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When an author should self-publish and how that might change

April 17, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

There is a question that every agent and publisher is dealing with, because authors surely are. And that’s this: when should an author self- (or indie-) publish? The answer is certainly not “never”, and if there is anybody left in a publishing house who thinks it is, they should think a little harder. For a […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Arthur Klebanoff, Curtis Brown, Diversion, Ereads, Joe Konrath, Open Road, Richard Curtis, Rosetta Books, Trident, Waxman-Leavell Agency, Writer's House

Now HERE is an experiment that looks like it worked and is worthy of replication

October 31, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

The new opportunity to publish a book without printed inventory has been popularized primarily by self-publishing authors and by new fledgling publishing enterprises like Entangled and Byliner following in the footsteps of earlier pioneers like eReads and Ellora’s Cave and, more recently, Open Road. This changes the economics of publishing substantially, taking a very large […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Alibi, Byliner, Carina Press, Corriere della Sera, Ellora's Cave, Entangled, Ereads, Flirt, Harlequin, HarperCollins, HarperTeen Impulse, Hydra, Loveswept, Marcello Vena, Open Road, Random House, RCS Libri, Rizzoli Lab, You Crime

True “do-it-yourself” publishing success stories will probably become rare

November 6, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 145 Comments

Getting ready for our eBooks for Everyone Else conferences, I discovered an author named Bob Mayer who impressed me with his self-publishing zeal and apparent success. Bob has written lots of military fiction, science fiction, even a romance novel, and some non-fiction: dozens of books over the years for major publishers. Most of it was […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amanada Hocking, Amazon, Barry Eisler, Bob Mayer, Bookmasters, Deidre Knight, Diversion Books, Ereads, Google, Joe Konrath, John Locke, KDP, Kindle, Kobo, Laura Rennert, Nook, Open Road, Publishers Lunch, Rosetta, Scott Waxman, Smashwords, Sony

Which flies the coop first? the chicken or the egg?

June 19, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

There are lessons that can be taught or learned in one segment of publishing that can then apply to another. Well over a decade ago, Mark Bide and I were discussing the business model for journals. The way it works is that the university pays the professors a salary and rewards them with promotions and […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Arthur Klebanoff, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Borders, Ereads, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jane Friedman, Kindle, Larry Kirshbaum, Mark Bide, Open Road, Richard Curtis, SparkNotes, Sterling

A debate across panels is coming at our London show on June 21

June 8, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

It looks like we’re going to have a bit of an unintended debate stretching across several of our panels at the Publishers Launch show in London. Since I’m the guy who put the show together, I can speak with authority to the fact that it was really unintended. But I consider it serendipitous and proof […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAR, Branch Rickey, Charlie Campbell, Curtis Brown, David Miller, Diversion, Ed Victor Ltd., Ereads, F+W Media, Jonny Geller, Michael Cader, O'Reilly, Peter Cox, Philip Jones, Publishers Association, Redhammer, Richard Charkin, Richard Curtis, Richard Mollett, Rogers Coleridge and White, Scott Waxman, StartWithXML, Toby Mundy, Tools of Change

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