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Big publishers have reason to be happy about how the book market is evolving

June 21, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

Big publishers have to be very happy about how things have been developing in the ebook world over the last six months or so. In that time, we have gone from a situation in which Kindle appeared to so totally dominate digital reading that Kindle-only publishing seemed an imminent threat to disintermediate publishers to one […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Adobe Digital Editions, Amazon, Android, B&N, Blackberry, Blio, Borders, Calibre, Copia, DRM, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, Kirk Biglione, Kobo, Nook, Sony Reader

Introducing E2BU, indispensible for anybody investing in ebook enhancement

June 16, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

Last winter, before the announcement of the Agency model as the path to ebook price maintenance, some major publishers had acknowledged out loud that enhancing ebooks in various ways would be the way to keep the public paying print book prices for content. That got me thinking. First I thought about the CD-Rom debacle of […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, Enhanced ebook university, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing Tagged With: Aptara, Copia, E2BU, E2BU Resource Directory, F+W Media, HarperCollins, How to Cook Everything, Jess Johns, Jessica Goodman, John Wiley & Sons, Kirk Biglione, Missing Manuals, O'Reilly Media, Oxford Media Works, Peter Kaufman, Peter Meyers, The Elements, Theodore Gray, Touch Press

What does a consultant do at the London Book Fair?

April 16, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

I spent a chunk of yesterday working on this post while, with one eye, I was watching the news about the volcanic eruption in Iceland that shut UK air traffic. As I post this on Friday morning with a flight scheduled to leave tomorrow night near midnight, I’d guess the chances of actually getting there […]

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