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Why books are different and why enterprises will be discovering they should be issuing them

July 5, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

My most recent post noted the rise of what I called “enterprise self-publishing”. It increasingly looks to me like enterprise-driven book publishing will become the dominant provider of books over the next decade. What distinguishes it is book publishing as a function in support of other efforts, rather than as a stand-alone business intended to […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, rights, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, Books in Print, Dan Gerstein, Gotham Ghostwriters, Gotham Publishing Solutions, Ingram, IngramSpark, ISBN numbers, Jane Friedman, Kindle Direct Publishing, Substack

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