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Three new ebook platforms nearing their debut

August 4, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

A year ago — even six months ago — it seemed like Amazon and its Kindle device had an insurmountable advantage in the ebook device and platform competition. Despite our admonition that Amazon’s dominance of ebooks was much more fragile than their dominance in online print bookselling, even we were impressed and sometimes daunted by […]

Filed Under: Community, eBooks, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Android, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Content Reserve, Copia, DMC, Facebook, Google Editions, Ingram, iPad, Kindle, Microsoft, Nook, Quark, Sony, Toshiba, Windows Phone 7, XPS

What will be the big digital issues in January 2011?

May 16, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

I have found a way to describe the difference between the Digital Book World conference we organize for F+W Media and the O’Reilly conference Tools of Change which I believe is accurate and is certainly not intended to be a pejorative description of  Tools of Change. I go to TOC and I find it very valuable, but different […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: App Store, B&N, B&T, Blio, Content Reserve, Copia, Disney, F+W Media, iBooks, Ingram Digital, Ingram Publisher Services, J. A. Konrath, Jane Friedman, Kindle, LibreDigital, NBN, Nook, O'Reilly, Open Road, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Perseus, Pixiq, Poetry Speaks, Safari, Sony, Sterling, Tools of Change

O’Reilly’s Offer of Distribution Points to a Larger Change

March 4, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

One of the most significant pieces of news to come out of Tools of Change is that O’Reilly is going into the distribution business for ebooks. This is indeed, a “tool” of change. It is also a harbinger of times to come that threaten a lot of big companies: major publishers; the big distributors like Perseus, […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, Bookmasters, codeMantra, Content Reserve, Ingram, IPG, LibreDigital, Michael Cader, NBN, North Point, O'Reilly Media, Perseus, Skip Prichard, Tools of Change

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

New ways to sell ebooks aren’t easy to implement

January 29, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 31 Comments

A simple and perfectly sensible suggestion emerged on the Brantley email list yesterday but the conversation around it showed that some stark realities about the book world have not yet been taken on board, even in very sophisticated circles (which this list is.) The list discussed a suggestion from librarian Josh Greenberg  that publishers take note of […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, CNN, Content Reserve, Ingram, Josh Greenberg, Kobo, Michael Cader, New York Times Bestseller List, Robert Gottlieb, Rocketbook, Softbook, Sprout, Steve Jobs, Wall Street Journal, Walter Mossberg

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