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Imprint consolidation at big houses is a sign of changed times

October 25, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

I had reason to learn recently that Ingram has 16 million individual titles loaded in their Lightning Source database ready to be delivered as a bound book to you within 24 hours, if not sooner. So every book coming into the world today is competing against 16 million other books that you might buy. That […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "Little Random", Amazon, Atria, Cato Institute, CreateSpace, Crown, Gallery, Ingram Spark, Kindle, Lightning Source, Macmillan, Random House, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Tom McCormack, Touchstone

Anybody Press is the new member of the Big Six (for ebooks, at least)

June 17, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

Bowker reported last week that 12% of the ebooks being bought now are self-published. There was skepticism about the methodology from The Digital Reader and Good e-Reader says Bowker’s data should be taken “with a grain of salt”. But the exact number doesn’t matter; the trend does. The share of the consumer ebook dollar going […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Hangman's Daughter", "Wool", Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bowker, CreateSpace, Good eReader, Hachette, HarperCollins, Houghton Harcourt, Hugh Howey, Lightning Source, Penguin Random House, Peter McCarthy, Simon & Schuster, The Digital Reader

Going where the customers are might be an alternative to selling direct

August 9, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

The news that Faber in the UK has partnered with a company called Firsty Group to offer direct-to-consumer services to their distribution clients again calls the question about publishers selling direct. In my recent post about the likely outcome of the DoJ settlement being accepted by the Court, I said I was re-thinking my admonition […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, F+W Media, Faber, Firsty Group, iBookstore, Ingram, Lightning Source, Open Sky, Phil Ollila, Politico, Politics & Prose, Random House, Zola Books

Eisler’s decision is a key benchmark on the road to wherever it is we’re going

March 21, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 171 Comments

I wasn’t planning to write a post this past weekend for Monday morning publication. But then Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler contacted me on Saturday to tell me what Barry is up to. I’ve read their lengthy conversation about Barry’s decision to turn down a $500,000 contract (apparently for two books) and join Joe (and […]

Filed Under: Authors, Baseball, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Bookmasters, Branch Rickey, Charles Levy, Christian publishing, Constellation, CreateSpace, Google ebooks, iBookstore, Ingram, Jackie Robinson, Joe Konrath, Kindle, Kobo, Lightning Source, Negro Leagues, Nook, Perseus, PubIt, Scott Waxman Literary Agency, Smashwords, Sony

The Future of Books for Publishers and Booksellers

May 7, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

There is a big picture and a long arc within which our day-to-day activities are taking place. The 20th century consumer media were horizontal in their subject matter — that is, very broad — and format-specific. In the States, that means entities like CBS or NBC in television, The New York Times, or Random House. All of these companies provide content across the full range of human subject interests, but they pretty much stick to their formats: broadcast, newspapers, and books, respectively

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, B2B, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Berrett-Koehler, BookSearch, BookSurge, Borders, CBS, Chelsea Green, DAD, DRM, eBooks, Espresso, Google, Hachette, Harlequin, HarperCollins, horizontal, Ingram, iPod, iTunes, Kindle, LibraryThing, LibreDigital, Lightning, Lightning Source, Lingua Franca, metadata, Microsoft, MySpace, NBC, On Demand Books, ONIX, Open Social, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Rodale, SharedBooks, Simon & Schuster, Sony, television, The Long Tail, verticle, Wikipedia, XML

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