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Searching for the formula to deliver illustrated books as ebooks

November 13, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 72 Comments

I want to make clear at the outset that this post is not about “enhanced ebooks”, making something multiple-media out of a book that started as straight text. That’s a “want to do” problem that I’ve always been skeptical about and which I believe many, if not most, publishers are abandoning as “not commercially viable at […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Callaway Digital Media, Digital Book World, Kobo Vox, Michael Tamblyn, Nook Color, The Elements

Four years into the ebook revolution: things we know and things we don’t know

September 25, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 73 Comments

One could say (and I would) that the ereading revolution is coming up to its 4th anniversary since it was late November 2007 when Amazon first released the Kindle. There had been dedicated ereading devices before then, including the Sony Reader — in the market when Kindle arrived and still here, if not wildly successful […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Borders, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Nook Color, Palm Pilot, Rocket Book, Softbook, Sony Bookman, Sony Reader, Waterstone's

Are illustrated books getting ready for their close-up? (Pinch and spread…)

July 10, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

Last year at this time, the people I know in the consumer electronics world were saying that Christmas 2010 would be the season of the ereader. That proved to be correct, resulting in both a sharp surge in ebook sales in early 2011 and, according to Pew data, a continued acceleration of ereader adoption in […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models Tagged With: FutureBook, iPad, Kindle, Nook Color, Pew

Conceiving issues that will gestate in the next nine months; planning for 2012 Digital Book World

April 19, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 48 Comments

The fact that Publishers Launch Conferences will stage half-a-dozen or more events before our next big multi-day Digital Book World blowout next January doesn’t change the DBW calendar. Now is the time of year when we have to start thinking about what the big issues will be at the turn of the year so we […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, rights, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, BIC, BISG, Hachette, Ingram, iPad, James Long, James Patterson, John Locke, Kindle, London Book Fair, Making Information Pay, Nook Color, O'Reilly, Orbit, Pan Macmillan, Rick Richter, Ruckus Media, Safari, Sara Lloyd, Tara Catogge

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