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The motivation of the publisher-bashing commentariat is what I cannot figure out

September 29, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 318 Comments

Once again this morning we wake up to a piece by David Streitfeld in The New York Times about Authors United and their ongoing effort to discredit Amazon. The message coming loud and clear from the legacy publishing establishment is that Amazon doesn’t appreciate, and perhaps doesn’t understand, the value that agents, publishers, and chain and […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing Tagged With: "Wool", 24Symbols, Amazon, AuthorEarnings, Authors United, Barry Eisler, Bookbub, Chuck Wendig, David Streitfeld, e Unlimited, Hachette, Hugh Howey, Joe Konrath, Jonathan Nowell, Josh Schanker, Judge Cote, Judith Curr, Ken Auletta, Kindl, KOLL, Lee Child, Matthew Greenfield, Michael Cader, New York Times, Oyster, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd, Walter Isaacson

Are Amazon exclusives the next big challenge for everybody else in publishing?

September 22, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

Somebody smarter (or more patient about wading through data) than I am could probably figure out how far along this bifurcation is already, but Amazon is doing its very best to build a body of content that is desirable and available from nobody else but them. This is something you can do when you’re in […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Atria, Authors United, David Streitfeld, Entangled, George McBride Media, Hachette, Hugh Howey, Judith Curr, Keywords Press, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle Unlimited, Michael Cader, New York Times, Peter K. Borland, Publishers Lunch, Simon & Schuster

This is a teamwork play that could really give Amazon a headache if they got together

August 19, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

I will admit that I have long been among those who believe that Amazon has what amounts to an enduring stranglehold on the book business. They have achieved a market share — which could be in the neighborhood of half the trade books sold if you combine print and digital versions — that is unprecedented […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Borders, David Streitfeld, George Orwell, Google, Google Shopping Express, Hugh Howey, Ingram, Jake Kerr, Kindle, Microsoft, Nook, Suw Charman-Anderson

Amazon channels Orwell in its latest blast

August 9, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 243 Comments

Anybody who reads Amazon’s latest volley in the Amazon-Hachette war and then David Streitfeld’s takedown of it on the New York Times’s web site will know that Amazon — either deliberately or with striking ignorance — distorted a George Orwell quote to make it appear that he was against low-priced paperbacks when he was actually […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 1984, Amazon, Anchor Books, Ballantine, Brentano's, David Streitfeld, Doubleday, Douglas Preston, Espresso Book Machine, Fawcett, George Orwell, Hachette, Jason Epstein, Jeff Bezos, Leonard Shazkin, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Pietsch, NY Review of Books, Penguin, Philip Van Doren Stern, Random House, Sid Gross Doubleday Bookshops, Viking

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