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Temperature check from two US CEOs at Frankfurt 2017

October 18, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

It is no surprise that the public remarks at Frankfurt by Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle and Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy contain gems worth pondering. Book publishing has been fortunate to have really smart people leading the biggest companies during our period of digital transition. The apparent collusion over the implementation of […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Hunger Games", "The Fault in Our Stars", Amazon, Author Earnings, Carolyn Reidy, Data Guy, Harry Potter Twilight, Hugh Howey, John Green, Macmillan, Markus Dohle, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Tor Books

Amazon and the future of physical retail

September 20, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

There are two parallel conversations about the future of retail that are quite active. One is within the book business and it centers around what the future will be — and will there be one? — for Barnes & Noble. The other one is about the future of retail competitors to Amazon in the broader […]

Filed Under: New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", Amazon, Atlantic, B&N, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Borders, Brad Stone, Business Insider, JC Penney, Macy's, Nathan Bransford, New York Times, Sears, Time, Warren Buffet

Are the tech giants too big to be good partners for book publishing?

August 21, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

An online discussion forum that includes publishers and librarians and tech people usually sends me several emails a day. About 10 days ago, a conversation evolved about Google Book Search and the Google Library Project, two initiatives by the search giant that were initiated in the early part of the last decade. Because both programs […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Technology Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Book Rights Registry, David Young, Facebook, Firebrand, Google Book Search, Google LIbrary Project, Hachette Book Group USA, HathiTrust, Ingram, Microsoft, Penguin Random House

Strategies to cut overheads in a shrinking book business make a lot of sense

July 31, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

An inexorable reality of today’s commercial book publishing world is that it is shrinking. Although there have been no obvious signs yet that actual long-form book reading itself has declined (even though that would seem a likely consequence over time of the changed ways we get our reading inputs), the self-publishing and indie segment of […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, F+W Publishing, Ingram, Perseus

First impressions of an Amazon bookstore

May 29, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

The new just-opened Amazon bookstore in Manhattan made my wife think of an airport bookstore or a “gallery, where the books are displayed rather than sold”. Everything is faced out. The selection is limited. An airport bookstore would almost certainly have a different mix of titles: far fewer cookbooks (the Amazon store gives them quite […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Barnes & Noble, Brentano, Brentano's, Columbus Circle, Kindle, Nook

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