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Is the new Amazon acquisition something publishers need to think about or not?

August 26, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

If you’re like me, you know a thing or two about the book business but you didn’t know there was a business called Twitch until you heard the announcement this morning that Amazon had bought it for about $1 billion, apparently outbidding or somehow finessing Google to make the purchase. Twitch, I have learned, streams […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Community, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Bob Stein, James McQuivey, New York Times, Richard Nash, Twitch, Wall Street Journal

After the DoJ action, where do we stand?

April 14, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 78 Comments

This post went up around midnight last night (Saturday, 4/14) in London, or between 6 and 7 NY time. I had been concerned about a part of it that has been edited below. If you read it before 5 pm today (Sunday, 4/15), you’ll not have seen this correction. And you’ll see some comments that […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, Bookish, Department of Justice, Hachette, HarperCollins, James McQuivey, Macmillan, Melville House, Michael Cader, Penguin, Random House, Simon & Schuster

Show me the data!

January 16, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 24 Comments

One thing we try to do at Digital Book World is to present our audiences with useful, relevant, and, when we can, original data. It is a familiar complaint in our industry that we drive blind. Part of that is due to the sheer diversity and granularity of the “book business”. And another part is […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: A.T. Kearney, AllRomance.com, Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Amy Henry, Association of Booksellers for Children, Barnes & Noble, Bill Newlin, BISG, BookData, Bookigee, Bookrepublic, BookScan, Bowker, Disney, Forrester Research, Fran Toolan, HarperCollins, IfBookThen, Ira Mayer, Jack McKeown, James McQuivey, Jonathan Nowell, Kelly Gallagher, Kobo, Kristen McLean, Lorraine Shanley, metadata, Nielsen, Oren Teicher, Scholastic, Verso Media, Youth Beat, Youth Market Alerts

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