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Amazon and the future of physical retail

September 20, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

There are two parallel conversations about the future of retail that are quite active. One is within the book business and it centers around what the future will be — and will there be one? — for Barnes & Noble. The other one is about the future of retail competitors to Amazon in the broader […]

Filed Under: New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", Amazon, Atlantic, B&N, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Borders, Brad Stone, Business Insider, JC Penney, Macy's, Nathan Bransford, New York Times, Sears, Time, Warren Buffet

No, Mike Shatzkin did NOT say that publishing is spiraling down the drain

November 21, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 18 Comments

As part of the promotion of the Digital Book World conference, I do some interviewing with the very capable Jeremy Greenfield, the editor of their blog. And Jeremy takes our conversations and chops them up into short pieces around the themes of our show. Since the focus of Digital Book World is “how digital is […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Arthur Klebanoff, Barnes & Noble, Bendict Evans, Bowker, Brad Stone, E-Reads, Jane Friedman, Jeremy Greenfield, Joan Didion, Joe Esposito, John Gregory Dunne, KDP Select, Open Road Media, Phil Sexton, Professor Dana Beth Weinberg, Richard Curtis, Rosetta Books, Writer's Digest

Amazon might lose interest in total hegemony over the book business before they achieve it

November 5, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 25 Comments

The industry got the news that Amazon was probably reassessing its own publishing program a couple of weeks ago when it was announced that Laurence Kirshbaum was stepping down as the head of Amazon Publishing and being replaced by a 14-year veteran of the Seattle company, Daphne Durham. Whatever are Durham’s strengths and connections, they […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", "Wool", Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Brad Stone, Countdown Clock, Daphne Durham, GoodReads, Google, Hugh Howey, Jeff Bezos, Laurence Kirshbaum, Macmillan, Matchbook, Penguin Random House, Penny Marshall, Timothy Ferriss

Three points worth adding to the excellent account of the Amazon story in The Everything Store

November 4, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

The publication of Brad Stone’s book about Amazon, “The Everything Store”, is the catalyst for a lot of new discussion about the topic most difficult for the book business to discuss. It is pretty much impossible to be in the book business without benefiting from Amazon’s market reach. But it is also pretty standard fare […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", Amazon, Amazon Prime, Barnes & Noble, Brad Stone, Digital Book World, dot lit, I2S2, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, Jeremy Greenfield, John Ingram, Kindle, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Matchbook, Mobipocket, Palm Digital Microsoft, Peter Olson, Random House

The wild weekend of Amazon and Macmillan

January 31, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 43 Comments

Now I swear all this is true. As everybody knows, a very serious food fight broke out between Amazon and Macmillan late Friday night. All weekend Michael Cader led the way in ferreting out additional useful information and I spent most of today (Sunday) trying to write an analytical blogpost. I got it just about […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Brad Stone, Bran Hambric, Charles Stross, Content, Content Reserve, David Wilk, Going Rogue, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Ingram, John Sargent, John Scalzi, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Sourcebooks, True Compass, VentureBeat

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