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Royalty Share CEO Bob Kohn alleges DoJ violates the Tunney Act

July 12, 2012 by Admin 8 Comments

According to Bob Kohn, an attorney and the CEO of Royalty Share, the Tunney Act very clearly requires that the Justice Department publish (and it was thought originally that this meant “print”) all the public comment they got within the alloted comment period. Kohn says that’s what the law states clearly, as upheld in a […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Politics, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Bob Kohn, Conference on Ethics and Publishing, DOJ, George Washington University, iBookstore, iPad, Picholine, Royalty Share, Tunney Act

The digital future still is a mystery if you don’t publish “immersive reading”

January 4, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

I have made previous mention of my notion that what has been one very cohesive trade book industry would “trifurcate”: break into at least three distinct businesses: 1) books that are straight narrative text intended for immersive reading; 2) adult books that are not straight text, either very chunkable (like cookbooks or travel books) or […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing Tagged With: "1000 Places to See Before You Die", Barnes & Noble, BookBaby, Eloise, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, NOOKcolor, Smashwords, Touchy Books, Workman

An aspect of the Amazon-Apple battle the tech world doesn’t care much about

October 2, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

Almost two years ago, I wrote a post which continues to be one of the most-read in the history of this blog, the point of which was that the business model disruption (called “agency”) prompted by the iPad would have more impact on the ebook ecosystem than the device itself. I’m happy to repeat that […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: agency, Amazon, Apple, Big Six, Google, iBookstore, iPad, Kindle Fire, Kobo, Macmillan, Nook

Four years into the ebook revolution: things we know and things we don’t know

September 25, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 73 Comments

One could say (and I would) that the ereading revolution is coming up to its 4th anniversary since it was late November 2007 when Amazon first released the Kindle. There had been dedicated ereading devices before then, including the Sony Reader — in the market when Kindle arrived and still here, if not wildly successful […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Borders, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Nook Color, Palm Pilot, Rocket Book, Softbook, Sony Bookman, Sony Reader, Waterstone's

Publishing is living in a world not of its own making

July 24, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 32 Comments

A big ebook shoe dropped on Sunday. It dropped on Kobo first. And it has nothing to do with Borders. Kobo just delivered a new iOS (that’s Apple’s operating system for iPad and iPhone) app that no longer contains the direct link to the Kobo bookstore within it. That means that buying new Kobo books […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: aNobii, Barnes & Noble, Bookish, Borders, Google, iBookstore, iOS, iPad, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Nook Children's, Random House

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