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Four of the big five have new deals with Amazon and only the biggest is still to negotiate one

April 24, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

A reporter called earlier this week focused on what he figures are the upcoming negotiations over trading terms between Amazon and Penguin Random House. I had observed when Amazon was throwing sharp elbows at Hachette during their contractual dispute that Amazon wouldn’t try similar tactics with PRH. Since then, with HarperCollins and Amazon having announced […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Abrams, Amazon, B&N Nook, Big Five, Big Six, Bloomsbury, Books-a-Million, Cambridge, Chronicle, DOJ, Egmont, Following Four, Google Play, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harry Potter, iBookstore, Justice Cote, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, Macmillan, Oxford, Oyster, Penguin Random House, PRH, Quarto, Running Press, Scholastic, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Tor.com

Nine places to look in 2014 to predict the future of publishing

January 1, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

The digital transition of the trade book publishing business, which I would date from the opening of Amazon.com in 1995, enters its 20th year in 2014. Here are some of the ponderables as we close out the first two decades of a process of very rapid change that is far from over. 1. What’s going […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Big One, Big Six, Curtis Brown, Derek Jeter, Diversion, E-Reads, Entitle, eReatah, Following Four, Hugh Howey, iPad, John Locke, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Matchbook, O'Reilly, Oyster, Pearson, Penguin Random House, PRH, Rosetta, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Writer's House

The totality of the relationship is what matters

August 6, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

Like a marriage, relationships between people and companies are seldom made or broken on the back of one transaction or one kind of transaction. They are bigger and more complicated than that. That point was driven home in my house over the weekend by the dustup between Time Warner Cable and CBS, which resulted in […]

Filed Under: New Models, Supply-Chain, Unbundling Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, CBS, Channel 2, Channel One, Dexter, F+W Media, Home Depot, iBookstore, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Judge Cote, Kindle, Kobo, Loew's, NFL, Nook, Overstock.com, Penguin Random House, Random House, Raymond Donovan, Showtime, Time Warner Cable

The ebook marketplace is a long way from settled

May 7, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

When we put on conferences, we sometimes book speakers because of who they are, or who their company is, but we also do our best to make sure the content of their presentation will be useful to our audience. So I had booked Matteo Berlucchi, the CEO of the British ebook startup Anobii, to speak […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, Brian Murray, Charlie Redmayne, Cory Doctorow, Donnelley, DRM, HarperCollins, iBooks, IPG, J.K. Rowling, John Sargent, Kindle, LibreDigital, Macmillan, Matteo Berlucchi, Microsoft, Nook, Penguin, Pottermore, Publishers Launch London, Random House

After the DoJ action, where do we stand?

April 14, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 78 Comments

This post went up around midnight last night (Saturday, 4/14) in London, or between 6 and 7 NY time. I had been concerned about a part of it that has been edited below. If you read it before 5 pm today (Sunday, 4/15), you’ll not have seen this correction. And you’ll see some comments that […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, Bookish, Department of Justice, Hachette, HarperCollins, James McQuivey, Macmillan, Melville House, Michael Cader, Penguin, Random House, Simon & Schuster

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