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Fleshing out The Times’s ebook story of May 17

May 17, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

I love and value The New York Times. But I have to admit that every time they write about something I know a lot about, it makes me wonder whether they’re complete and accurate when they write about the things I don’t know a lot about. There’s nothing wildly inaccurate in Motoko Rich’s “Week in Review” […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Blackberry, Borders, Brian Murray, eReader, Fictionwise, Google Android, iPhone, Kindle, Motoko Rich, New York Times, Scrollmotion, Stanza

Ideas triggered by Amazon buying Lexcycle

April 28, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 24 Comments

The acquisition of Lexcycle by Amazon sure got all the digerati’s creative juices flowing. What is becoming increasingly clear is that general trade publishers have a card to play here that the niche publishers can only join in on: creating a collectively-owned ebook “store” that can provide an economic baseline for the emerging ebook marketplace. […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Coursesmart, Filedby.com, GoodReads, Google, Lexcycle, LibraryThing, Michael Cairns, Shelfari, Smashwords

Epiphanies come and go

April 1, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

I was talking to one of the smart C-level people from a major house at a party last June at BEA in Los Angeles. He was very excited about what his company had accomplished. “We’ve set up a database and CMS so we can deliver a web page for every book a web page for […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BN .com, Selling direct

This ebook thing is just going to get more complicated

March 23, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

Adam Hodgkin at the Exact Editions blog posted a piece that explains the ebook strategies of Apple, Amazon, and Google in simple terms. Hodgkin’s piece really helps think things through, but I think his analysis is a bit oversimplified (which is part of why it helps think things through.) Hodgkin sees brilliance in Apple’s move not to […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Hodgkin, Adobe Reader, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Diesel Ebooks, eReader, ExactEditions, Fictionwise, Google, iPhone, Kindle, Michael Tamblyn, Nokia, Powell's, RIM, Scrollmotion, Sony, Stanza, Waterstone's

A few thoughts, some near heretical, about DRM

March 18, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 18 Comments

I got a call today from Laura Sydell of NPR in San Francisco to have a conversation about DRM. I found myself telling the story this way. From the beginning, there were multiple ebook formats, the leading ones being Adobe, Palm, and Microsoft Dot Lit for a time, with Mobi originally intended to be the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Adobe, Amazon, Blackberry, Brian O'Leary, DRM, IDPF, iPhone, Kindle, Laura Sydell, Microsoft Reader, O'Reilly, Palm, Random House

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