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Book publishing may not remain a stand-alone industry and book retailing will demonstrate that first

January 29, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 17 Comments

You are missing some good fun if you don’t know those AT&T commercials where the grown-up sits around a table with a bunch of really little kids and asks them questions like “what’s better: faster or slower?” There always seems to be an obvious “correct” answer. Those kids could answer some important questions about ebook […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BN .com, Google, Google Play, Jeff Bezos, Kobo, Nexus 7, Rakuten

Things to think about as the digital book revolution gains global steam

August 27, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

The switchover from reading print to reading on screens, with the companion effect that increasingly the purchase of books is done online rather than in stores, is far advanced in the English-speaking world and especially so in the United States. In the past 12 months, the UK has begun to resemble the US market in […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Allromanceebooks.com, Amazon.com, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Google, iPad, Kindle, Kobo, Lubbe, Michael Tamblyn, Microsoft, Nexus 7, Nook, Open Road, RCS Libri

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