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Are free ebooks a good idea or not?

January 24, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 47 Comments

Kindle is certainly engendering a lot of confusion by billboarding the downloads of free ebooks as “sales.” That paradoxical scorekeeping was the lead for an article by Motoko Rich in The New York Times on Saturday that quoted a lot of people, some apparently disagreeing with each other, but none of them necessarily wrong. There […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Free", Amazon, Brian O'Leary, Chris Anderson, David Young, DRM, Hachette, Harper Collins, HarperStudio blog, Hyperion, Kindle, Kobo, Len Shatzkin, Magellan Media, Michael Tamblyn, Mindy Stockfield, Motoko Rich, New York Times, Penguin, Random House, Steve Ross, Tim McCall, USA Today

An ebook experiment stirs up conversation

July 17, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

The Wall Street Journal was the first to announce, on Monday, (behind a pay wall, but Google “Publisher Delays E-book Amid Debate On Pricing” and you’ll get it) that Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah was holding back the ebook publication of a new hardcover YA novel, Bran Hambric, scheduled for release this September. Raccah’s explanation to the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Add new tag, Amazon, Brad Stone, Bran Hambric, Dan Brown, Dominique Raccah, Doubleday, Ereads, Kaleb Nation, Kassia Krozser, Kindle, Michael Cader, Motoko Rich, New York Times, Peter Brantley, Richard Curtis, Robert Gottlieb, Sourcebooks, Stephen King, Ted Kennedy, Wall Street Journal

Another thought about how deals might change in the ebook value chain

May 20, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

There has been a lot of discussion about ebook pricing lately. I did a post following Motoko Rich writing about this in the Times, but Rich’s post itself was a sign of the discussion taking place, not the catalyst for it. Today in Publishers Lunch, Michael Cader runs through some calculations to demonstrate that when […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing Tagged With: Michael Cader, Motoko Rich, royalties

Fleshing out The Times’s ebook story of May 17

May 17, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

I love and value The New York Times. But I have to admit that every time they write about something I know a lot about, it makes me wonder whether they’re complete and accurate when they write about the things I don’t know a lot about. There’s nothing wildly inaccurate in Motoko Rich’s “Week in Review” […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Blackberry, Borders, Brian Murray, eReader, Fictionwise, Google Android, iPhone, Kindle, Motoko Rich, New York Times, Scrollmotion, Stanza

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