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Four of the big five have new deals with Amazon and only the biggest is still to negotiate one

April 24, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

A reporter called earlier this week focused on what he figures are the upcoming negotiations over trading terms between Amazon and Penguin Random House. I had observed when Amazon was throwing sharp elbows at Hachette during their contractual dispute that Amazon wouldn’t try similar tactics with PRH. Since then, with HarperCollins and Amazon having announced […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Abrams, Amazon, B&N Nook, Big Five, Big Six, Bloomsbury, Books-a-Million, Cambridge, Chronicle, DOJ, Egmont, Following Four, Google Play, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harry Potter, iBookstore, Justice Cote, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, Macmillan, Oxford, Oyster, Penguin Random House, PRH, Quarto, Running Press, Scholastic, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Tor.com

Publisher margins today may be enviable, but it will be a big challenge to keep them that way

June 26, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 33 Comments

The major publishers have apparently worked themselves into a very strong commercial position at the moment with the transition to ebooks. I say “apparently” because the data that gives the most recent rise to that understanding — a presentation by HarperCollins of the current economics — is somewhat incomplete. What Michael Cader reported in Publishers […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Aardvark blog, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Brian Defiore, Brian Murray, DOJ, HarperCollins, Kindle, Michael Cader, Publishers Lunch, Simon & Schuster

The ebook marketplace is about to change…a lot

July 26, 2012 by Jess 44 Comments

Now that the DoJ’s response to the public comments has made it overwhelmingly likely that the settlement it negotiated with Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster will be accepted by the Court, it is time to contemplate the changes we’ll see in the ebook marketplace in the next couple of months. The settlement requires the […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Apple, B&N, DOJ, Hachette, HarperCollins, iBookstore, Kobo, Macmillan, Penguin, Random House, Robinson-Patman, Simon & Schuster

Royalty Share CEO Bob Kohn alleges DoJ violates the Tunney Act

July 12, 2012 by Jess 8 Comments

According to Bob Kohn, an attorney and the CEO of Royalty Share, the Tunney Act very clearly requires that the Justice Department publish (and it was thought originally that this meant “print”) all the public comment they got within the alloted comment period. Kohn says that’s what the law states clearly, as upheld in a […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Politics, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Bob Kohn, Conference on Ethics and Publishing, DOJ, George Washington University, iBookstore, iPad, Picholine, Royalty Share, Tunney Act

Auletta’s New Yorker piece is good orientation for thinking about the DoJ case

June 25, 2012 by Jess 38 Comments

Writing about the lawsuit the DoJ has instituted against Apple and five leading publishers is very hard. It’s a big issue and doing it justice requires navigating two very large and complex bodies of knowledge: anti-trust law and the trade book publishing business. Whenever I write about it, I feel handicapped because I don’t know […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Politics, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Paper Trail", Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Color Nook, David Young, DOJ, Facebook, Google, Hachette USA, iBookstore, Ken Auletta, Kindle, Kobo, Markus Dohle, Microsoft, Nook, Random House, Simon Lipskar, The New Yorker, United States Department of Justice

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