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Now Kings of ebook subscription, what will impede the ebook share growth for Amazon?

February 17, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

With the news this morning that Scribd has thrown in the towel on unlimited ebook subscriptions, Amazon is the last player standing with an “all-you-can-eat” ebook subscription offer for a general audience. The juxtaposition of the publishers’ insistence on being paid full price for ebooks being lent once and the late Oyster’s and the now thrice-hobbled […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Department of Justice, Digital Book World, Digital Reader, Google, iBooks, Jonathan Kanter, Judge Cote, Kensington, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, Nate Hoffelder, Nook, Oyster, Pete McCarthy, Publishers Lunch, Scribd, Steve Zacharius

Rethinking what’s happening with ebook prices

September 13, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

Could I have gotten the DoJ impact on ebook pricing completely wrong? Could the elimination of the Apple-mandated pricing bands actually be such a good thing for publishers that loosening the restraints on discounting won’t actually disrupt the marketplace? The early evidence seems to point that way although we need to emphasize the word “early”. […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Department of Justice, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Nate Hoffelder, Penguin, Random House, Simon & Schuster, The Digital Reader

Some brief comment on news items from this week

August 15, 2012 by Jess 13 Comments

Wiley announced a few months ago that they wanted to sell some of their most consumer-oriented lines of books (although, as Cader makes clear, what they announced they wanted to sell constituted only about 20% of the sales volume of the division that houses these titles.) The first sale under that initiative was announced this […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Bob Kohn, Department of Justice, Fodor's, Frommer's, Google, Hachette, Harper, Kayak, Michael Cader, Random House, Royalty Share, Simon & Schuster, The New York Times, Wiley, Zagat

Perhaps the revolution has reached an evolutionary stage

August 13, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

The dizzying pace at which US consumers were switching from print to digital couldn’t last forever. Based on the numbers being published by the AAP, with a huge assist in interpretation by Michael Cader at Publishers Lunch, it seems that the slowdown has become very noticeable in the past 12 months. Between late 2007 when […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Vertical Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Apple, BookStats, Carolyn Reidy, Department of Justice, Faber, Kindle, Michael Cader, Penguin, Publishers Lunch, Simon & Schuster

Jane Litte explains the DoJ suit very well, and I have a couple of points to add

April 22, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

Jane Litte at the DearAuthor blog has written a remarkably concise, clear, and cogent piece about the DoJ case. This whole paragraph is a link to it. That’s a signal. In fact, if this is a subject of high interest to you and you are not a lawyer, I would encourage you to read Jane’s post before you […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, David Shanks, DearAuthor, Department of Justice, DOJ, iBooks, Jane Litte, Kindle, Nook, Random House

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