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Jane Litte explains the DoJ suit very well, and I have a couple of points to add

April 22, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

Jane Litte at the DearAuthor blog has written a remarkably concise, clear, and cogent piece about the DoJ case. This whole paragraph is a link to it. That’s a signal. In fact, if this is a subject of high interest to you and you are not a lawyer, I would encourage you to read Jane’s post before you […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, David Shanks, DearAuthor, Department of Justice, DOJ, iBooks, Jane Litte, Kindle, Nook, Random House

How will you win at ebook retailing?

December 15, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 19 Comments

I read all my books on my iPhone and my idiosyncracy is to have different books open in various ebook readers at the same time. This is a drastic change from my lifetime habit of reading one book at a time. I never knew I’d enjoy reading this way because the physical limitations of carrying […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive by John Nordell, "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey A. Moore, "Joe Cronin" by Mark Armour, "The Autobiography of Mark Twain", "Washington" by Ron Chernow, Copia, Diesel Ebooks, Google Books, IBIS Reader, iBooks, iPad, iPhone, Ken Follett, Kindle, Kobo, Liza Daly, Nook reader, Palm, Stieg Larsson

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

The other comparison: ebook royalties versus ebook self-publishing

August 30, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 40 Comments

My last post tried to lay out a comparison of royalties paid by big publishers to agented authors on ebooks against what they pay on print books. What it showed is that the authors suffer a bit on ebook sales that substitute for hardcover print sales, but that they do pretty well selling an ebook […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: A Year in Mudville, Andrew Wylie, Author Solutions, B&N, Bookmasters, Diesel ebook Store, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, Mark Coker, Random House, Scribd, Smashwords, Sony

White labeled specialty stores, not ebook superstores, are the future

July 5, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

One of the recurring characteristics of “change” is that the first iteration of something new looks a lot like what it is replacing. So it has been with ebooks and ebook retailing. The ebooks themselves have, for the most part, been the same as the print books except rendered on a screen instead of on […]

Filed Under: Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon.com, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Copia, Dotlit, F+W Media, Google, iBooks, Ingram, Kindle, Kobo, Len Shatzkin, Mobi, Palm

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