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Subscription services for ebooks progress to becoming a real experiment

May 27, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

My long-held conviction that broad-based subscriptions for ebooks were not likely to work is partly based on facts that are now changing. It is still by no means a slam dunk that ebooks must go where Spotify has taken digital music and Netflix has taken the digital distribution of TV and movies, but it looks […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Big Five, Book-of-the-Month Club, Carolyn Reidy, Evan Schnittman, Hachette, HarperCollins, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Macmillan, Netflix, Oyster, Penguin Random House, PRH, S&S, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Spotify

Nine places to look in 2014 to predict the future of publishing

January 1, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

The digital transition of the trade book publishing business, which I would date from the opening of Amazon.com in 1995, enters its 20th year in 2014. Here are some of the ponderables as we close out the first two decades of a process of very rapid change that is far from over. 1. What’s going […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Big One, Big Six, Curtis Brown, Derek Jeter, Diversion, E-Reads, Entitle, eReatah, Following Four, Hugh Howey, iPad, John Locke, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Matchbook, O'Reilly, Oyster, Pearson, Penguin Random House, PRH, Rosetta, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Writer's House

Three points worth adding to the excellent account of the Amazon story in The Everything Store

November 4, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

The publication of Brad Stone’s book about Amazon, “The Everything Store”, is the catalyst for a lot of new discussion about the topic most difficult for the book business to discuss. It is pretty much impossible to be in the book business without benefiting from Amazon’s market reach. But it is also pretty standard fare […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", Amazon, Amazon Prime, Barnes & Noble, Brad Stone, Digital Book World, dot lit, I2S2, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, Jeremy Greenfield, John Ingram, Kindle, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Matchbook, Mobipocket, Palm Digital Microsoft, Peter Olson, Random House

Explaining my skepticism about the likelihood of success for a general subscription model for ebooks

July 22, 2012 by Admin 4 Comments

In a prior post, I observed that the apparently-successful subscription offerings for books were in niches. And I said I believed that a more general subscription model wouldn’t work for ebooks the way it has seemed to work for music (Spotify), movies and TV shows (Netflix), and audiobooks (Audible). By that I meant two things. […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Audible, Bloomsbury, Books24x7, F+W Media, Grove/Atlantic, Kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Leonard Shatzkin, Lonely Planet, Neteflix, Norton, Rosetta Books, Scholastic, Simon Lipskar, Spotify, Workman/Algonquin, Writer's House

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