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The digital future still is a mystery if you don’t publish “immersive reading”

January 4, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

I have made previous mention of my notion that what has been one very cohesive trade book industry would “trifurcate”: break into at least three distinct businesses: 1) books that are straight narrative text intended for immersive reading; 2) adult books that are not straight text, either very chunkable (like cookbooks or travel books) or […]

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The ebook value chain is still sorting itself out, and so are the splits

November 27, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

The division of the consumer’s dollar across the publishing value chain has a history of change. When I came into the business 50 years ago, discounts from publishers to retailers often topped out at 44% and even wholesalers seldom got more than 48% off the retail price on hardcover books. Today discounts into the mid-50s […]

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What smaller publishers, agents, and authors need to know about ebook publishing

September 5, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

As the shift from a print-centric book world to a digital one accelerates, more and more digital publishers are creating themselves. The biggest publishers, with the resources of sophisticated IT departments to guide them, have been in the game for years now and paying serious attention since the Kindle was launched by Amazon late in […]

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