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Three points worth adding to the excellent account of the Amazon story in The Everything Store

November 4, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

The publication of Brad Stone’s book about Amazon, “The Everything Store”, is the catalyst for a lot of new discussion about the topic most difficult for the book business to discuss. It is pretty much impossible to be in the book business without benefiting from Amazon’s market reach. But it is also pretty standard fare […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", Amazon, Amazon Prime, Barnes & Noble, Brad Stone, Digital Book World, dot lit, I2S2, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, Jeremy Greenfield, John Ingram, Kindle, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Matchbook, Mobipocket, Palm Digital Microsoft, Peter Olson, Random House

Are “enhanced ebooks” the CD-Rom era all over again?

January 12, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

Is this where I came in? In the early 1990s, the computer manufacturers and Microsoft were doing everything they could to persuade businesses and consumers that they really, really, really needed CD-Rom drives. That Microsoft would benefit from them was very clear; the software they were selling was taking more and more diskettes to deliver […]

Filed Under: eBooks, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Amazon, Bob Stein, dot lit, Enhanced ebooks, Kindle, Microsoft, Mobipocket, Palm Digital, PDA, PDF, Simon & Schuster, StarTrek, Voyager Expanded Book, Wiley

Aside from the publishers: how the other stakeholders fare as ebook adoption continues

July 21, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

In three prior posts, we’ve explored the initial conversation that surrounded the announcement that Sourcebooks would delay the ebook release of Bran Hambric; sketched out what we think are the four stages of ebook adoption; and looked at how publishers see the early “establishment” stage, which is where we are now. This post is about the […]

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Publishing and Digital Change: The Implications for the Book Business in Australia

July 17, 2007 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

…even though we’ve seen our business get tougher in many ways, some of the predictions made at the turn of the century for big changes in this decade, such as disruptive ebook takeup, just haven’t come true. The book business has, arguably, been less affected than any of the other major media by digital change. Or maybe I shouldn’t say “arguably.” Maybe I should say “apparently.” And CERTAINLY I should say “so far.”

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