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What Oyster going down demonstrates is not mostly about the viability of ebook subscriptions

September 23, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

The news that the general ebook subscription offering Oyster is throwing in the towel was not really a surprise. The business model they were forced to adopt for the biggest publishers — paying full price for each use of a book with a threshold trigger at considerably less than a complete read while, at the […]

Filed Under: Atomization, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Android, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Big Five, Borders, Carolyn Reidy, Entitle, Google, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, iOS, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, KU, Macmillan, New York Times, Oyster, Penguin Random House, Rakuten, Russell Grandinetti, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster

Two pieces of news last week that foretell changes in the ebook marketplace

August 24, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

Two pieces of news this past week and how things play out with them might foretell some things about the direction of the ebook market. One news item is that reading on phones is really taking off.  More than half of ebook consumers use their phones at least some of the time and the number that […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Android, Apple, Apple iBooks, Atria, Baen, Carina, DRM, DRM-free, German ebook market, Google, Google Play, Harlequin, Holtzbrinck, iBooks, interstitial reading, iPhone, James Patterson, Joe Esposito, Judith Curr, Kobo, Molly Barton, Nook, O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media, Palm Pilot, Random House, S&S, Serial Box, Tim O'Reilly, Tom Doherty, Tor

Sony exits and the ebook business loses an original player

February 9, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

Sony has thrown in the towel on the ebook business and turned its customers over to Kobo. This has unleashed speculation that Nook will soon do the same. If B&N were really forced to choose between the investments they need to make in their stores and the investments required to compete in digital delivery, it […]

Filed Under: eBooks, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, AllRomanceebooks, Amazon Source, Android, aNobii, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Bookish, BooksonBoard, Borders, Copia, Diesel, Google, iOS, Kindle, Kobo, Len Riggio, Matchbook, Mobcast, Nook, Oyster, Sainsbury's, Sony, Sony Reader, Tesco, Txtr, Wal-mart, Waterstone's, Zola Books

Three new ebook platforms nearing their debut

August 4, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

A year ago — even six months ago — it seemed like Amazon and its Kindle device had an insurmountable advantage in the ebook device and platform competition. Despite our admonition that Amazon’s dominance of ebooks was much more fragile than their dominance in online print bookselling, even we were impressed and sometimes daunted by […]

Filed Under: Community, eBooks, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Android, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Content Reserve, Copia, DMC, Facebook, Google Editions, Ingram, iPad, Kindle, Microsoft, Nook, Quark, Sony, Toshiba, Windows Phone 7, XPS

Big publishers have reason to be happy about how the book market is evolving

June 21, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

Big publishers have to be very happy about how things have been developing in the ebook world over the last six months or so. In that time, we have gone from a situation in which Kindle appeared to so totally dominate digital reading that Kindle-only publishing seemed an imminent threat to disintermediate publishers to one […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Adobe Digital Editions, Amazon, Android, B&N, Blackberry, Blio, Borders, Calibre, Copia, DRM, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, Kirk Biglione, Kobo, Nook, Sony Reader

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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