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Amazon’s growth and its lengthening shadow

April 30, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 74 Comments

The DoJ lawsuit and settlement, Amazon’s next giant step of growth in sales,  the Business Week article on Amazon pushing publishers to allow them to print slow-movers on demand, and then this morning’s New York Times story about a book driven down to a price of zero on Amazon (presumably by an algorithm), combine to […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barry Eisler, Business Week, DOJ, Joe Konrath

By one benchmark at least, we are probably halfway through the (r)evolution

February 13, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

A couple of major (Big Six) publishers have acknowledged that ebook revenues for them have passed 20% of their revenues. Of the 80% that remains print, I think it would be conservative to estimate that 20% of that is sold online. That’s an additional 16 percent of their business. Adding those together tells us that, for at […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Barry Eisler, Big Six, breaking the color line, Doubleday, Ingram, J. A. Konrath, John Locke, John Sargent Sr., Kindle, Leonard Shatzkin, Perseus, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's

No predictions this year; just questions

December 20, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

This is the time of year for predictions. I’ve done mine in the spirit of the holiday season in years past, going back to the late 1980s when I did a “My Say” for Publishers Weekly. (I wasn’t able to find it — some sharp reader will — but I recall that one of my […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Johnny Nash, Publishers Weekly

True “do-it-yourself” publishing success stories will probably become rare

November 6, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 145 Comments

Getting ready for our eBooks for Everyone Else conferences, I discovered an author named Bob Mayer who impressed me with his self-publishing zeal and apparent success. Bob has written lots of military fiction, science fiction, even a romance novel, and some non-fiction: dozens of books over the years for major publishers. Most of it was […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amanada Hocking, Amazon, Barry Eisler, Bob Mayer, Bookmasters, Deidre Knight, Diversion Books, Ereads, Google, Joe Konrath, John Locke, KDP, Kindle, Kobo, Laura Rennert, Nook, Open Road, Publishers Lunch, Rosetta, Scott Waxman, Smashwords, Sony

John Locke and S&S show us another kind of deal we can expect to see again

August 22, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

OK, now we know another new paradigm for book publishing in the digital age with the announcement of self-publishing author John Locke’s new deal for print distribution with Simon & Schuster. The big publishers have said for a while now that they won’t be signing up books for print rights only. That makes sense, up […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Amazon, Barry Eisler, Donovan Creed, Harry Potter, Houghton Harcourt, J.K. Rowling, John Locke, Pottermore, Simon & Schuster, Telemachus Press, Tim Ferriss

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