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Three points worth adding to the excellent account of the Amazon story in The Everything Store

November 4, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

The publication of Brad Stone’s book about Amazon, “The Everything Store”, is the catalyst for a lot of new discussion about the topic most difficult for the book business to discuss. It is pretty much impossible to be in the book business without benefiting from Amazon’s market reach. But it is also pretty standard fare […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", Amazon, Amazon Prime, Barnes & Noble, Brad Stone, Digital Book World, dot lit, I2S2, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, Jeremy Greenfield, John Ingram, Kindle, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Matchbook, Mobipocket, Palm Digital Microsoft, Peter Olson, Random House

The totality of the relationship is what matters

August 6, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

Like a marriage, relationships between people and companies are seldom made or broken on the back of one transaction or one kind of transaction. They are bigger and more complicated than that. That point was driven home in my house over the weekend by the dustup between Time Warner Cable and CBS, which resulted in […]

Filed Under: New Models, Supply-Chain, Unbundling Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, CBS, Channel 2, Channel One, Dexter, F+W Media, Home Depot, iBookstore, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Judge Cote, Kindle, Kobo, Loew's, NFL, Nook, Overstock.com, Penguin Random House, Random House, Raymond Donovan, Showtime, Time Warner Cable

Explaining my skepticism about the likelihood of success for a general subscription model for ebooks

July 22, 2012 by Jess 4 Comments

In a prior post, I observed that the apparently-successful subscription offerings for books were in niches. And I said I believed that a more general subscription model wouldn’t work for ebooks the way it has seemed to work for music (Spotify), movies and TV shows (Netflix), and audiobooks (Audible). By that I meant two things. […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Audible, Bloomsbury, Books24x7, F+W Media, Grove/Atlantic, Kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Leonard Shatzkin, Lonely Planet, Neteflix, Norton, Rosetta Books, Scholastic, Simon Lipskar, Spotify, Workman/Algonquin, Writer's House

Two questions that loom over the trade publishing business

February 28, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 33 Comments

A lot of people in publishing would pay a lot of money to get a reliable answer to these two questions: When will the growth in Amazon’s share of the consumer book business stop? Who will be left standing when it does? I won’t attempt to answer those two questions in this post. In fact, […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Barnes & Noble, Bertelsmann, BN .com, I2S2, Independent Publishers Group, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, IPG, Kindle, Kobo, Macmillan, Nook, Random House

Clever moves all around in the B&N and Amazon chess game

February 8, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

Readers who have been following publishing’s digital transition for two years or more will recall the situation in 2010 when five of publishing’s Big Six switched over from selling their ebooks on wholesale terms, by which the retailer sets the price to the consumer, to agency terms, by which the publisher sets a price that […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders, Daily Finance, Google, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, iBookstore, Indigo, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kobo, Larry Kirshbaum, Melville Hosue, Nook, Random House, Time Business

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