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Show me the data!

January 16, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 24 Comments

One thing we try to do at Digital Book World is to present our audiences with useful, relevant, and, when we can, original data. It is a familiar complaint in our industry that we drive blind. Part of that is due to the sheer diversity and granularity of the “book business”. And another part is […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: A.T. Kearney, AllRomance.com, Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Amy Henry, Association of Booksellers for Children, Barnes & Noble, Bill Newlin, BISG, BookData, Bookigee, Bookrepublic, BookScan, Bowker, Disney, Forrester Research, Fran Toolan, HarperCollins, IfBookThen, Ira Mayer, Jack McKeown, James McQuivey, Jonathan Nowell, Kelly Gallagher, Kobo, Kristen McLean, Lorraine Shanley, metadata, Nielsen, Oren Teicher, Scholastic, Verso Media, Youth Beat, Youth Market Alerts

Some pre-Thanksgiving stuffing

November 24, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

A few things worthy of a pre-Thanksgiving comment have passed in front of my eyeballs in the past few days. 1. Sainsbury’s, one of the big supermarket chains in Britain, has announced that it will open a digital download store before Christmas. They’re starting with movies and music, but plan to expand to ebooks before […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, China Daily, Connie Sayre, Copia, Forrester Research, Google, Google Editions, Google Translate, HarperCollins, iBookstore, Jess Johns, Kindle, Kobo, Market Partners International, Nook, Sainsbury's, Sarah Weinman, Walden

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

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