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Prices of ebooks and related matters

February 24, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

A great conversation broke out on the blog for Bob Miller’s new Harper imprint, HarperStudio I realized after I wrote a response that it summarized what might be useful thinking for publishers wrestling with the revenue potential of ebooks because it presents a frame, a way to think about it.  Because it starts at the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: experimentation, HarperStudio blog, retail margins, value and scarcity

15 Trends To Watch In 2008

January 7, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Industry guru Mike Shatzkin foresees big gains in e-book sales, consolidation among literary agencies, a jump in customized book sales and much more…. You won’t catch me climbing out onto any billion-dollar limbs as I offer my forecast for book publishing in 2008, but some of the changes I envision do call for fundamental changes in how the business operates. There is an overarching theme to the changes already taking place. Consumer media in the 20th century tended to be horizontal and format-specific. The New York Times and Random House define “horizontal”: they publish across all interests and markets. The Internet will drive 21st-century publishing enterprises to be more like what professional publishing has always been: highly vertical and format-agnostic.

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