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Words-to-be-read are losing ground to words-to-be-heard, a new stage of digital content evolution

June 14, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

“Words-to-be-read” must now become a content category, along with still images, video, and audio. Audio includes “words-to-be-heard”. We are in what must be the early stages of a reordering of primacy among these varieties of “content for delivery and consumption”, which is distinguished from “content for interaction”, or the world of “gamified content” along with […]

Filed Under: Authors, Licensing and Rights, New Models, rights Tagged With: "The 5 Second Rule", Amazon, Audible, Don Katz, John Scalzi, Mel Robbins, New York Times, The New Yorker, words-to-be-heard, words-to-be-read

The wild weekend of Amazon and Macmillan

January 31, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 43 Comments

Now I swear all this is true. As everybody knows, a very serious food fight broke out between Amazon and Macmillan late Friday night. All weekend Michael Cader led the way in ferreting out additional useful information and I spent most of today (Sunday) trying to write an analytical blogpost. I got it just about […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Brad Stone, Bran Hambric, Charles Stross, Content, Content Reserve, David Wilk, Going Rogue, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Ingram, John Sargent, John Scalzi, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Sourcebooks, True Compass, VentureBeat

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