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One takeaway from Digital Book World that is not to be missed

January 30, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

I think just about everybody has fun at Digital Book World, but it is hard to have more fun there than I do. It’s damn near a year of work coming together over a couple of days with dozens of smart speakers making me personally look good for putting them on the program. So they […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: All Romance, Allromanceebooks.com, aNobii, BISAC, Bloomberg Business Week, Carina, DRM, Hachette, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Jeff Stone, Kindle, Kobo, Larry Kirshbaum, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, Nook, Penguin, Random House, Time Warner Book Group

Competing with Amazon is not an easy thing to do

December 6, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 56 Comments

Amazon has three pretty powerful things going for them, and two are entirely their own doing. Number one: Amazon is, by far, the most book-industry-focused company that is actually active in endeavors much larger than the book business. Barnes & Noble and Ingram are just as focused, but they really don’t go beyond the book […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Apple, B&N, Bookish, Copia, Google, Kobo, Laura Hazard Owen, Steve Jobs

Can big publishers actually do tech and make books at the same time?

October 27, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

Something caught my eye this week that has been very little commented upon elsewhere: the news that Hachette Book Group developed an app-making capability that they are now licensing out. Their first customer was Round Table Companies, a book packager. I found this striking because big book publishers are not generally known for developing technology; […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amazon, aNobii, Book Country, Bookish, Charlotte Abbott, Hachette Book Group, Molly Barton, Penguin, Random House, Round Table Companies, Scholastic, Smashing Ideas

Kobo’s new deals propel them into the top tier of global ebook competitors

October 16, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

The week I spend each year at the Frankfurt Book Fair is always the most stimulating week of my professional year. The concentration of the best thinkers and most powerful people in publishing always seems to lead me to a new burst of understanding about our global publishing world, particularly in these times of rapid […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Bookish, Copia, European Competition Commission, European Union, FNAC, Frankfurt Book Fair, Google, Kobo, Sony, Waterstone's, WHSmith

Publishing is living in a world not of its own making

July 24, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 32 Comments

A big ebook shoe dropped on Sunday. It dropped on Kobo first. And it has nothing to do with Borders. Kobo just delivered a new iOS (that’s Apple’s operating system for iPad and iPhone) app that no longer contains the direct link to the Kobo bookstore within it. That means that buying new Kobo books […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: aNobii, Barnes & Noble, Bookish, Borders, Google, iBookstore, iOS, iPad, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Nook Children's, 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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