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The subscription model for ebooks hasn’t emerged yet, but it will

May 6, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 68 Comments

From the beginning of Digital Change Thinking Time, which for me goes back to the mid-1990s, “subscription” has been high on the list of future expectations. That’s natural. The subscription model has emerged as the dominant one for cable TV (although there is still some pay-per-use) and Netflix works that way as well. Lots of […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, B&N, CCC, Cyrus Kharadi, Ed Naworka, Javier Celaya, John Konczal, Kindle, Mondadori, Netflix, Nook, O'Reilly, Publishing Perspectives, Random House, Ricky Cavallero, Safari, Simon Lipskar, Tracey Armstrong, Writer's House

Points of No Return: Making Information Pay for 2010

April 26, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

This is the third year in a row that we’ve put together the Making Information Pay conference for the Book Industry Study Group, in conjunction with Ted Hill of THA Consulting. We’ve repeated the formula we’ve applied for the past two years, doing an industry survey on the conference theme to provide some additional insight. This year’s conference […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Adam Salamone, BISG, Bowker, Bruce Shaw, David Guenette, George Lossius, Gilbane Group, Hachette, Harvard Common Press, Jabin White, John Konczal, Kaplan, Kelly Gallagher, Macmillan, Making Information Pay, Matt Baldacci, Maureen McMahon, Phil Madans, Publishing Technology, SBS Worldwide, Sterling Commerce, Steve Walker, Ted Hill, THA Consulting, Twitter, Wolters Kluwer

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