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I thought I was writing a blog, but it turns out I wrote a book!

April 15, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

An ebook of the first two years of The Shatzkin Files is now available and will be linked for the forseeable future from our left nav bar. This post is the introduction to the ebook, which explains how it came about. My friend, Joe Esposito, first told me about blogs in the early part of […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Bobby Kennedy, Cameron Drew, David Drew, Google Editions, Gwyn Headley, iPad, Joe Esposito, Kindle, Kobo, Leonard Shatzkin, Mayor Richard Daley, Nook, Pierre Salinger, Richard Charkin, The View from Underneath, UCLA Daily Bruin

Most dramatic publishing event of 2010? Introducing agency pricing!

November 30, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

Ed Nawotka, the editor of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s online publication “Publishing Perspectives”, is running a series of pieces responding to his question “what was the most dramatic event in publishing in 2010?” Here’s the answer from The Shatzkin Files. The most dramatic event in publishing in 2010? That’s easy. It was the face-down between […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Agency 5, Apple, Ed Nawotka, Frankfurt Book Fair, Google Editions, iBookstore, Kindle, Kobo, Macmillan, Nook, Peter Wiley, Publishing Perspectives, Random House

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

Insights about the current state of the ebook market

October 21, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

I had a chance this week to chat with a very smart person who works for a company that does a lot of business with book publishers. Some things articulated themselves in that conversation — one of my favorite collaborators, Mark Bide, has often observed that we “learn a lot by talking” — that seemed […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: agency model, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, Copia, Google Editions, hybrid model, iBooks, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Kobo, Mark Bide, wholesale model

Three new ebook platforms nearing their debut

August 4, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

A year ago — even six months ago — it seemed like Amazon and its Kindle device had an insurmountable advantage in the ebook device and platform competition. Despite our admonition that Amazon’s dominance of ebooks was much more fragile than their dominance in online print bookselling, even we were impressed and sometimes daunted by […]

Filed Under: Community, eBooks, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Android, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Content Reserve, Copia, DMC, Facebook, Google Editions, Ingram, iPad, Kindle, Microsoft, Nook, Quark, Sony, Toshiba, Windows Phone 7, XPS

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