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“The Family Business” is Ingram: the global infrastructure for the book industry

April 19, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The global infrastructure for the book business that is not Amazon is owned and operated by the Ingram Content Group. In fact, a lot of the global infrastructure of the book business that is identified as Amazon is actually Ingram. And on top of that, there would probably have been no Amazon, certainly not the […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Behemoth: Amazon Rising" by Robin Gaster, "Book Wars" by John B. Thompson, "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know" by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger, Bronson Ingram, Bruce Harris, Coresource, HarperCollins, Harry Hoffman, Ingram Content Group, Ingram Spark, Jack Stambaugh, John Ingram, Karl Weber, Keel Hunt, Lightning Print, Michael Zibart, Penguin Random House, Tennessee Book Company, Tennessee School Book Depository, Vanderbilt business school

The latest marketplace data would seem to say publishers are as strong as ever

October 18, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 61 Comments

This post began being written a couple of weeks ago when I recalled some specific misplaced expectations I had for the self-publishing revolution and started to ponder why things happened the way they did in recent years. It turns out a big part of the answer I was looking for provides clarity that extends far […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Wool", Amanda Hocking, Amazon, Author Earnings, Avon, Barnes & Noble, Bob Mayer, Borders, Boston Bruins, Boston Globe, Bruce Harris, Byliner, Data Guy, Diversion Books, Hearst, Hugh Howey, Ingram, Ingram Spark, Macmillan, Meredith, Michael Cader, Morrow, Nathan Myhrvold, NBC, Norton, Politico, Pronoun, Publishing Perspectives, Random House, Rodale, Scott Waxman, Simon & Schuster, Sterling Publishing, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vook, Whitey Bulger

The support infrastructure for entities to publish is growing but the most important piece may not yet be provided

November 11, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

I remember a song lyric from the early 70s for which the opening line was: “we don’t need more sailors, we need a captain”. (I can’t find the reference in LyricFind and I don’t remember the name of the band.) That song could be about the new publishing that is arising from the phenomenon of […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling Tagged With: Amazon, atomization, BiblioCrunch, Blurb, Bruce Harris, Content Marketing Institute, ePubDirect, Fast Company, Forbes, Frederator Studios, Ingram, James Robinson, Joe Pulizzi, Lulu, Matt Cavner, Michael Cader, Molly Barton, Nathan Mhyrvold, OverDrive, Oyster, Richard Nash, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd, The Associated Press, The New York Times, Thought Catalog, unbundling, US News & World Report

Unbundling in the book business: the fourth big trend

May 13, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

A few weeks ago, I wrote that there are three big forces driving the future of publishing: scale, verticalization, and atomization. I was wrong. I had forgotten my own blogpost from last September when I identified another trend that belongs with the first three: “unbundling”. The book business, in the trade segment I follow most […]

Filed Under: Atomization, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Vertical Tagged With: "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking", "The Shift Decade", "Wool", Aerbook, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BiblioCrunch, Bruce Harris, CreateSpace, David Houle, Evolution Shift, Hachette, Harmony Books, Hugh Howey, InDesign, Ingram Publisher Services, Ken Michaels, Kobo, Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, NetMinds, Nolan Bushnell, Penguin, Random House, Random House UK, Ron Martinez, Simon & Schuster, Smashwords, Sourcebooks, The Shift Age, Word

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