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Will juvie publishing remain a book business as tablets take over?

November 1, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

This post will discuss a realization I had even before this morning’s news about the developing e-products scene. I’ve always been a skeptic about enhanced ebooks, based on seeing my hunch that they wouldn’t work come true 15 years ago with CD-Roms. But it is increasingly obvious that CD-Rom type thinking will work very well […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing Tagged With: Alice fo the iPad, Apple, Callaway Digital Arts, CD-Roms, Disney, Dr. Seuss. Berenstain Bears, Electronic Arts, Google, Hasbro, Hay House, iFund, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Marc Jaffe, Nickelodeon, NOOKcolor, Oceanhouse Media, Publishers Lunch, Rabbit Ears Library, Random House, Rick Richter, Rodale, Ruckus Media Group, Simon & Schuster, Smashing Ideas, The Jungle Book, The Wizard of Oz, Trilogy Studios, War of the Worlds

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

Big publishers have reason to be happy about how the book market is evolving

June 21, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

Big publishers have to be very happy about how things have been developing in the ebook world over the last six months or so. In that time, we have gone from a situation in which Kindle appeared to so totally dominate digital reading that Kindle-only publishing seemed an imminent threat to disintermediate publishers to one […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Adobe Digital Editions, Amazon, Android, B&N, Blackberry, Blio, Borders, Calibre, Copia, DRM, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, Kirk Biglione, Kobo, Nook, Sony Reader

VIDEO: Planning for a Long Career in an Industry That’s Changing

December 17, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Mike’s speech to a packed house at Hachette, as part of a lunchtime lecture series known as The Publishing Point. Delivering what proved to be a thought-provoking and farsighted view of the future of the book industry, Mike had some clear advice for those planning a long career in publishing: the companies that will succeed will be those that focus on building compelling content for well-defined “vertical communities.”

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Blio, blog, book clubs, Book of the Month, BookScan, Cathy's Book, Daily Lit, dedicated device, eBooks, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, iPhone, Kindle, Kirkus, Macmillan, Penguin, Perseus, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, television, The Publishing Point, verticle

Baker & Taylor has the next big thing in ebooks. Really!

December 8, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 44 Comments

We’re about to see the Next Big Thing in ebooks next month and it’s coming from Baker & Taylor. Baker & Taylor? For the past ten years, Baker & Taylor in relation to Ingram has looked remarkably similar to Borders in relation to Barnes & Noble. Ingram and B&N are family-owned companies (although B&N has […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Borders, Consumer Electronics Show, Google, Ingram, iPhone, K-NFB, Linda Gagnon, National Foundation of the Blind, Ray Kurzweil, Scrollmotion, Vook

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