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Observations on a conversation with Hachette’s digital leaders

March 15, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

I really enjoyed listening to David Young and Maja Thomas, Hachette’s Chairman/CEO and top digital strategist, respectively, chat with industry veteran and blogger Charlotte Abbott on Blogtalk radio. All three are friends and people for whom I have a lot of respect. I generally prefer reading to listening as a way to take in information, but this […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, B&N, Blio, Bowker, Charlotte Abbott, Copia, David Young, Dominique Raccah, Google Editions, Hachette Book Group, iPublish, iStore, James Sturdivant, Kobo, Maja Thomas, Publishing Business magazine, PubTrack

Are free ebooks a good idea or not?

January 24, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 47 Comments

Kindle is certainly engendering a lot of confusion by billboarding the downloads of free ebooks as “sales.” That paradoxical scorekeeping was the lead for an article by Motoko Rich in The New York Times on Saturday that quoted a lot of people, some apparently disagreeing with each other, but none of them necessarily wrong. There […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Free", Amazon, Brian O'Leary, Chris Anderson, David Young, DRM, Hachette, Harper Collins, HarperStudio blog, Hyperion, Kindle, Kobo, Len Shatzkin, Magellan Media, Michael Tamblyn, Mindy Stockfield, Motoko Rich, New York Times, Penguin, Random House, Steve Ross, Tim McCall, USA Today

The tipping has really already started

January 6, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

The idea of an “Ebook Tipping Point” panel for Digital Book World arose when I wrote a blogpost last August https://idealog.com/blog/ebook-growth-explosive-serious-disruptions-around-the-corner on the occasion of the regular monthly release of the IDPF’s ebook sales figures. It was clear then that very substantial percentages of the sale of new narrative fiction and non-fiction were going to […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: David Young, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, F+W Media, Ken Brooks, Larry Kirshbaum, Michael Cader, Simon & Schuster

The ebook windowing controversy has subtext

December 10, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 101 Comments

It took me a couple of days of pondering this to come to my current understanding of it, but I now think that Carolyn Reidy of Simon & Schuster and David Young of Hachette Book Group, since joined by Brian Murray of HarperCollins, are not really fighting a battle to rescue hardcover books from price […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Brian Murray, Carolyn Reidy, David Young, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Kindle, Nook, Random House, Scrollmotion, Simon & Schuster, Wall Street Journal

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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