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How will you win at ebook retailing?

December 15, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 19 Comments

I read all my books on my iPhone and my idiosyncracy is to have different books open in various ebook readers at the same time. This is a drastic change from my lifetime habit of reading one book at a time. I never knew I’d enjoy reading this way because the physical limitations of carrying […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive by John Nordell, "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey A. Moore, "Joe Cronin" by Mark Armour, "The Autobiography of Mark Twain", "Washington" by Ron Chernow, Copia, Diesel Ebooks, Google Books, IBIS Reader, iBooks, iPad, iPhone, Ken Follett, Kindle, Kobo, Liza Daly, Nook reader, Palm, Stieg Larsson

Why offshore ebook customers are so often frustrated

November 7, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

People of a certain age — mine — probably first encountered the world of rights as a content consumer with pop music in the 1960s. British albums, which came in sleeves that were flimsier cardboard than American album sleeves, routinely had 15 songs. American albums had 12. And the British would put songs out as […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Beatles, Diesel Ebooks, DRM, Giants, iBookstore, Jane Litte, Michael Cader, Rolling Stones

Aside from the publishers: how the other stakeholders fare as ebook adoption continues

July 21, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

In three prior posts, we’ve explored the initial conversation that surrounded the announcement that Sourcebooks would delay the ebook release of Bran Hambric; sketched out what we think are the four stages of ebook adoption; and looked at how publishers see the early “establishment” stage, which is where we are now. This post is about the […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Add new tag, Adobe Reader, Amazon, B&N, Baker & Taylor, BookSurge, Bran Hambric, Content Reserve, Diesel Ebooks, dot lit, IDPF, Indigo, Kindle, Microsoft, Mobipocket, OverDrive, Palm Digital, Palm Pilot, Peanut Press, Powell's, Scribd, Smashwords, Sony Reader, Sourcebooks

This ebook thing is just going to get more complicated

March 23, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

Adam Hodgkin at the Exact Editions blog posted a piece that explains the ebook strategies of Apple, Amazon, and Google in simple terms. Hodgkin’s piece really helps think things through, but I think his analysis is a bit oversimplified (which is part of why it helps think things through.) Hodgkin sees brilliance in Apple’s move not to […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Hodgkin, Adobe Reader, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Diesel Ebooks, eReader, ExactEditions, Fictionwise, Google, iPhone, Kindle, Michael Tamblyn, Nokia, Powell's, RIM, Scrollmotion, Sony, Stanza, Waterstone's

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