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Amazon’s news of hiring Kirshbaum is a helluva start for BEA

May 23, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 19 Comments

Amazon dropped a shoe last week when they announced their new mystery imprint, Thomas & Mercer Books, and started signing authors, including self-publishing evangelist, Joe Konrath. Last night they dropped the other shoe, which turned out to be a very heavy boot. They signed former Time Warner Publishing (the company that is now Hachette Book […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookish, Hachette Book Group, Joe Konrath, Larry Kirshbaum, Macmillan, Sterling, Thomas & Mercer, Time Warner Publishing

The tipping has really already started

January 6, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

The idea of an “Ebook Tipping Point” panel for Digital Book World arose when I wrote a blogpost last August https://idealog.com/blog/ebook-growth-explosive-serious-disruptions-around-the-corner on the occasion of the regular monthly release of the IDPF’s ebook sales figures. It was clear then that very substantial percentages of the sale of new narrative fiction and non-fiction were going to […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: David Young, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, F+W Media, Ken Brooks, Larry Kirshbaum, Michael Cader, Simon & Schuster

A coming new obsession: how to handle a smaller print-book business

October 24, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 61 Comments

Here’s a prediction that has almost no chance of being wrong. Every major player in the trade book industry is about to develop a new obsession: how must our business model change when we reach a level of ebook sales that is dynamically disruptive to the print book ecosystem? This might not be exactly a […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, DRM, Evan Schnittman, IDPF, Ken Brooks, Kindle, Larry Kirshbaum, Michael Cader, Michael Pietsch, Nook

Talking to the agents, and introducing Filedby

March 19, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

I was flattered to be asked to speak to the AAR last night as part of a very distinguished group. My fellow panelists were John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan; Morgan Entrekin, the CEO of Atlantic Monthly Press; the agent Larry Kirshbaum, who was CEO of TimeWarner’s book division (now Hachette Book Group);  and Susan Katz, the […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: AAR, Filedby, John Sargent, Larry Kirshbaum, Morgan Entrekin, Susan Katz

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