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Subscription services for ebooks progress to becoming a real experiment

May 27, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

My long-held conviction that broad-based subscriptions for ebooks were not likely to work is partly based on facts that are now changing. It is still by no means a slam dunk that ebooks must go where Spotify has taken digital music and Netflix has taken the digital distribution of TV and movies, but it looks […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Big Five, Book-of-the-Month Club, Carolyn Reidy, Evan Schnittman, Hachette, HarperCollins, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Macmillan, Netflix, Oyster, Penguin Random House, PRH, S&S, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Spotify

Examining the relationship between start-ups and publishers

November 12, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

We are in another high-funding era for digital start-ups. The book business has always looked ripe for disruption, but never any more so than now. With bookstore shelf space shrinking, ebooks growing in very uneven ways across the types of books that are published, and everything about technology getting cheaper, everything is up for grabs. […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, New Models, Technology Tagged With: 24 Symbols, Aerbook, Amazon.com, Andrew Rhomberg, eReatah, HarperCollins, Harvard Common Press, Ingram, Jellybooks, Kindle, Leslie Hulse, Macmillan, Netflix, Oyster, Perseus, Rick Joyce, Ron Martinez, Scribd, Skoobe, Spotify

Subscription models seem to me to be for ebook niches, not a general offer

July 16, 2012 by Jess 32 Comments

Another fledgling ebook retailing venture came through our office this month touting a subscription proposition. I told the entrepeneur “I’m skeptical of the subscription model for ebooks,” and he said, “I know”. We had a great chat, but I’m still skeptical. When I say that, I mean I’m skeptical that a general offering subscription model […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Angry Robot, Audible, Baen Books, Book-of-the-Month Club, continuity series, Discover a New Love, Disney Digital Books, Dzanc, F+W Media, Harlequin, iTunes, Literary Guild, Netflix, O'Reilly, Osprey, Pearson, Recorded Books, Safari, Sesame Street eBooks, Sourcebooks, Spotify, TED conferences, The Atavist, Time-Life Books

The subscription model for ebooks hasn’t emerged yet, but it will

May 6, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 68 Comments

From the beginning of Digital Change Thinking Time, which for me goes back to the mid-1990s, “subscription” has been high on the list of future expectations. That’s natural. The subscription model has emerged as the dominant one for cable TV (although there is still some pay-per-use) and Netflix works that way as well. Lots of […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, B&N, CCC, Cyrus Kharadi, Ed Naworka, Javier Celaya, John Konczal, Kindle, Mondadori, Netflix, Nook, O'Reilly, Publishing Perspectives, Random House, Ricky Cavallero, Safari, Simon Lipskar, Tracey Armstrong, Writer's House

Looking at the iPad from an ebook reader’s perspective

April 12, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 39 Comments

Here’s a quick review of the iPad. I’ve had it for a few days now and, based on what I know so far, it isn’t going to be a very important part of my life. It has great capabilities, but it has real limitations. The capsule summary is “not as good for straight text ereading […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing Tagged With: Elements, iBook, iPad, Kassia Kroszer, Kindle, Kobo, Netflix, Vook

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