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No, the Big Five are not a cartel and it really ignores reality to label them as one

January 29, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 150 Comments

One of the best-attended breakout sessions of Digital Book World 2015 was the discussion called “Should Amazon Be Constrained, and Can they Be?” which shared the very last slot on the two day program. That conversation was moderated by veteran New Yorker journalist Ken Auletta, and included Annie Lowrey of New York Magazine, thriller author […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Annie Lowrey, Atria, Barry Eisler, Barry Lynn, Big Five publishers, Bookbub, Brian Murray, HarperCollins, Hugh Howey, Joe Konrath, Judith Curr, Ken Auletta, Logical Marketing, New American Foundation, New York Magazine, New Yorker

The motivation of the publisher-bashing commentariat is what I cannot figure out

September 29, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 318 Comments

Once again this morning we wake up to a piece by David Streitfeld in The New York Times about Authors United and their ongoing effort to discredit Amazon. The message coming loud and clear from the legacy publishing establishment is that Amazon doesn’t appreciate, and perhaps doesn’t understand, the value that agents, publishers, and chain and […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing Tagged With: "Wool", 24Symbols, Amazon, AuthorEarnings, Authors United, Barry Eisler, Bookbub, Chuck Wendig, David Streitfeld, e Unlimited, Hachette, Hugh Howey, Joe Konrath, Jonathan Nowell, Josh Schanker, Judge Cote, Judith Curr, Ken Auletta, Kindl, KOLL, Lee Child, Matthew Greenfield, Michael Cader, New York Times, Oyster, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd, Walter Isaacson

When an author should self-publish and how that might change

April 17, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

There is a question that every agent and publisher is dealing with, because authors surely are. And that’s this: when should an author self- (or indie-) publish? The answer is certainly not “never”, and if there is anybody left in a publishing house who thinks it is, they should think a little harder. For a […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Arthur Klebanoff, Curtis Brown, Diversion, Ereads, Joe Konrath, Open Road, Richard Curtis, Rosetta Books, Trident, Waxman-Leavell Agency, Writer's House

Business models are changing; trial and error will ensue

December 3, 2012 by Jess 29 Comments

The announcement late last week that Random House is starting three digital-first imprints was just the most recent example showing that publishers are exploring new business models. Just days earlier we got news of the partnership between Simon & Schuster and Author Solutions making S&S the third major publisher — preceded by Christian publishing titan Thomas Nelson […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "Fifty Shades of Gray", "The Amazon Economy", Amanda Hocking, Amazon, Authonomy, Author Solutions, Book Country, Carolyn Pittis, Dan Blank, David Wilk, Financial Times, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Ingram, Jane Friedman, Jason Allen Ashlock, Joe Konrath, John Locke, Kate Stark, M.J. Rose, Macmillan, Matt Baldacci, Meryl Moss, Open Road, Pearson, Penguin, Perseus, Porter Anderson, Rachel Chou, Random House, Rick Joyce, Simon & Schuster, Susan Meyers, Thomas Nelson

Amazon as a threat to steal big titles from big publishers is still a ways off

October 23, 2012 by Jess 16 Comments

When Larry Kirshbaum, the longtime head of TimeWarner Publishing (purchased right after he left in 2007 by Hachette and now the company called Hachette Book Group USA) joined Amazon many people thought — I among them — that Amazon was about to become a threat to take big titles away from the major publishers and, […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Politics, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barry Eisler, Blio, Bookish, Copia, Democratic National Convention 1968, George Wallace, Google, Hachette Book Group USA, Joe Konrath, Kobo, KOLL, Larry Kirshbaum, Michael Cader, Penny Marshall, Pierre Salinger, Professor Richard Wade, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, Senator George McGovern, Sony, Southern Strategy, Spiro Agnew, Tim Ferriss, TimeWarner Publishing, Wall Street Journal, Zola eBooks

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