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Amazon has done so many smart things that some of the best ones get forgotten

March 9, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

There’s quite a bit of publishing about publishing going on in the next few weeks. British academic John B. Thompson has written a solid scholarly history of book publishing in the past quarter century or so called “Book Wars” that will publish next month, focused on the arrival of ebooks and how publishers and the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Behemoth, "Book Wars", "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know", "The Family Business", Amazon Rising", Baker & Taylor, I2S2, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, iPad, Jeff Bezos, John B. Thompson, Keel Hunt, Kindle, Nook, Robert Paris Riger, Robin Gaster, Rocket Book, Softbook, Sony Reader, West Margin Books

Amazon share grows and big publishers make more money

February 26, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The financial reports of the major publishers have been following a pattern for some years now. Sales are about flat but profits have been steadily rising. One explanation for that fact is that the management of the major houses have been diligent about adapting their businesses to the new marketplace configurations or, as the saying […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know", Amazon, Audible, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, BISG, Book Industry Study Group, Brentano's Bookstore, CreateSpace, Ingram, KDP, Kindle Digital Publishing, Lightning Source, Michael Cader, Oxford University Press, Robert Paris Riger, Senator Amy Klobuchar, The Strand

New Zealand is a beautiful country that is at the end of the line in the global English-language book supply chain

February 7, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Quite aside from being stunningly beautiful from top to bottom, New Zealand is unique, a nation of 4-1/2 million English speakers that is not on the way to anyplace else. When you go to New Zealand, you go on purpose. And you arrive on a large boat or a large plane, not by some improvised […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Anne Kennedy, Baker & Taylor, HarperCollins, Ingram, Joan MacKenzie, Martha Moran, New Zealand, Penguin Random House, Whitcoulls

Lots of Spanish speakers in the United States, but not so much of a book market for Spanish books

April 19, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Somebody somewhere reported last month that the United States is the home country to the second largest number of Spanish-speakers in the world, after Mexico. Since I am speaking in Madrid to Spanish publishers at the end of May, that seemed like something I should learn more about. The US must be a market. The […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, rights, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Uncategorized, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, American Book Group, Atria, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Costco, Dan Brown, E L James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George R. R. Martin, Hachette, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Espanol, HarperCollins Iberica, Ingram, Isabel Allende, Jenni Rivera, John Grisham, Judith Curr, Junot Diaz, Laura Esquivel, Paulo Coelho, Penguin Random House, PRH Grupo Editorial, ReaderLink, Roberto Bolano, Sandra Cisneros, Simon & Schuster, Spanish Publishers, Stephen King

What we are seeing today is actually the second renaissance of indie bookselling, not the first

March 27, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Publishing and digital change consultant Bill Rosenblatt — always worth paying attention to — pointed his contacts last week to a podcast from NPR celebrating the current renaissance of independent bookstores. The history reported as part of what was really the celebration of very recent events is useful to ponder, even if it was sometimes a […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Bell & Howell, Bill Rosenblatt, Harry Hoffman, Ingram, Ingram microfiche, NPR

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