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Barnes and Noble faces a challenge that has not been clearly spelled out

August 23, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

The sudden dismissal of Ron Boire, the CEO of Barnes & Noble, follows the latest financial reporting from Barnes & Noble and has inspired yet another round of analysis about their future. When the financial results were released last month, there was a certain amount of celebrating over the fact that store closings are down […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Borders, Brentano's, Cambridge University Press, Dalton, Doubleday Merchandising Plan, Gimbels, Heather Reisman, Indigo, Kroch's & Brentano's, Leonard Shatzkin, Marshall Field, Penguin Random House, Pocket Shops, Publishers Lunch, Steve Clark, Walden, Wanamakers

It is being proven that smaller bookstores can work commercially

October 25, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

Sometimes it takes a decade or more for an insight to be validated, but it is always nice when it happens. Around the turn of the century, I was developing a business called “Supply Chain Tracker”, which had a nice client base for a few years. What we did was take the data feeds — […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Anna Borne Minberger, B&N, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Bonniers, Books-a-Million, Borders, Brentano's, Cambridge University Press, Charles Nurnberg, Frankfurt Book Fair, Ingram, Leonard Shatzkin, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners, Pocket Shop, Sterling Publishing, Steve Clark

New data on the Long Tail impact suggests rethinking history and ideas about the future of publishing

June 25, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 66 Comments

For most of my lifetime, the principal challenge a publisher faced to get a book noticed by a consumer and sold was to get it on the shelves in bookstores. Data was always scarce (I combed for it for years) but everything I ever saw reported confirmed that customers generally chose from what was made […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: B. Dalton, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Booknet Canada, Borders, BP Reports, Brentano's, Cambridge University Press, Collier's Encyclopedia, Crowell-Collier, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, HHI, Ingram, Kindle, Leonard Shatzkin, Lightning, Macmillan Publishers, Marcello Vena, Noah Genner, Oxford University Press, publishing history, RCS Libri, Two Continents, Walden

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 […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Avon, B. Dalton, Baker & Taylor, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, Bill Shinker, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Burrows Brothers, Cambridge University Press, Crowell-Collier, Crown Books, curation, Doubleday, Doubleday Merchandising Plan, Iacocca, Ingram, Jack Romanos, Kroch's & Brentano's, Len Shatzkin, Peter Mayer, Rosemary Rogers, Sarah Weinman, Steve Clark, The People's Pharmacy, Walden

What I Would Have Said in London, Part 1

April 25, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

I have gotten some requests, in comments and off-the-blog, to write what I was going to say to the AGM of the PA in an appearance I was supposed to make there on Wednesday, April 28. I felt terrible about having to cancel an engagement that was booked many months ago but it was tied into a […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, America Online, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Cambridge University Press, Compuserve, Craig's List, Crown Publishing, Google, In Cold Type, iPod, iTunes, Len Shatzkin, London Book Fair, Princess Daisy, Prodigy, Sony Walkman, Yahoo

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