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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

A coming new obsession: how to handle a smaller print-book business

October 24, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 61 Comments

Here’s a prediction that has almost no chance of being wrong. Every major player in the trade book industry is about to develop a new obsession: how must our business model change when we reach a level of ebook sales that is dynamically disruptive to the print book ecosystem? This might not be exactly a […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, DRM, Evan Schnittman, IDPF, Ken Brooks, Kindle, Larry Kirshbaum, Michael Cader, Michael Pietsch, Nook

The Sourcebooks experiment with Bran Hambric: publishers in the early “establishment” stage of ebook adoption

July 20, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

In a post last week we reviewed what Sourcebook CEO Dominque Raccah did — announcing she was holding back the ebook publication of a new hardcover YA novel coming this September — and why she said she did it. Over the weekend, we posted about what we see as the four stages of ebook adoption. […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Arthur Andersen, B&N, Dominique Rac, Evan Schnittman, Forrester Research, Kindle, Michael Cader, Rocketbook, Scribd, Smashwords, Softbook, Sony Reader, Sourcebooks

Another copyright reshuffle that’s in the cards

May 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

Evan Schnittman at Black Plastic Glasses posted the final chunk of a 3-parter yesterday that contained a real shocker (to me) at the end. The 3-part post shows through Evan’s personal experience that a) we now insist that content come when we want it and how we want it and b) the very existence of […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Black Plastic Glasses, copyright law, Evan Schnittman

Times Book Review on advances, and related thoughts

April 11, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

The NY Times Book Review published a piece on advances online today to which I was first pointed by Twitter early this morning. I couldn’t tell whether author Michael Meyer was “for ’em or agin’ ’em”. On the one hand, he seemed to suggest that publishers are inclined to overpay, and he cites Public Affairs head […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Bantam, Bill Shinker, Black Plastic Glasses, Evan Schnittman, Iacocca, Michael Meyer, NY Times Book Review, Peter Mayer, Peter Osnos, Princess Daisy, Senator Mark Hatfield

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