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The ebook marketplace could definitely confuse the average consumer

September 17, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 32 Comments

There are no links in this post. I refer to searches done in several ebookstores, but the pages reporting results would be dynamic, so creating a link wouldn’t assure you’d see the same results as I saw. You can replicate the searches and you may or may not see the same thing because the facts […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "George Washington", "Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy", B&N, Caroline Kennedy, Fall of Giants, Google ebooks, Hyperion, iBookstore, Kobo, Nook

It’s hard to figure out pricing for ebooks from anecdotal evidence

April 25, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 49 Comments

The Wall Street Journal wrote last week about what we have been concerned about for some time: how hard it will be for publishers to sustain book prices as supply (of books) rises faster than demand because of all the self-publishing being done. WSJ built their story around John Locke, whose thrillers are 99 cents […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Fall of Giants, John Locke, Ken Follett, Kindle, Kobo, Penguin, Wall Street Journal

Opportunity doesn’t knock, it pounds!

February 5, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

In a recent post, I contemplated the developing ebook markets around the world, and particularly in Europe, and observed that ten years or more of digitization efforts in the English-speaking world would have a sizeable impact on the ebook markets in other language countries. When I wrote about this earlier, it was to enumerate the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models Tagged With: Borders, Fall of Giants, IfBookThen Conference, Ken Follett

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