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Doubts about the Department of Justice’s objection to the PRH acquisition of S&S

November 16, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

There are, at this moment, still five US commercial book publishers of mega-size. Penguin Random House is the biggest; HarperCollins is 2nd; and Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster round out the Big Five. PRH is, approximately, as big as the other four combined (about $4 billion in sales) and HarperCollins is, approximately, as big […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Binyamin Appelbaum, Costco, Hachette, HarperCollins, Ingram, Lightning Print, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Print-On-Demand, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Tom McCormack, Walmart

“The Family Business” is Ingram: the global infrastructure for the book industry

April 19, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The global infrastructure for the book business that is not Amazon is owned and operated by the Ingram Content Group. In fact, a lot of the global infrastructure of the book business that is identified as Amazon is actually Ingram. And on top of that, there would probably have been no Amazon, certainly not the […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Behemoth: Amazon Rising" by Robin Gaster, "Book Wars" by John B. Thompson, "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know" by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger, Bronson Ingram, Bruce Harris, Coresource, HarperCollins, Harry Hoffman, Ingram Content Group, Ingram Spark, Jack Stambaugh, John Ingram, Karl Weber, Keel Hunt, Lightning Print, Michael Zibart, Penguin Random House, Tennessee Book Company, Tennessee School Book Depository, Vanderbilt business school

Both the supply chain and book marketing are forever changed by Coronavirus

July 12, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Just before the world changed, about five months ago on February 18th, we wrote in this space about two initiatives that made sense for all publishers to employ to raise revenues and profits. One was Ingram’s Guaranteed Availability Program (GAP), which connects their Lightning print-on-demand capability to their ability to ship within 24 hours, delivering […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Book supply chain, GAP, Grove Atlantic, Guaranteed Availability Program, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ignition, Ingram, Lightning Print, Open Road, Print-On-Demand

The supply chain for book publishing is being changed by Coronavirus too

April 19, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

One thing the pandemic has done is to make everybody more aware of “supply chains”: the path by which a thing gets made and delivered to its ultimate user. Many of us heard many times that a ventilator is constructed of 150 parts that come from all over the world, hinting at the massive logistical […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: "Kitchen Confidential", Anthony Bourdain, carbon dividends, Coronavirus, Ingram Content Companies, John Ingram, Lightning Print, Sarah Palin, Sarasota Institute

2020: Zero year thoughts about the changes in book publishing

January 7, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Years that end in zeroes summon a natural tendency to look backwards and forwards. So as we enter this century’s decade of The 20s, we’ll do just that. The ideas in this piece analyze what is mostly anecdata: “facts” that are real, that I’ve vetted with people who have lived through these times with me, […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know", 2020, Barnes & Noble, Books in Print, Borders, Dalton, decades and centuries and zero years, In Cold Type, Ingram, Leonard Shatzkin, Lightning Print, Lightning Source, Robert Paris Riger, Robert Riger, St. Martin's Press, Thomas McCormack, Walden

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