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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

Everybody in Hollywood Needs an eBook Strategy

May 14, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

As a result of spending my college days at UCLA, I had a handful of contacts in the Hollywood community when I came back East to live in 1969. When I started becoming familiar with New York publishing in the 1970s, I found myself, on occasion, shopping movie or TV tie-in projects. Armed with a […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "All in the Family", "Casablanca", "Cotton Candy", "Film/TV-to-Book", "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Seinfeld", ABC Video Books, Amanda Hocking, F+W Media, Hollywood, Hyperion, Michael Fabiano, NBC Publishing, Ron Howard, St. Martin's, Story World, UCLA, Warner Brothers Digital Distribution

We’re getting SaaS-y, going Hollywood, and starting to plan Digital Book World 2013

May 2, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

It is hard to believe that we’re starting to plan the fourth annual Digital Book World conference, which will be held January 16-17, 2013 at the Hilton in New York City. But we are. The first DBW was held in 2010. Planning for it began the June before when David Nussbaum and Sara Domville of […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Conferences, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", ABC, AcademicPub, Amazon, aNobii, Book Country, CBS, Copyright Clearance Center, David Houle, David Nussbaum, Digital Book World 2013, F+W Media, Fox, HarperCollins, Hyperion, Macmillan, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, NBC, O'Reilly, Pottermore, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishers Launch Hollywood, Publishing in the Cloud, Rightslink, S&S, SaaS, Safari, Sara Domville, Semi-Linear, Sourcebooks, Tor.com

The ebook marketplace could definitely confuse the average consumer

September 17, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 32 Comments

There are no links in this post. I refer to searches done in several ebookstores, but the pages reporting results would be dynamic, so creating a link wouldn’t assure you’d see the same results as I saw. You can replicate the searches and you may or may not see the same thing because the facts […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "George Washington", "Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy", B&N, Caroline Kennedy, Fall of Giants, Google ebooks, Hyperion, iBookstore, Kobo, Nook

A benchmark event occurred today

May 17, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

A shoe dropped today. Author J. A. Konrath, who has been self-publishing on Kindle and reporting about it for quite some time, just contracted to have the latest in his series of novels featuring female cop Jack Daniels published by the new Amazon Encore imprint. Encore was originally announced as Amazon’s way to pick up and feature already […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon Encore, Google Unbound, Hyperion, J. A. Konrath, Jack Daniels, Jane Dystel, Kindle, Nook

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