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Export sales is one of the few areas of predictable growth for book publishers

October 3, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

For a client meeting last week, I was shown a chart that came from Bookstats of channel revenue for publishers. Bookstats is the recent (and now no longer) partnership between the AAP and BISG collecting book publisher shipment information. It has four years of data, which were arrayed in a neat bar chart. Since the chart […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Andrew Weinstein, BISG, Bluefire, BookStats, Brian Murray, CCC, Chris Kenneally, Copyright Clearance Center, David Burleigh, ePub Direct, Gareth Cuddy, HarperCollins, Ingram, Kobo, Len Vlahos, Marcus Woodburn, Micah Bowers, Michael Cader, Michael Tamblyn, OverDrive, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd

Three words of wisdom: standards, rights, & data

October 1, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

The Book Industry Study Group’s annual membership meeting on Friday concluded with a panel discussion among four industry executives who have leadership roles in the group. They are also four of the sharpest minds in publishing and they all had provocative things to say. Recollection of detail is not my strongest suit and I didn’t […]

Filed Under: Conferences, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Adobe, Amazon, Book Industry Study Group, BookStats, Dominique Raccah, Google, Hachette Book Group USA, Kaplan, Ken Michaels, Maureen McMahon, Readerlink Distribution Services, Sourcebooks, Tara Catogge, Tom Turvey

Perhaps the revolution has reached an evolutionary stage

August 13, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

The dizzying pace at which US consumers were switching from print to digital couldn’t last forever. Based on the numbers being published by the AAP, with a huge assist in interpretation by Michael Cader at Publishers Lunch, it seems that the slowdown has become very noticeable in the past 12 months. Between late 2007 when […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Vertical Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Apple, BookStats, Carolyn Reidy, Department of Justice, Faber, Kindle, Michael Cader, Penguin, Publishers Lunch, Simon & Schuster

Extending the life of bookstores is critical, but devilishly difficult

March 25, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 43 Comments

I’ll admit that I would have thought a few years ago that by the time we got to the point when more than a third of unit sales for major houses had gone digital — and perhaps more than half for fiction — that the future shape of the book business would be discernible. But, […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Big Six, Bill Epstein, BISG, Bookazine, BookExpo America, BookStats, Bowker, Codex Group, Deloitte, Doubleday, Facebook, Ingram, Leonard Shatzkin, Peter Hildick-Smith, Phil Ollila, Pinterest, Tumblr

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