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What the Riggio interview in the New Yorker tells us

October 31, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

The New Yorker did a very provocative story dated October 21  about Barnes & Noble that included a great deal of information gained from a phone interview by writer David Sax with B&N significant shareholder and chairman Leonard Riggio. B&N is a subject of obsessive interest to book publishers and their friends, family, and ecosystem. […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Girl on the Train", Amazon, B&N, Barnes & Noble, BN .com, David Sax, Kindle, Leonard Riggio, Nook, The New Yorker

Four players in the book business with the power to rewrite some of the rules

May 3, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

The news came last week that ReaderLink has purchased Anderson News. Those two companies have been the leading suppliers of books to the mass merchandisers: primarily Wal-mart, Target, and Sam’s Club. There are other players selling books in the space, including Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and smaller distributors like the less-well-known American West. But most […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Aer.io, Amazon, American West, Anderson News, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Big Five, BN .com, Books-a-Million, Follett, Ingram, Penguin Random House, ReaderLink, Sam's Club, Target, Wal-mart

Can crowd-sourced retailing give Amazon a run for its money?

December 16, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

Although it has always seemed sensible for publishers to sell their books (and then ebooks) directly to end users, it has never looked to me like that could be a very big business. In the online environment, your favorite “store” — the one you’re loyal to and perhaps even have an investment in patronizing (which […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Aer.io, Aerbook, Amazon, American West, Barnes & Noble, Bertelsmann, BN .com, Bookish, Books Online, Borders, Google, Hachette, Hummingbird, I2S2, Ingram, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Penguin, Random House, Ron Martinez, Simon & Schuster, The Book Depository, Zola Books

Book publishing may not remain a stand-alone industry and book retailing will demonstrate that first

January 29, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 17 Comments

You are missing some good fun if you don’t know those AT&T commercials where the grown-up sits around a table with a bunch of really little kids and asks them questions like “what’s better: faster or slower?” There always seems to be an obvious “correct” answer. Those kids could answer some important questions about ebook […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BN .com, Google, Google Play, Jeff Bezos, Kobo, Nexus 7, Rakuten

Don’t blame Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter for the fact that technology changes behavior

September 22, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

In the past week, we have seen the Louis C.K. rant against smart phones, the Jonathan Franzen deep intellectual swipe at what Amazon is doing to the world of publishing, and I had an exchange with a very dear old friend who does email (his wife doesn’t), but can’t handle texting or Facebook. Or thinks he […]

Filed Under: New Models, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Amazon, BN .com, David Houle, Digital Book World, Facebook, Jonathan Franzen, Louis C.K., Michael Cader, Peter McCarthy, Publishers Launch Conferences, Richard C. Wade, Samuel F.B. Morse, Twitter

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