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Big publisher bashing again with fictional facts

September 14, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 54 Comments

The estimable Clay Shirky has written a lengthy piece called “Amazon, Publishers, and Readers” on medium.com saying, essentially, that an Amazon-dominated world would be an improvement over the Big Five “cartel”-dominated world of publishing we have today. This is an apples to oranges comparison. The Big Five are not nearly as broad a cartel as […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Apple, Big Five, Clay Shirky, Digital Book World 2015, DRM, Hachette, Kindle, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, Pocket Books, Russ Grandinetti, Steve Coll

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

The ebook marketplace is a long way from settled

May 7, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

When we put on conferences, we sometimes book speakers because of who they are, or who their company is, but we also do our best to make sure the content of their presentation will be useful to our audience. So I had booked Matteo Berlucchi, the CEO of the British ebook startup Anobii, to speak […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, Brian Murray, Charlie Redmayne, Cory Doctorow, Donnelley, DRM, HarperCollins, iBooks, IPG, J.K. Rowling, John Sargent, Kindle, LibreDigital, Macmillan, Matteo Berlucchi, Microsoft, Nook, Penguin, Pottermore, Publishers Launch London, Random House

We’re getting SaaS-y, going Hollywood, and starting to plan Digital Book World 2013

May 2, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

It is hard to believe that we’re starting to plan the fourth annual Digital Book World conference, which will be held January 16-17, 2013 at the Hilton in New York City. But we are. The first DBW was held in 2010. Planning for it began the June before when David Nussbaum and Sara Domville of […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Conferences, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", ABC, AcademicPub, Amazon, aNobii, Book Country, CBS, Copyright Clearance Center, David Houle, David Nussbaum, Digital Book World 2013, F+W Media, Fox, HarperCollins, Hyperion, Macmillan, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, NBC, O'Reilly, Pottermore, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishers Launch Hollywood, Publishing in the Cloud, Rightslink, S&S, SaaS, Safari, Sara Domville, Semi-Linear, Sourcebooks, Tor.com

What’s the greater fear for publishers? Amazon or piracy?

March 27, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 93 Comments

Pottermore changed the game this morning. Congratulations to Charlie Redmayne, their CEO. The “aha” moment for me was when somebody on a listserv mentioned they’d bought Kindle editions of the seven Harry Potter books which, it had been announced, were available only from the Pottermore site. Penny drops. First thought: Hnh? How did that happen? […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Barnes & Noble, Beatles, Big Six, Bookish, Brian Murray, Charlie Redmayne, HarperCollins, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, John Sargent, Kindle, LibreDigital, Macmillan, Matteo Berlucchi, Pottermore, Random House

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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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