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A changing book business: it all seems to be flowing downhill to Amazon

January 22, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

Amazon’s introduction of the Kindle in 2007 was followed rapidly by other ebook systems — Kobo, Google, B&N’s Nook, and Apple’s iBook — and widely-available print-on-demand capabilities for printed books offered by Ingram (Lightning Print was already a decade old) and Amazon’s CreateSpace. Amazon had long exploited price as a weapon in the marketplace, discounting […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Publishing, Apple, B&N, BookScan, Bookstat.com, Borders, CreateSpace, Data Guy, Google, Hugh Howey, iBook, Ingram, Kindle, Kobo, Lightning Print, Nook, Penguin, PubTrack, Random House

Looking at the iPad from an ebook reader’s perspective

April 12, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 39 Comments

Here’s a quick review of the iPad. I’ve had it for a few days now and, based on what I know so far, it isn’t going to be a very important part of my life. It has great capabilities, but it has real limitations. The capsule summary is “not as good for straight text ereading […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing Tagged With: Elements, iBook, iPad, Kassia Kroszer, Kindle, Kobo, Netflix, Vook

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