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Declarations and forecasts of Great Change in the book business need specificity to be useful and often do not provide it

March 4, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 14 Comments

A recent post here that incited a long comment string and another on FutureBook that was quite unrelated from the estimable Brian O’Leary have helped me formulate some thinking which I hope can be helpful in evaluating any “Great Change” post that arises about publishing. And they do, indeed, arise often. O’Leary’s post builds on […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "Publishing in the 21st Century" program, "The Bully Pulpit", Brian O'Leary, David Worlock, Doris Kearns Goodwin, FutureBook, Mark Bide

The truth is we do not yet know whether ebooks will work for anything except readerly books

December 4, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 36 Comments

In the 1990s, Mark Bide would always begin the “Publishing in the 21st Century” conferences we ran by reviewing the research we had done around some aspect of digital change in publishing with the admonition that book publishing was “many very different businesses.” By that, Mark meant that trade publishers (who sold primarily through bookstores) […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Vertical Tagged With: "What Technology Wants", Aerbook, Aptara, Books in Browsers, Citia, Dr. David Hessayon, Experts guides, Inkling, Kevin Kelly, Mark Bide, Nate Hoffelder, New York Times, O'Reilly, Pearson, Peter Brantley, Peter Meyers, Publishing in the 21st Century, Random House, Random House UK, Safari

What I was thinking when I said that wild stuff

June 6, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

At our Publishers Launch Conference on the Wednesday of BEA, Michael Cader and I introduced a new feature we think will become regular at our events: a candid 1-on-1 conversation between us. It went well. In fact, it went so well that what reads like a pretty damn accurate verbatim account of much of it […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ed Nawotka, Mark Bide, Michael Cader, Penguin Random House, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Publishers Licensing Society, Publishing Perspectives, VMI

Paying authors more might be the best economics for publishers in the long run

December 12, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 86 Comments

If you imagine the publisher’s business as one that divides most of the consumer’s dollar between two core stakeholders in the supply chain — the retailer and the author — you’d have a pretty accurate picture. The publishers, at least theoretically, decide what the retailer’s “working margin” will be with their discounts and agency agreements. […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, B&N, John Wiley, Mark Bide, Michael Cader

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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