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The expected changes in the book business favor Amazon’s share growth

March 5, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

This post is the second that is contemplating two big questions facing the publishing industry: When will the growth in Amazon’s share of the consumer book business stop? Who will be left standing when it does? Amazon applies pressure and generates angst among publishers from two directions. As they grow to be 30% or more […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Brentano's, Charles Scribner's Sons, Crowell-Collier, Deepak Chopra, Doubleday, Forrester, Jackie Collins, Larry Kirshbaum, Leonard Shatzkin, Macmillan, Scribner Bookstore, Simon & Schuster, Sterling, Tim Ferriss, Time Warner Books

Don’t drown walking across the river

November 10, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

An aphorism that I picked up years ago that crosses my mind frequently in my professional life is that “a six-foot tall man drowns walking across a river that’s an average of three feet deep.” The point is that aggregates and averages might mask important truths. I thought of this when I read the news […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Association of Booksellers for Children, B&N, Bain Consultants, BISG, Bowker, Cader, Ellora's Cave, Forrester, iModerate, iPad, Kat Meyer, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, O'Reilly, Safari, Verso Media

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