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Amazon’s growth and its lengthening shadow

April 30, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 74 Comments

The DoJ lawsuit and settlement, Amazon’s next giant step of growth in sales,  the Business Week article on Amazon pushing publishers to allow them to print slow-movers on demand, and then this morning’s New York Times story about a book driven down to a price of zero on Amazon (presumably by an algorithm), combine to […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barry Eisler, Business Week, DOJ, Joe Konrath

True “do-it-yourself” publishing success stories will probably become rare

November 6, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 145 Comments

Getting ready for our eBooks for Everyone Else conferences, I discovered an author named Bob Mayer who impressed me with his self-publishing zeal and apparent success. Bob has written lots of military fiction, science fiction, even a romance novel, and some non-fiction: dozens of books over the years for major publishers. Most of it was […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amanada Hocking, Amazon, Barry Eisler, Bob Mayer, Bookmasters, Deidre Knight, Diversion Books, Ereads, Google, Joe Konrath, John Locke, KDP, Kindle, Kobo, Laura Rennert, Nook, Open Road, Publishers Lunch, Rosetta, Scott Waxman, Smashwords, Sony

Would million ebook-selling author John Locke be better off with a publisher? I think he very well might…

June 26, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 120 Comments

The experience of the most successful self-published author I know of, just described in his newest book, makes a powerful but unintended case that authors who want to really make money are still better off with a publisher. I discovered the author John Locke a few months ago when I was learning a bit about […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Self-Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: "How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in Five Months", Barry Eisler, Carl Hiaasen, Jim Thompson, Joe Konrath, John Locke

Amazon’s news of hiring Kirshbaum is a helluva start for BEA

May 23, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 19 Comments

Amazon dropped a shoe last week when they announced their new mystery imprint, Thomas & Mercer Books, and started signing authors, including self-publishing evangelist, Joe Konrath. Last night they dropped the other shoe, which turned out to be a very heavy boot. They signed former Time Warner Publishing (the company that is now Hachette Book […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookish, Hachette Book Group, Joe Konrath, Larry Kirshbaum, Macmillan, Sterling, Thomas & Mercer, Time Warner Publishing

Do ebook consumers love bestsellers, or does it just look that way?

March 28, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 61 Comments

In theory, the more books are sold online the more sales should move to the long tail. Online bookstores have the advantage of “unlimited shelf space”. Nothing has to be left out of the assortment because of constraints on capital to stock inventory or room to hold it. Furthermore, as Konrath and Eisler pointed out […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Bowker, Google, iBookstore, Joe Konrath, John Locke, Kindle, Kobo, metadata, Nook

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