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It is hard for publishers to apply even Harvard B School advice in their struggle with Amazon

July 15, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 109 Comments

Harvard Business Review published an article recently by Benjamin Edelman called “Mastering the Intermediaries” which gives advice to businesses trying to avoid some of the consequences of audience aggregation and control by an intermediary. The article was aimed at restaurants who don’t want their fate controlled by Open Table or travel companies who don’t want […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", Aerbook, Amazon, American Airlines, Apple, Ashley Gordon, B&N, Baker & Taylor, Benjamin Edelman, Big Five, Bluefire, Book.ish, Chris Kubica, Donnelley, Eugene Volokh, Expedia, Fandango, Foodler, Google, Grubhub, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harvard Business Review, Ingram, Jeff Stone, Joe Regal, John Sargent, Kayak, Kindle, Macmillan, MovieTickets, Open Table, Oyster, Penguin Random House, Peter Meyers, PRH, Robert Bork, Scribd, Zola Books

Much as I like Hugh Howey, I disagree with just about all of this recent post of his

June 16, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 310 Comments

I need to say couple of things at the outset here. The first is that I really like and admire Hugh Howey and the fact that I disagree with almost every paragraph of this post of his shouldn’t suggest that I don’t. That’s not snark or irony; it is sincere. I think it is both […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Author Solutions, B&N, Big Five, Hachette, Hugh Howey, Kobo

Subscription services for ebooks progress to becoming a real experiment

May 27, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

My long-held conviction that broad-based subscriptions for ebooks were not likely to work is partly based on facts that are now changing. It is still by no means a slam dunk that ebooks must go where Spotify has taken digital music and Netflix has taken the digital distribution of TV and movies, but it looks […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Big Five, Book-of-the-Month Club, Carolyn Reidy, Evan Schnittman, Hachette, HarperCollins, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Macmillan, Netflix, Oyster, Penguin Random House, PRH, S&S, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Spotify

The disruption of the disruption is temporary

April 30, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 29 Comments

There’s little doubt that the digital (r)evolution, to the degree it is measured by the shift by consumers from reading on paper to reading on a screen, has plateaued, at least temporarily. The most recent article in PW on the subject spells out that some publishers have even seen their digital sales decline, although always […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "50 Shades of Gray", Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BestLittleBookshop.com, Big Five, DBW 2015, F+W Media, Hobbit, Houghton Harcourt, Kieron Smith, Nook, Penguin Random House, Publishers Weekly, Quarto Publishing, Random House, The Book Depository

It is not news to publishers that they have to engage directly with their readers

March 18, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 40 Comments

Since the merger that has created Penguin Random House, there has been precious little speculation (except by me, as far as I can tell) about what this new behemoth in trade book publishing could do to exploit their scale in new and innovative ways. Their scale advantage is huge. PRH has something in the neighborhood […]

Filed Under: Direct response, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: 250 Words, Big Five, Book-of-the-Month Club, Bookmarks, Farrar Straus, Hannah Telfer, Holt, Joe Esposito, Literary Guild, Macmillan, Markus Dohle, Osprey, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, The Bookseller, Thomas & Mercer, Thomas Dunne Books, Tom Weldon, Tor, Tor.com

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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