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The truth is we do not yet know whether ebooks will work for anything except readerly books

December 4, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 36 Comments

In the 1990s, Mark Bide would always begin the “Publishing in the 21st Century” conferences we ran by reviewing the research we had done around some aspect of digital change in publishing with the admonition that book publishing was “many very different businesses.” By that, Mark meant that trade publishers (who sold primarily through bookstores) […]

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Introducing E2BU, indispensible for anybody investing in ebook enhancement

June 16, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

Last winter, before the announcement of the Agency model as the path to ebook price maintenance, some major publishers had acknowledged out loud that enhancing ebooks in various ways would be the way to keep the public paying print book prices for content. That got me thinking. First I thought about the CD-Rom debacle of […]

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