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It’s hard to figure out pricing for ebooks from anecdotal evidence

April 25, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 49 Comments

The Wall Street Journal wrote last week about what we have been concerned about for some time: how hard it will be for publishers to sustain book prices as supply (of books) rises faster than demand because of all the self-publishing being done. WSJ built their story around John Locke, whose thrillers are 99 cents […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Fall of Giants, John Locke, Ken Follett, Kindle, Kobo, Penguin, Wall Street Journal

Opportunity doesn’t knock, it pounds!

February 5, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

In a recent post, I contemplated the developing ebook markets around the world, and particularly in Europe, and observed that ten years or more of digitization efforts in the English-speaking world would have a sizeable impact on the ebook markets in other language countries. When I wrote about this earlier, it was to enumerate the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models Tagged With: Borders, Fall of Giants, IfBookThen Conference, Ken Follett

How will you win at ebook retailing?

December 15, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 19 Comments

I read all my books on my iPhone and my idiosyncracy is to have different books open in various ebook readers at the same time. This is a drastic change from my lifetime habit of reading one book at a time. I never knew I’d enjoy reading this way because the physical limitations of carrying […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive by John Nordell, "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey A. Moore, "Joe Cronin" by Mark Armour, "The Autobiography of Mark Twain", "Washington" by Ron Chernow, Copia, Diesel Ebooks, Google Books, IBIS Reader, iBooks, iPad, iPhone, Ken Follett, Kindle, Kobo, Liza Daly, Nook reader, Palm, Stieg Larsson

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