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Practical and ethical challenges posed by digital content delivery

April 4, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 25 Comments

The New York Times published two apparently unrelated articles over the weekend which address questions raised by the rise of digital content creation and distribution. One was an op-ed piece in the Saturday paper by author Mark Aronson about the challenge of collecting the permissions necessary to include copyrighted material in enhanced ebooks. On Sunday, the […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild, Copyright Clearance Center, Ereads, Google, Jamie Raab, Joe Esposito, New York Times, Randy Cohen, Richard Aronson, Richard Curtis, Stephen King, The Ethicist

Notes from a lecture by Professor Cader

February 13, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 82 Comments

Michael Cader did a brilliant analysis of Thursday’s New York Times piece on ebook pricing, published exclusively for paid subscribers to Publishers Lunch. The Times piece’s shortcoming was that it tended to sensationalize the news that the prices the public will pay for current brand-name ebooks will be going up. If you observe the book […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Farrar Straus, Goldman Sachs, Holt, Kobo, Macmillan, Michael Cader, New York Times, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Marketplace, Simon & Schuster, Sony, St. Martin's Press, Verso Media

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

Beast Books: a sign of times to come

September 29, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 18 Comments

The story in today’s New York Times about the new Daily Beast publishing imprint created by Perseus obviously didn’t hit everybody else the way it hit me. I think it is really important news. It is also a smart approach. And I think it is a harbinger of many things to come. The two things that […]

Filed Under: Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Daily Beast, David Steinberger, Michael Cader, New York Times, Perseus Books, Tina Brown

Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change

September 21, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 14 Comments

Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change Every time I read a story about why newspapers are failing that doesn’t mention the role of aggregation and curation in their troubles, it reminds me that something very fundamental is being missed, even by very sophisticated observers. Aggregation is one of the […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ingram, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Times

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