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Two pieces of news last week that foretell changes in the ebook marketplace

August 24, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

Two pieces of news this past week and how things play out with them might foretell some things about the direction of the ebook market. One news item is that reading on phones is really taking off.  More than half of ebook consumers use their phones at least some of the time and the number that […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Android, Apple, Apple iBooks, Atria, Baen, Carina, DRM, DRM-free, German ebook market, Google, Google Play, Harlequin, Holtzbrinck, iBooks, interstitial reading, iPhone, James Patterson, Joe Esposito, Judith Curr, Kobo, Molly Barton, Nook, O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media, Palm Pilot, Random House, S&S, Serial Box, Tim O'Reilly, Tom Doherty, Tor

Headliners galore will address Digital Book World 2015

December 18, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

Half of Digital Book World is delivered to the entire audience from the Main Stage. The speakers for 2015 comprise the most illustrious group we have ever had. The headine is definitely that we have managed to corral both Amazon and Apple speakers for our main stage — a feat we don’t believe any other […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It", "Put Me in the Story", "The Innovators", Alloy, Amazon, Amplify, Apple, Atria, Bit.ly, Brian Murray, Content Marketing Institute, David Nussbaum, Google, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Hilary Mason, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I See Me, iBookstore, James Robinson, Joe Pulizzi, Jonathan Nowell, Judith Curr, Keith Moerer, Ken Auletta, Kickstarter, Launch Kids, Linda Zecher, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners International, Matthew Greenfield, Michael Cader, Nielsen Book, Paper Lantern Lit, Rethink Education, Rick Chapman, Russ Grandinetti, S&S, Seth Godin, Sourcebooks, Speakaboos, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Thomas Nelson, Walter Isaacson, Wattpad

Now HERE is an experiment that looks like it worked and is worthy of replication

October 31, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

The new opportunity to publish a book without printed inventory has been popularized primarily by self-publishing authors and by new fledgling publishing enterprises like Entangled and Byliner following in the footsteps of earlier pioneers like eReads and Ellora’s Cave and, more recently, Open Road. This changes the economics of publishing substantially, taking a very large […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Alibi, Byliner, Carina Press, Corriere della Sera, Ellora's Cave, Entangled, Ereads, Flirt, Harlequin, HarperCollins, HarperTeen Impulse, Hydra, Loveswept, Marcello Vena, Open Road, Random House, RCS Libri, Rizzoli Lab, You Crime

More on atomization: why the new publishers are coming

March 26, 2013 by Jess 38 Comments

The most recent post here laid out a future for trade publishing that will be less and less about traditional publishers and more and more about non-traditional publishers delivering books into the marketplace without the financing or “approval” of a profit-seeking publisher. That’s a radical change from the industry we’ve seen grow over the past […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: American Express Publishing, Atavist, Barry Diller, Brightline, Byliner, Chronicle of Higher Education, Conde Nast, Constellation, Cosmopolitan, Daily Beast, Diversion, Esquire, Frederator, Harlequin, Hearst, Ingram, INscribe, Jeremy Greenfield, Kindle, NBC News, New York Times, Newsweek, Open Road, Perseus, Playboy, Provincetown Public LIbrary, Rosetta Books, Saturday Evening Post, Scientific American, TED, The Atlantic, Toronto Star, US Army, USA Today, USA Tomorrow, Vook, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Wharton Business School, Xiamen Blackbird Cartoon Company

Two new initiatives to ponder as we end the year

December 28, 2012 by Jess 1 Comment

Two announcements made in the last two weeks caught our attention. One was Simon & Schuster’s deal with Author Solutions, creating a new Archway Editions publishing imprint. This was the third such major deal with a publisher for ASI, following similar arrangements forged with romance publisher Harlequin and Christian publisher Thomas Nelson (now owned by […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Amazon, Archway Editions, Author Solutions, Bella Andre, Bookateria, Bookish, F+W Media, Ganxy, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Hay House, Hugh Howey, Impelsys, Indiebound, John Locke, Macmillan, Osprey, Politico, Politics & Prose, Publishers Lunch, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Thomas Nelson, Tor Books, Zola

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