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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

Now HERE is an experiment that looks like it worked and is worthy of replication

October 31, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

The new opportunity to publish a book without printed inventory has been popularized primarily by self-publishing authors and by new fledgling publishing enterprises like Entangled and Byliner following in the footsteps of earlier pioneers like eReads and Ellora’s Cave and, more recently, Open Road. This changes the economics of publishing substantially, taking a very large […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Alibi, Byliner, Carina Press, Corriere della Sera, Ellora's Cave, Entangled, Ereads, Flirt, Harlequin, HarperCollins, HarperTeen Impulse, Hydra, Loveswept, Marcello Vena, Open Road, Random House, RCS Libri, Rizzoli Lab, You Crime

More on atomization: why the new publishers are coming

March 26, 2013 by Jess 38 Comments

The most recent post here laid out a future for trade publishing that will be less and less about traditional publishers and more and more about non-traditional publishers delivering books into the marketplace without the financing or “approval” of a profit-seeking publisher. That’s a radical change from the industry we’ve seen grow over the past […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: American Express Publishing, Atavist, Barry Diller, Brightline, Byliner, Chronicle of Higher Education, Conde Nast, Constellation, Cosmopolitan, Daily Beast, Diversion, Esquire, Frederator, Harlequin, Hearst, Ingram, INscribe, Jeremy Greenfield, Kindle, NBC News, New York Times, Newsweek, Open Road, Perseus, Playboy, Provincetown Public LIbrary, Rosetta Books, Saturday Evening Post, Scientific American, TED, The Atlantic, Toronto Star, US Army, USA Today, USA Tomorrow, Vook, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Wharton Business School, Xiamen Blackbird Cartoon Company

What retailers know that publishers need to know

July 2, 2012 by Jess 9 Comments

The Wall Street Journal ran a piece last week about what the ebook retailers know about how we are all reading. In fact, all the ebook retailers who manage ecosystems that include apps for using their platform on multi-function devices can see every move their consumers make. We all have the sense that they know […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Wool", 20th Century Fox, Amazon, Amazon Singles, Barnes & Noble, Byliner, CreateSpace, Hugh Howey, Jim Hilt, Kobo, Kristin Nelson, Laura Owen, Michael Tamblyn, Nook Snaps, PaidContent, Publishers Launch Hollywood, Shortcovers, The Atavist, Wall Street Journal

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