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Sony exits and the ebook business loses an original player

February 9, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

Sony has thrown in the towel on the ebook business and turned its customers over to Kobo. This has unleashed speculation that Nook will soon do the same. If B&N were really forced to choose between the investments they need to make in their stores and the investments required to compete in digital delivery, it […]

Filed Under: eBooks, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, AllRomanceebooks, Amazon Source, Android, aNobii, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Bookish, BooksonBoard, Borders, Copia, Diesel, Google, iOS, Kindle, Kobo, Len Riggio, Matchbook, Mobcast, Nook, Oyster, Sainsbury's, Sony, Sony Reader, Tesco, Txtr, Wal-mart, Waterstone's, Zola Books

How much time and effort should established publishers be spending on startups?

March 7, 2013 by Jess 10 Comments

We are now in a period replete with startups that want to be the disruption in publishing. We see a lot of them in our office. Part of our business involves helping startups find relevance and contacts within the established publishing community. There are three areas in particular which the startups seem to think the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Blio, Bookish, Cengage, Copia, GoodReads, Google, Ingram, Inkling, Javier Celaya, Joe Regal, Kobo, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, O'Reilly, Pearson, Penguin Random House, Safari, Zola Books

Amazon as a threat to steal big titles from big publishers is still a ways off

October 23, 2012 by Jess 16 Comments

When Larry Kirshbaum, the longtime head of TimeWarner Publishing (purchased right after he left in 2007 by Hachette and now the company called Hachette Book Group USA) joined Amazon many people thought — I among them — that Amazon was about to become a threat to take big titles away from the major publishers and, […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Politics, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barry Eisler, Blio, Bookish, Copia, Democratic National Convention 1968, George Wallace, Google, Hachette Book Group USA, Joe Konrath, Kobo, KOLL, Larry Kirshbaum, Michael Cader, Penny Marshall, Pierre Salinger, Professor Richard Wade, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, Senator George McGovern, Sony, Southern Strategy, Spiro Agnew, Tim Ferriss, TimeWarner Publishing, Wall Street Journal, Zola eBooks

Going where the customers are might be an alternative to selling direct

August 9, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

The news that Faber in the UK has partnered with a company called Firsty Group to offer direct-to-consumer services to their distribution clients again calls the question about publishers selling direct. In my recent post about the likely outcome of the DoJ settlement being accepted by the Court, I said I was re-thinking my admonition […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, F+W Media, Faber, Firsty Group, iBookstore, Ingram, Lightning Source, Open Sky, Phil Ollila, Politico, Politics & Prose, Random House, Zola Books

Somebody please tell me the path to survival for the illustrated book business

August 6, 2012 by Jess 26 Comments

My eye was caught at the end of last week by a story in The Bookseller that acknowledged that ebooks just haven’t worked for illustrated books. It appears that the publishers of illustrated books they spoke to for the piece think that situation is temporary. The Managing Director of Thames & Hudson, Jamie Camplin, is […]

Filed Under: eBooks, New Models, Vertical Tagged With: advanceImages, Aerbook Maker, Blio, Bowker, Codex, Dorling Kindersley, F+W Media, fotolibra, iPad, Jamie Camplin, John Duhigg, Kindle Fire, Osprey, Peter Hildick-Smith, Ron Martinez, Thames & Hudson, The Bookseller, Wiley

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