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Now Kings of ebook subscription, what will impede the ebook share growth for Amazon?

February 17, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

With the news this morning that Scribd has thrown in the towel on unlimited ebook subscriptions, Amazon is the last player standing with an “all-you-can-eat” ebook subscription offer for a general audience. The juxtaposition of the publishers’ insistence on being paid full price for ebooks being lent once and the late Oyster’s and the now thrice-hobbled […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Department of Justice, Digital Book World, Digital Reader, Google, iBooks, Jonathan Kanter, Judge Cote, Kensington, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, Nate Hoffelder, Nook, Oyster, Pete McCarthy, Publishers Lunch, Scribd, Steve Zacharius

End of a year, and perhaps the end of a stage of the ebook transition

December 31, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

The year ends with a front-page New York Times story reporting the consternation in the indie author community at the current state of their commercial lives at Amazon. The proximate cause of distress is seen to be the Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscription service, through which indie authors are receiving considerably less compensation per read than […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Bob Mayer, Digital Reader, Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, Nate Hoffelder, NY Times

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

Rethinking what’s happening with ebook prices

September 13, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

Could I have gotten the DoJ impact on ebook pricing completely wrong? Could the elimination of the Apple-mandated pricing bands actually be such a good thing for publishers that loosening the restraints on discounting won’t actually disrupt the marketplace? The early evidence seems to point that way although we need to emphasize the word “early”. […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Department of Justice, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Nate Hoffelder, Penguin, Random House, Simon & Schuster, The Digital Reader

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