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Amazon channels Orwell in its latest blast

August 9, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 243 Comments

Anybody who reads Amazon’s latest volley in the Amazon-Hachette war and then David Streitfeld’s takedown of it on the New York Times’s web site will know that Amazon — either deliberately or with striking ignorance — distorted a George Orwell quote to make it appear that he was against low-priced paperbacks when he was actually […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 1984, Amazon, Anchor Books, Ballantine, Brentano's, David Streitfeld, Doubleday, Douglas Preston, Espresso Book Machine, Fawcett, George Orwell, Hachette, Jason Epstein, Jeff Bezos, Leonard Shazkin, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Pietsch, NY Review of Books, Penguin, Philip Van Doren Stern, Random House, Sid Gross Doubleday Bookshops, Viking

Peering into the future and seeing more value in the Random Penguin merger

November 26, 2012 by Admin 30 Comments

So now in addition to the Random House and Penguin merger that is being reviewed by governments far and wide, we have the news that HarperCollins is exploring a tie-up with Simon & Schuster in a deal that hasn’t been made yet. That leaves Hachette and Macmillan, among the so-called Big Six, still on the […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Ballantine, Barnes & Noble, Book-of-the-Month Club, Dell, Doubleday, Fawcett, Hachette, HarperCollins, Laura Owen, Literary Guild, Macmillan, PaidContent, Penguin, Putnam-Berkley, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Sterling, Thomas Nelson, Viking, Zondervan

Ebooks are making me recall the history of mass-market publishing

March 13, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

The ebook revolution is really beginning to remind me of the mass-market papeback revolution. The mass paperback was really “invented” by Sir Allan Lane when he created Penguin in Britain before World War II. (Wikipedia credits a German publisher with the first cheap paperbacks a few years earlier, but Lane was certainly the first in […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Anchor Books, Avon, Ballantine, Bantam, Bill Shinker, Brentano's Bookstore, Doubleday, Doubleday Book Stores, Hachette, HarperCollins, It's A Wonderful Life, Jason Epstein, Leonard Shatzkin, Little Brown, Louis L'Amour, Macmillan, Penguin, Peter Mayer, Philip Van Doren Stern, Pocket Books, Random House, Scribner's Bookstore, Sid Gross, Signet, Sir Allan Lane, Sport Magazine, Viking, Warner Books

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