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Some ebook observations

April 20, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 24 Comments

Just had a very busy day at the London Book Fair. It is hard to post from here; I don’t have my normal 12 or more hours a day at the keyboard of my laptop. But what Book Fairs are all about is the compressed opportunity to encounter smart and knowledgeable people and I had […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: App Stores, Apple, B&N, ebook discounts, Google, London Book Fair, RIM, Stanza

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

The Digital State of Play in the US

April 16, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

…in the 21st century, the net is flipping this on us. The net tends to self-organize us by subject niche, so the eyeballs and human bandwidth are linked to the niches, which are vertical, not horizontal. And because web interaction is about file exchanges, format specificity is meaningless. The file can hold text, art or photographs or other graphics, animation, moving images, sound, games, or code that helps us combine, sort, or tag things

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Audible, B2B, B2C, Barnes & Noble, Bookreads, BookSurge, Borders, CBS, Content Reserve, DAD, eBooks, Facebook, Hachette, Harlequin, horizontal, Ingram, International Digital Publishing Forum, iTunes, Kindle, libraries, LibraryThing, LibreDigital, Lightning, Market Publishers, Microsoft, Mobi, MySpace, Open Social, OpenSocial, Paml, Penguin, Print-On-Demand, Quamut, Random House, SharedBook, Shelfari, Simon & Schuster, Sony, SparkNotes, verticle, XML

15 Trends To Watch In 2008

January 7, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Industry guru Mike Shatzkin foresees big gains in e-book sales, consolidation among literary agencies, a jump in customized book sales and much more…. You won’t catch me climbing out onto any billion-dollar limbs as I offer my forecast for book publishing in 2008, but some of the changes I envision do call for fundamental changes in how the business operates. There is an overarching theme to the changes already taking place. Consumer media in the 20th century tended to be horizontal and format-specific. The New York Times and Random House define “horizontal”: they publish across all interests and markets. The Internet will drive 21st-century publishing enterprises to be more like what professional publishing has always been: highly vertical and format-agnostic.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: agents, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Borders, brick-and-mortar, direct-to-consumer, eBooks, ereaders, experimentation, Ingram, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, libraries, merchandising, OverDrive, Palm, Print-On-Demand, publicity, sales, Self-Publishing, SharedBook, Sony, Supply-Chain, tagging, Vertical, web presence, XML

Success in a Parallel Universe: Perhaps with Some Help from Your DAD

May 10, 2007 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

We’re going to discuss a subject this morning that was on hardly any radar screens a year ago; it would not have been a compelling subject for presentation at last year’s Making Information Pay. But today, Digital Asset Distribution is on a lot of minds. What happened?

After all, book content has been going out on the web for quite a while. My company did a digital marketing program for a book called “Longitude” in late 1995 which centered around offering a free chapter through relevant web sites. For several years, Amazon has had a program showing interior book pages, starting out as “Look Inside” and now “Search Inside the Book”. Lots of publishers participated, but didn’t instantly express a need to manage their own digital distribution

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Accenture, Amazon, Apple, BiblioVault, BookStore, codeMantra, CPI, DAD, DAP, DAR, Donnelley, Google, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, Ingram, iPhone, iPod, Klopotek, Lightning, Macmillan, Making Information Pay, Managers of Unlimited Metadata, metadata, Microsoft, MySpace, netLibrary, NewsStand, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Sony, television, University of Chicago, Value-Chain International

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