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Barnes and Noble results and the latest news from Perseus

September 14, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

The most recent Barnes & Noble financial results — which appear to have discouraged Wall Street investors — aren’t good news for the book business. They show that the sale of books through their stores is flat at best, as is the shelf space assigned to books. And it would take a particularly optimistic view […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Avalon, B&N, Barnes & Noble, Basic Books, Bertelsmann, Big Five, BOL, Books Online, Borders, Hachette, Ingram, Jouve, Kindle, Livraria Cultura, Microsoft Reader, Mobi, Nook, Palm Digital, Perseus, Publishing Dimensions, Running Press, Sergio Herz, Walmart

Another wake-up call from Amazon as they serve author interests better than publishers have

July 23, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 51 Comments

The Authors Guild and its allies have recently appealed to the Department of Justice to investigate Amazon’s possible monopoly control of the book business. It is hard to quarrel with the fact that Amazon delivers more of the publishing output to consumers than any single account ever has and that they are, inevitably, changing the […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Authors Guild, DRM, GoodReads, Google, Holtzbrinck, Kindle, Macmillan, Random House, Seth Godin

Asking whether Amazon is friend or foe is a simple question that is complicated to answer

March 15, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 56 Comments

I’ve been invited to join a discussion entitled “Amazon: Friend or Foe” (meaning “for publishers”) sponsored by the Digital Media Group of the Worshipful Company of Stationers (only in England!) and taking place in London next month. I think the answer must be “both”, and I suspect that my discussion-mates — Fionnuala Duggan, formerly of […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: 24Symbols, Aerbook, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Big Five, Bluefire, Bookmate, Coursesmart, De Marque, Digital Media Group, Encyclopedia Britannica, Finitiv, Fionnuala Duggan, Google, Impelsys, Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, London Book Fair, Michael Ross, Nook, Oyster, Page Foundry, Philip Walters, Random House, Scribd, Smashwords, Steve Jobs, Tizra, Waterstone's, Worshipful Company of Stationers

End of a year, and perhaps the end of a stage of the ebook transition

December 31, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

The year ends with a front-page New York Times story reporting the consternation in the indie author community at the current state of their commercial lives at Amazon. The proximate cause of distress is seen to be the Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscription service, through which indie authors are receiving considerably less compensation per read than […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Bob Mayer, Digital Reader, Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, Nate Hoffelder, NY Times

Big publisher bashing again with fictional facts

September 14, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 54 Comments

The estimable Clay Shirky has written a lengthy piece called “Amazon, Publishers, and Readers” on medium.com saying, essentially, that an Amazon-dominated world would be an improvement over the Big Five “cartel”-dominated world of publishing we have today. This is an apples to oranges comparison. The Big Five are not nearly as broad a cartel as […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Apple, Big Five, Clay Shirky, Digital Book World 2015, DRM, Hachette, Kindle, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, Pocket Books, Russ Grandinetti, Steve Coll

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