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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 […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Apple, B&N, BookBaby, Bookmasters, Crown Books, Google, Kobo, Random House, Smashwords

True “do-it-yourself” publishing success stories will probably become rare

November 6, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 145 Comments

Getting ready for our eBooks for Everyone Else conferences, I discovered an author named Bob Mayer who impressed me with his self-publishing zeal and apparent success. Bob has written lots of military fiction, science fiction, even a romance novel, and some non-fiction: dozens of books over the years for major publishers. Most of it was […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amanada Hocking, Amazon, Barry Eisler, Bob Mayer, Bookmasters, Deidre Knight, Diversion Books, Ereads, Google, Joe Konrath, John Locke, KDP, Kindle, Kobo, Laura Rennert, Nook, Open Road, Publishers Lunch, Rosetta, Scott Waxman, Smashwords, Sony

Eisler’s decision is a key benchmark on the road to wherever it is we’re going

March 21, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 171 Comments

I wasn’t planning to write a post this past weekend for Monday morning publication. But then Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler contacted me on Saturday to tell me what Barry is up to. I’ve read their lengthy conversation about Barry’s decision to turn down a $500,000 contract (apparently for two books) and join Joe (and […]

Filed Under: Authors, Baseball, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Bookmasters, Branch Rickey, Charles Levy, Christian publishing, Constellation, CreateSpace, Google ebooks, iBookstore, Ingram, Jackie Robinson, Joe Konrath, Kindle, Kobo, Lightning Source, Negro Leagues, Nook, Perseus, PubIt, Scott Waxman Literary Agency, Smashwords, Sony

The other comparison: ebook royalties versus ebook self-publishing

August 30, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 40 Comments

My last post tried to lay out a comparison of royalties paid by big publishers to agented authors on ebooks against what they pay on print books. What it showed is that the authors suffer a bit on ebook sales that substitute for hardcover print sales, but that they do pretty well selling an ebook […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: A Year in Mudville, Andrew Wylie, Author Solutions, B&N, Bookmasters, Diesel ebook Store, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, Mark Coker, Random House, Scribd, Smashwords, Sony

Making Information Pay 2010: Points of No Return

May 10, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

We have a program packed with information which we always strive for here at Making Information Pay. This conference, as usual, is about what’s changing in our publishing world right now and how we should address it. Before I walk us through this morning’s program, I want to give you two snapshots of the future, first as I see it and then as it was reflected in the answers you and others gave to the survey that tied into this year’s event.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Author Solutions, Barnes & Noble, Bertelsmann, Big Six, BISG, Bookmasters, Books-a-Million, Borders, Bowker, brick-and-mortar, disintermediation, eBooks, Facebook, Gilbane Group, Hachette, Harvard Common Press, Kaplan, Lulu, Macmillan, Making Information Pay, Open Road, Print-On-Demand, Publishing Technology, Random House, SBS Worldwide, Scribd, Smashwords, Sterling Commerce, Twitter, Wolters Kluwer

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