

October 11, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

At the conclusion of another Frankfurt Book Fair — my thirty-somethingth — here is something I actually knew before but have taken on board in a whole new way: there is an enormous gap between the US and everyplace else in the Western world (at least) in consumer ebook takeup and acceptance. Here is what […]

Filed Under: Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon.com, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, BookExpo America, Denmark, Frankfurt Book Fair, Holland, Ingram, iPad, Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom", Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Palm Pilot, Slovenia, Sony Reader

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