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A changing book business: it all seems to be flowing downhill to Amazon

January 22, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

Amazon’s introduction of the Kindle in 2007 was followed rapidly by other ebook systems — Kobo, Google, B&N’s Nook, and Apple’s iBook — and widely-available print-on-demand capabilities for printed books offered by Ingram (Lightning Print was already a decade old) and Amazon’s CreateSpace. Amazon had long exploited price as a weapon in the marketplace, discounting […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Publishing, Apple, B&N, BookScan, Bookstat.com, Borders, CreateSpace, Data Guy, Google, Hugh Howey, iBook, Ingram, Kindle, Kobo, Lightning Print, Nook, Penguin, PubTrack, Random House

Agency pricing didn’t restrain Amazon; it strengthened them

February 1, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 42 Comments

Many, if not most, of the people in publishing houses I know have what they feel is a pretty clear picture of the changes we’re seeing in the business. There seems to be a strong consensus that the ebook share is leveling off or diminishing as opposed to print. And there is an enthusiasm about […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Author Earnings, BookScan, Data Guy, Hugh Howey, Target, Walmart

The publishing business as we have known it is not going away anytime soon

June 11, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 38 Comments

Regular readers, please pardon me for the unusual length of this post, but it covers a lot of ground that I think is necessary to make the point. A friend who has actually been working fulltime in the book business since I was still in college and who remains active was speculating at BEA about […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Author Earnings, Barnes & Noble, BookScan, Borders, Codex Group, DBW, Gareth Cuddy, Google, Harry Bingham, iBooks, Ingram, James Patterson, Jane Friedman, John Wiley, Nielsen Market Research, Nook, Publishing Technology, PubTrack Digital, Smashwords, Vearsa

Penguin Random House does its competitors a favor by walking away from subscription

November 19, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 30 Comments

I sometimes feel like I’m the only guy in town (NYC, but I’d include London too) contemplating out loud how Penguin Random House might use its position as by far the biggest commercial trade publisher to make life a bit more difficult for its competitors, which in the first instance means the Following Four: HarperCollins […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Subscriptions Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Bertelsmann, Bookmate, BookScan, FutureBook, Hachette, HarperCollins, Jonathan Stolper, Kensington, Kindle Unlimited, Macmillan, Nielsen, Oyster, Penguin Random House, Philip Jones, PRH, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Skoobe, Ted Hill, The Bookseller, Tom Weldon, vendor-managed inventory

Learned (or figured out) at BEA 2012

June 11, 2012 by Jess 34 Comments

BookExpo America, trade publishing’s industry-wide gathering, just completed what must be considered another successful year at Javits Center last week. Attendance was pretty much what it had been last year and the lines for autographs on the convention floor certainly gave off the feeling of enthusiasm and excitement that publishers want to see. Convention roundups […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Abrams, Aerbook Maker, Avalon, BIC, Bill Newlin, BISG, BookExpo America, BookScan, Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, Crown, Doubleday, Fabbri, Firebrand, Fran Toolan, Joe Friedman, John Locke, Jonathan Nowell, Karina Luke, Laura Hazard Owen, Martha Moran, Martin Levin, Marvello Vena, Michael Cader, New American Library, Penguin, Perseus, RCS Libri, RCS Media, Rizzoli, Ron Martinez, Times Mirror Publishing

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