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“The Family Business” is Ingram: the global infrastructure for the book industry

April 19, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The global infrastructure for the book business that is not Amazon is owned and operated by the Ingram Content Group. In fact, a lot of the global infrastructure of the book business that is identified as Amazon is actually Ingram. And on top of that, there would probably have been no Amazon, certainly not the […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Behemoth: Amazon Rising" by Robin Gaster, "Book Wars" by John B. Thompson, "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know" by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger, Bronson Ingram, Bruce Harris, Coresource, HarperCollins, Harry Hoffman, Ingram Content Group, Ingram Spark, Jack Stambaugh, John Ingram, Karl Weber, Keel Hunt, Lightning Print, Michael Zibart, Penguin Random House, Tennessee Book Company, Tennessee School Book Depository, Vanderbilt business school

The supply chain for book publishing is being changed by Coronavirus too

April 19, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

One thing the pandemic has done is to make everybody more aware of “supply chains”: the path by which a thing gets made and delivered to its ultimate user. Many of us heard many times that a ventilator is constructed of 150 parts that come from all over the world, hinting at the massive logistical […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: "Kitchen Confidential", Anthony Bourdain, carbon dividends, Coronavirus, Ingram Content Companies, John Ingram, Lightning Print, Sarah Palin, Sarasota Institute

Two pretty easy ways to add revenue that most publishers are missing

February 18, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The biggest publishers today are regularly delivering improved profit performance on a flat or declining sales base. This masks a troubling truth about today’s book business. The core asset base of a book publisher is “performing titles”: the books that are delivering measurable revenues. The more of them there are the healthier the business is. […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, rights, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: books on Kobe Bryant, Free money for publlshers, Ignition, Ingram, Jane Friedman, John Ingram, Lightning, Open Road, Print-On-Demand

We’ll see how what I actually learn compares to what I expect to find out

January 19, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Australia and New Zealand have always been the far outposts of the English-speaking territories for book publishers based in New York and London. But the logistics and economics of managing inventory are very difficult. These countries are across long seas from where US and UK publishers normally warehouse their books. Whatever copies are shipped to […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, rights, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Australia, Ingram, John Ingram, Lightning Print, Lightning Source, Melbourne, New Zealand

News this week that demonstrates how timely Digital Book World programming can be…and a thought about Amazon bookstores

February 4, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 25 Comments

There are some days that the news I see just makes me feel so good about the programming we’re doing for this year’s Digital Book World. One of those days was earlier this week when the news pointed directly to three items on our program. As I wrote in the last post, we have an entire […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, rights, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: "Put Me in the Story", "This Is Your Cookbook", Abbott Communications, Barnes & Noble, Charlotte Abbott, DeSilva + Phillips, Dominique Raccah, Fred Argir, Harvard Common Press, Ingram Content Group, Joanna Stone Herman, John Ingram, Katherine McCahill, Ken Fund, Marcus Leaver, Mary Ann Naples, NetGalley, Penguin Random House, Quarto, QuartoKnows, Rodale, Sourcebooks, South by Southwest, Susan Ruszala, SXSW, Wall Street Journal

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