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Export sales is one of the few areas of predictable growth for book publishers

October 3, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

For a client meeting last week, I was shown a chart that came from Bookstats of channel revenue for publishers. Bookstats is the recent (and now no longer) partnership between the AAP and BISG collecting book publisher shipment information. It has four years of data, which were arrayed in a neat bar chart. Since the chart […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Andrew Weinstein, BISG, Bluefire, BookStats, Brian Murray, CCC, Chris Kenneally, Copyright Clearance Center, David Burleigh, ePub Direct, Gareth Cuddy, HarperCollins, Ingram, Kobo, Len Vlahos, Marcus Woodburn, Micah Bowers, Michael Cader, Michael Tamblyn, OverDrive, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd

Getting Mark Coker right this time and agreeing with him up to a point

March 12, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

On Tuesday, for the first time in the five years I have been writing this blog, I did a post I would like to take back. (But in the interest of the public record, and because there were several comments of value, I’m leaving it up.) This is the post that I should have written […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: CCC, Diversion, Faber, Great Debate, Huffington Post, Hugh Howey, Ken Brooks, London Book Fair, Mark Coker, McGraw Hill Education, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Scott Waxman, Smashwords, Stephen Page

Should trade publishers start ditching their B2B imprints for a B2C world?

April 2, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

I spent last Friday at the On Copyright 2012 conference staged by my clients at Copyright Clearance Center. CCC is an organization dedicated to generating revenue for content creators from what is referred to as “secondary” licensing, or uses that are not core to the publisher’s revenue stream and which are often impossible to manage […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events Tagged With: "Free Ride", Big Six, CCC, Copyright Clearance, Crown, Farrar Straus, Grand Central, Hachette Book Group USA, Knopf, Little Brown, Macmillan, Maja Thomas, Michael Healy, On Copyright 2012, Penguin, Random House, Robert Levine, Scribners, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Viking

Publishers Launch Frankfurt will focus on data and retailers that every publisher needs to know

July 19, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

Our Publishers Launch Conferences venture is doing two shows in Frankfurt: a full-day “eBooks Around the World” program on Monday, October 10 and our first conference dedicated to children’s book publishing, “Children’s Publishing Goes Digital”, which will be a half-day program on Tuesday, October 11. We’ve enlisted the capable help of Lorraine Shanley of Market […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Children's Publishing Goes Digital", "eBooks Around the World", A.T. Kearney, Amazon, aNobii, Barnes & Noble, Bookrepublic, CCC, Chris Bauerle, David Naggar, Emily Williams, Frankfurt, Google, IfBookThen, Jonathan Nowell, Kindle, Kobo, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners International, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, Nielsen, Nook, Octavio Kulesz, Patricia Arancibia, Perseus Constellation, Sourcebooks, Theresa Horner, Tracey Armstrong

The subscription model for ebooks hasn’t emerged yet, but it will

May 6, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 68 Comments

From the beginning of Digital Change Thinking Time, which for me goes back to the mid-1990s, “subscription” has been high on the list of future expectations. That’s natural. The subscription model has emerged as the dominant one for cable TV (although there is still some pay-per-use) and Netflix works that way as well. Lots of […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, B&N, CCC, Cyrus Kharadi, Ed Naworka, Javier Celaya, John Konczal, Kindle, Mondadori, Netflix, Nook, O'Reilly, Publishing Perspectives, Random House, Ricky Cavallero, Safari, Simon Lipskar, Tracey Armstrong, Writer's House

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