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Amazon channels Orwell in its latest blast

August 9, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 243 Comments

Anybody who reads Amazon’s latest volley in the Amazon-Hachette war and then David Streitfeld’s takedown of it on the New York Times’s web site will know that Amazon — either deliberately or with striking ignorance — distorted a George Orwell quote to make it appear that he was against low-priced paperbacks when he was actually […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 1984, Amazon, Anchor Books, Ballantine, Brentano's, David Streitfeld, Doubleday, Douglas Preston, Espresso Book Machine, Fawcett, George Orwell, Hachette, Jason Epstein, Jeff Bezos, Leonard Shazkin, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Pietsch, NY Review of Books, Penguin, Philip Van Doren Stern, Random House, Sid Gross Doubleday Bookshops, Viking

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

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