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Lots of Spanish speakers in the United States, but not so much of a book market for Spanish books

April 19, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Somebody somewhere reported last month that the United States is the home country to the second largest number of Spanish-speakers in the world, after Mexico. Since I am speaking in Madrid to Spanish publishers at the end of May, that seemed like something I should learn more about. The US must be a market. The […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, rights, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Uncategorized, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, American Book Group, Atria, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Costco, Dan Brown, E L James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George R. R. Martin, Hachette, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Espanol, HarperCollins Iberica, Ingram, Isabel Allende, Jenni Rivera, John Grisham, Judith Curr, Junot Diaz, Laura Esquivel, Paulo Coelho, Penguin Random House, PRH Grupo Editorial, ReaderLink, Roberto Bolano, Sandra Cisneros, Simon & Schuster, Spanish Publishers, Stephen King

Holding back the ebook

September 30, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

The tactic of keeping the ebook off the market to “protect” hardcover sales, first executed by Sourcebooks this month on behalf of Bran Hambric, is becoming more widespread. At the same time that Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol was released simultaneously in cloth and digital, Ted Kennedy’s posthumous True Compass was released in print with the ebook withheld. […]

Filed Under: Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Bran Hambric, Dan Brown, Ellora's Cave, Kassia Kroszer, Kindle, Lost Symbol, Raelene Gorlinsky, Sourcebooks, Ted Kennedy, True Compass

Ebook growth explosive; serious disruptions around the corner

August 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 42 Comments

The news about trade ebook sales growth continues apace. The IDPF has just said that sales in June 2009 were up 136% over June a year ago. Calendar year sales to date are up about 150% over 2008. Anecdotal information from big trade houses suggests that ebook sales are approaching 3% of total sales. But […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barbara Kingsolver, Barnes & Noble, Content Reserve, Dan Brown, E.L. Doctorow, IDPF, Indigo, John Irving, Jon Krakauer, Kindle, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Attwood, Michael Crichton, Pat Conroy, Philip Roth, Random House, Scribd, Shortcovers, Smashwords, Sony Reader

An ebook experiment stirs up conversation

July 17, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

The Wall Street Journal was the first to announce, on Monday, (behind a pay wall, but Google “Publisher Delays E-book Amid Debate On Pricing” and you’ll get it) that Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah was holding back the ebook publication of a new hardcover YA novel, Bran Hambric, scheduled for release this September. Raccah’s explanation to the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Add new tag, Amazon, Brad Stone, Bran Hambric, Dan Brown, Dominique Raccah, Doubleday, Ereads, Kaleb Nation, Kassia Krozser, Kindle, Michael Cader, Motoko Rich, New York Times, Peter Brantley, Richard Curtis, Robert Gottlieb, Sourcebooks, Stephen King, Ted Kennedy, Wall Street Journal

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