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Technology, curation, and why the era of big bookstores is coming to an end

June 7, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

I stumbled across a Sarah Weinman post from a few months ago that posits the notion that the chain bookstore (by which it would appear she means the superstores of the past 20 years, not the chain bookstores in malls that grew up in the prior 20 years) perhaps had a natural life cycle which […]

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White labeled specialty stores, not ebook superstores, are the future

July 5, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

One of the recurring characteristics of “change” is that the first iteration of something new looks a lot like what it is replacing. So it has been with ebooks and ebook retailing. The ebooks themselves have, for the most part, been the same as the print books except rendered on a screen instead of on […]

Filed Under: Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon.com, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Copia, Dotlit, F+W Media, Google, iBooks, Ingram, Kindle, Kobo, Len Shatzkin, Mobi, Palm

Can the chains provide us with better small bookstores?

November 8, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

There is considerable concern among the trade publishing establishment about the future of brick-and-mortar stores. As well there should be. Retail stores provide the most efficient promotion opportunities for books: putting them in front of people poised to buy. They give clear signals about sales appeal by positioning and piles of stock of varying sizes; […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Crowell-Collier, Ingram, Leonard Shatzkin, Macmillan, Waldenbooks

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