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The end of the general trade publishing concept

October 19, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

My brilliant friend Joe Esposito has written a piece to explain why Penguin Random House would want to acquire Simon & Schuster.  I have also been thinking about why PRH, or any of the other three of the “Big Five”, would want to acquire S&S. In fact, two of the three, Hachette and HarperCollins, have […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Big Five, Dan Gerstein, Gotham Publishing Solutions, Hachette, HarperCollins, Howtopublishbooks.com, Ingram, IngramSpark, Joe Esposito, John Sargent, Julie Blattberg, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, PRH, Robin Cutler, Simon & Schuster, Tom McCormack

Digital marketing and coping with Amazon are the two big challenges for publishers as we begin 2017

January 3, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I am getting ready to attend my first Digital Book World as a “civilian” (having programmed and moderated the first seven), Thinking about DBW entails recognizing how different the book publishing world today is from what I expected three or six years ago. Be that as it may, the big challenges for the industry — […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, Publishing History, SEO, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Electronic Publishing and Rights", Amazon, Apple, Author Earnings, B&N, Brian Defiore, Codex, Dan Lubart, Data Guy, Ginger Clark, Hugh Howey, iBooks, Ingram, iobyte, John Sargent, Jon Fine, Kindle, Knopf, Kobo, Macmillan, Michael Cader, NetGalley, Nielsen Bookscan, Nook, Peter Hildick-Smith, Peter McCarthy, Porter Anderson, Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster, Susan Ruszala, Ted Hill, Wall Street Journal

The big global publishers are integrating across both territories and languages

August 12, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

Since I posted this two days ago, one of the Big Five CEOs pointed out some things I missed that are important. These are addressed in a post-script at the bottom. Subscribers to the blog would have received the original post without the “correction”. My apologies. The announcement this week that John Sargent has apparently […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Longitude", Amazon, Arnaud Nourry, Bloomsbury, Carolyn Reidy, Chantal Restive-Alessi, Dava Sobel, George Gibson, Hachette, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, John Sargent, Macmillan, Markus Dohle, Nielsen, Nielsen Books & Consumer data service, Penguin Random House, Quarto, Simon & Schuster, Walker Publishing

It is hard for publishers to apply even Harvard B School advice in their struggle with Amazon

July 15, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 109 Comments

Harvard Business Review published an article recently by Benjamin Edelman called “Mastering the Intermediaries” which gives advice to businesses trying to avoid some of the consequences of audience aggregation and control by an intermediary. The article was aimed at restaurants who don’t want their fate controlled by Open Table or travel companies who don’t want […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", Aerbook, Amazon, American Airlines, Apple, Ashley Gordon, B&N, Baker & Taylor, Benjamin Edelman, Big Five, Bluefire, Book.ish, Chris Kubica, Donnelley, Eugene Volokh, Expedia, Fandango, Foodler, Google, Grubhub, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harvard Business Review, Ingram, Jeff Stone, Joe Regal, John Sargent, Kayak, Kindle, Macmillan, MovieTickets, Open Table, Oyster, Penguin Random House, Peter Meyers, PRH, Robert Bork, Scribd, Zola Books

What to watch for in 2013

January 2, 2013 by Jess 33 Comments

Although “digital change in publishing” has a year that lags the calendar year and this year won’t “end” until we have a read on how post-Christmas ebook sales were affected by the new devices consumers got for Christmas, the dropping of the ball in Times Square is the signal most of us respond to when […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Abrams, Angry Robot, Barnes & Noble, Black Dog & Leventhal, Borders, Duncan Baird, F+W Media, Hachette, HarperCollins, Interweave, John Sargent, Kindle Fire, Macmillan, Nook, Open Road, Osprey, Penguin, Perseus, Random House, Reading Rainbow, Rick Joyce, RRKidz, Ruckus, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Storia, Story Town

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