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This is a teamwork play that could really give Amazon a headache if they got together

August 19, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

I will admit that I have long been among those who believe that Amazon has what amounts to an enduring stranglehold on the book business. They have achieved a market share — which could be in the neighborhood of half the trade books sold if you combine print and digital versions — that is unprecedented […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Borders, David Streitfeld, George Orwell, Google, Google Shopping Express, Hugh Howey, Ingram, Jake Kerr, Kindle, Microsoft, Nook, Suw Charman-Anderson

Unbundling in the book business: the fourth big trend

May 13, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

A few weeks ago, I wrote that there are three big forces driving the future of publishing: scale, verticalization, and atomization. I was wrong. I had forgotten my own blogpost from last September when I identified another trend that belongs with the first three: “unbundling”. The book business, in the trade segment I follow most […]

Filed Under: Atomization, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Vertical Tagged With: "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking", "The Shift Decade", "Wool", Aerbook, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BiblioCrunch, Bruce Harris, CreateSpace, David Houle, Evolution Shift, Hachette, Harmony Books, Hugh Howey, InDesign, Ingram Publisher Services, Ken Michaels, Kobo, Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, NetMinds, Nolan Bushnell, Penguin, Random House, Random House UK, Ron Martinez, Simon & Schuster, Smashwords, Sourcebooks, The Shift Age, Word

“Scale” is a theme everybody in publishing needs to be thinking about, so we’ve made it the focus of our next Publishers Launch Conference

May 8, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

The overarching theme of our upcoming Publishers Launch Conference at BookExpo America on May 29 is “scale”. I thank my PLC partner, Michael Cader, for urging that we label that as a core concern worthy of being the centerpiece for a day’s discussion. (With that nudge, I identified “scale”, along with “verticalization” and “atomization”, as […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale Tagged With: Abrams, Adam Silverman, Aerbook, Alison Uncles, Amazon, Andrea Fleck-Nisbet, Apple, Ben Evans, BookExpo America, Brian Defiore, Brian Napack, Carolyn Pittis, Chicago Tribune, Crown Illustrated, Dan Lubart, David Nussbaum, David Wilk, Defiore and Company, Dorling Kindersley, Doug Stambaugh, Enders Analysis, F+W Media, Facebook, Folio Literary Management, Frederator Books, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Inkling, Iobyte Solutions, Jeff Abraham, Jennifer Day, John Wiley, Joseph Craven, Ken Michaels, Lauren Shakely, Lindy Humphreys, Lorraine Shanley, Macmillan, Market Partners International, Mary Ann Naples, Michael Cader, Microsoft, Penguin, Pete McCarthy, Peter Balis, Providence Equity Partners, Quarto Group, Random House, Robert Gottlieb, Rodale, Ron Martinez, Scott Hoffman, Simon & Schuster, Steve Kobrin, Tim Greco, Toronto Star/Star Dispatches, Trident Media Group, Wharton Digital Press, Workman

More thoughts about the future of bookstores, triggered by Barnes & Noble’s own predictions for itself

January 31, 2013 by Jess 55 Comments

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal published a story by Jeffrey Trachtenberg quoting Barnes & Noble’s retail group CEO Mitch Klipper on the company’s plans for shrinking its store footprint over the next decade. Klipper suggested only a gentle acceleration of what has been the pace of contraction for the past couple of years far […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: B&N, Indigo, Jeff Trachtenberg, Michael Cader, Microsoft, Mitch Klipper, NOOK Media, Pearson, Philip Jones, Random House, The Bookseller, Wall Street Journal

Seven-and-a-half days of conference programming coming up during 4 days in January

December 13, 2012 by Jess 2 Comments

Blog posts have been scarcer for the past couple of months because I’ve been so engaged with a major responsibility: putting together what amounts to 7-1/2 days of conference programming that will be presented on four days next month in New York City. As most readers of this blog probably know, we’re responsible for the […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Politics, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: "Authors Launch", "Children's Publishing Goes Digital", "Wimpy Kid", "Wool", Abrams, Amazon Kindle, Apex, Apple, Ashleigh Gardner, Barbara Marcus, Barnes & Noble, Ben Evans, Bill Kasdorf, Bill McCoy, Black Dog & Leventhal, Bowker, Brain Hive, Brendan Cahill, Brendan Dineen, Brian Defiore, Brian Napack, Candlewick, Capstone, Carnegie-Mellon, Chantal Restivo-Alessi, Chris Bauerle, Citia, Codex, Creative Conduit, Dan Blank, David Houle, David Nussbaum, David Wilk, Disney, Dystel & Goderich, Enders Analysis, Evan Ratliff, F+W Media, Facebook, Gary Gentel, Gary Price, GoodReads, Google, Green Mountain Digital, Hachette, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hugh Howey, IDPF, INFODocket, Inkling, Jane Dystel, Jason Allen Ashlock, Jay Mandel, Jennifer Weltz, Joe Mangan, John Donatich, Johns Hopkins University Press, JP Leventhal, Karen Lotz, Kate Stark, Kate Wilson, Kobo, Kristin Nelson, Linda Holliday, Lorraine Shanley, Macmillan, Magic Town, Marcus Leaver, Market Partners, Matt Baldacci, Matt MacInnis, Matt Schwartz, Michael Cader, Michael D. Smith, Michael Jacobs, Microsoft, MJ Rose, Nathan Maharaj, Neal Goff, Nook, Nosy Crow, Open Road, Osprey, Patricia Arancibia, Patricia Payton, Patrick Brown, Pearson, Penguin, Perseus, Pete Harris, Pete McCarthy, Peter Hildick-Smith, Poptropica, Porter Anderson, Quarto, Rachel Chou, Random House, Randy Susan Meyers, Reading Rainbow, Rebecca Smart, Rick Joyce, Robert Oeste, RRKidz, Scholastic, Simon Lipskar, Sourcebooks, Stephanie Bowen, Steve Axelrod, Storia, Swanna McNair, Ted Hill, Teddy Goff, The Atavist, The Naggar Agency, Tina Pohlman, Todd McGarity, William Morris Endeavor, Writer's House, Yale University Press

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