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Amazon as a threat to steal big titles from big publishers is still a ways off

October 23, 2012 by Jess 16 Comments

When Larry Kirshbaum, the longtime head of TimeWarner Publishing (purchased right after he left in 2007 by Hachette and now the company called Hachette Book Group USA) joined Amazon many people thought — I among them — that Amazon was about to become a threat to take big titles away from the major publishers and, […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Politics, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barry Eisler, Blio, Bookish, Copia, Democratic National Convention 1968, George Wallace, Google, Hachette Book Group USA, Joe Konrath, Kobo, KOLL, Larry Kirshbaum, Michael Cader, Penny Marshall, Pierre Salinger, Professor Richard Wade, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, Senator George McGovern, Sony, Southern Strategy, Spiro Agnew, Tim Ferriss, TimeWarner Publishing, Wall Street Journal, Zola eBooks

The expected changes in the book business favor Amazon’s share growth

March 5, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

This post is the second that is contemplating two big questions facing the publishing industry: When will the growth in Amazon’s share of the consumer book business stop? Who will be left standing when it does? Amazon applies pressure and generates angst among publishers from two directions. As they grow to be 30% or more […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Brentano's, Charles Scribner's Sons, Crowell-Collier, Deepak Chopra, Doubleday, Forrester, Jackie Collins, Larry Kirshbaum, Leonard Shatzkin, Macmillan, Scribner Bookstore, Simon & Schuster, Sterling, Tim Ferriss, Time Warner Books

Clever moves all around in the B&N and Amazon chess game

February 8, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

Readers who have been following publishing’s digital transition for two years or more will recall the situation in 2010 when five of publishing’s Big Six switched over from selling their ebooks on wholesale terms, by which the retailer sets the price to the consumer, to agency terms, by which the publisher sets a price that […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders, Daily Finance, Google, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, iBookstore, Indigo, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kobo, Larry Kirshbaum, Melville Hosue, Nook, Random House, Time Business

One takeaway from Digital Book World that is not to be missed

January 30, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

I think just about everybody has fun at Digital Book World, but it is hard to have more fun there than I do. It’s damn near a year of work coming together over a couple of days with dozens of smart speakers making me personally look good for putting them on the program. So they […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: All Romance, Allromanceebooks.com, aNobii, BISAC, Bloomberg Business Week, Carina, DRM, Hachette, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Jeff Stone, Kindle, Kobo, Larry Kirshbaum, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, Nook, Penguin, Random House, Time Warner Book Group

Which flies the coop first? the chicken or the egg?

June 19, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

There are lessons that can be taught or learned in one segment of publishing that can then apply to another. Well over a decade ago, Mark Bide and I were discussing the business model for journals. The way it works is that the university pays the professors a salary and rewards them with promotions and […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Arthur Klebanoff, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Borders, Ereads, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jane Friedman, Kindle, Larry Kirshbaum, Mark Bide, Open Road, Richard Curtis, SparkNotes, Sterling

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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