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Looking at the iPad from an ebook reader’s perspective

April 12, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 39 Comments

Here’s a quick review of the iPad. I’ve had it for a few days now and, based on what I know so far, it isn’t going to be a very important part of my life. It has great capabilities, but it has real limitations. The capsule summary is “not as good for straight text ereading […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing Tagged With: Elements, iBook, iPad, Kassia Kroszer, Kindle, Kobo, Netflix, Vook

Holding back the ebook

September 30, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

The tactic of keeping the ebook off the market to “protect” hardcover sales, first executed by Sourcebooks this month on behalf of Bran Hambric, is becoming more widespread. At the same time that Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol was released simultaneously in cloth and digital, Ted Kennedy’s posthumous True Compass was released in print with the ebook withheld. […]

Filed Under: Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Bran Hambric, Dan Brown, Ellora's Cave, Kassia Kroszer, Kindle, Lost Symbol, Raelene Gorlinsky, Sourcebooks, Ted Kennedy, True Compass

Is the ebook and POD combo a viable publishing strategy yet?

September 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

There’s a new publishing model afoot, which is to lead with the ebook and just print what you need. That might be POD, and it might be press runs, if you can sell out whole press runs. If the ebook becomes a substantial chunk of sales and if ebooks maintain their prices, this looks like […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ellora's Cave, Eoin Purcell, Google, Harlequin, Kassia Kroszer, Kindle, PublishersMarketplace, Quartet, Richard Nash, Tor.com

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