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By one benchmark at least, we are probably halfway through the (r)evolution

February 13, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

A couple of major (Big Six) publishers have acknowledged that ebook revenues for them have passed 20% of their revenues. Of the 80% that remains print, I think it would be conservative to estimate that 20% of that is sold online. That’s an additional 16 percent of their business. Adding those together tells us that, for at […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Barry Eisler, Big Six, breaking the color line, Doubleday, Ingram, J. A. Konrath, John Locke, John Sargent Sr., Kindle, Leonard Shatzkin, Perseus, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's

Publishers better start using their scale to price better, and soon!

March 8, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 49 Comments

It was just about two years ago that I appeared on a panel at a meeting of agents with, among others, Macmillan CEO John Sargent and Sargent made the point that maintaining ebook pricing and margins was one of the critical challenges facing publishers. Ebook sales were still hovering around one percent of the business. […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Christopher Smith, CNET, Dave Slusher, J. A. Konrath, John Sargent, Macmillan, Neal Goff, Random House, Stephen King, The New York Times, USA Today

There’s only one Seth Godin, but there are other authors who might emulate him

August 23, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

What shoved other news aside this morning was the word from Seth Godin that he won’t be publishing books with publishers anymore. This is another early indication that it is going to get harder and harder for trade publishers to sign up books. It is not the first one. Thriller writer J.A. Konrath discovered the […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: A Year in Mudville, J. A. Konrath, Mark Bide, Seth Godin, Smashwords, Stephen Bagdade, Stephen Covey

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

What will be the big digital issues in January 2011?

May 16, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

I have found a way to describe the difference between the Digital Book World conference we organize for F+W Media and the O’Reilly conference Tools of Change which I believe is accurate and is certainly not intended to be a pejorative description of  Tools of Change. I go to TOC and I find it very valuable, but different […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: App Store, B&N, B&T, Blio, Content Reserve, Copia, Disney, F+W Media, iBooks, Ingram Digital, Ingram Publisher Services, J. A. Konrath, Jane Friedman, Kindle, LibreDigital, NBN, Nook, O'Reilly, Open Road, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Perseus, Pixiq, Poetry Speaks, Safari, Sony, Sterling, Tools of Change

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