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Publishers are reshaping themselves

March 12, 2013 by Admin 18 Comments

It was reported last week that Hyperion plans to sell off its “backlist” to focus its attention on new titles it will develop in conjunction with its corporate cousins at Disney and ABC. This follows Wiley’s selling a lot of the most bookstore-dependent parts of its list, including the sale of Frommer’s Guides to Google, […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: ABC, Disney, Frommer's, Google, Hachette, Hyperion, Wiley

Hats off to Amazon

September 10, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 73 Comments

When the story of how Amazon came to dominate the consumer book business is written ten years from now, there will need to be a chapter entitled “September 6, 2012”. Of course, that was the day that Judge Cote approved the settlement agreed to by HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster and began the process […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, rights, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Wool", agile publishing model, Amazon, Apple, Audible, Barnes & Noble, Cliffs Notes, David Houle, Dominique Raccah, FreeTime, Frommer's, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Hugh Howey, iMDB, Immersion Reading, Judge Cote, Kindle, Kindle Serials, Kobo, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Nook, Penguin, Random House, Reading Rainbow, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, Storia, Whispersync, Wiley

Some brief comment on news items from this week

August 15, 2012 by Admin 13 Comments

Wiley announced a few months ago that they wanted to sell some of their most consumer-oriented lines of books (although, as Cader makes clear, what they announced they wanted to sell constituted only about 20% of the sales volume of the division that houses these titles.) The first sale under that initiative was announced this […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Bob Kohn, Department of Justice, Fodor's, Frommer's, Google, Hachette, Harper, Kayak, Michael Cader, Random House, Royalty Share, Simon & Schuster, The New York Times, Wiley, Zagat

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