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A benchmark event occurred today

May 17, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

A shoe dropped today. Author J. A. Konrath, who has been self-publishing on Kindle and reporting about it for quite some time, just contracted to have the latest in his series of novels featuring female cop Jack Daniels published by the new Amazon Encore imprint. Encore was originally announced as Amazon’s way to pick up and feature already […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon Encore, Google Unbound, Hyperion, J. A. Konrath, Jack Daniels, Jane Dystel, Kindle, Nook

What will be the big digital issues in January 2011?

May 16, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

I have found a way to describe the difference between the Digital Book World conference we organize for F+W Media and the O’Reilly conference Tools of Change which I believe is accurate and is certainly not intended to be a pejorative description of  Tools of Change. I go to TOC and I find it very valuable, but different […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: App Store, B&N, B&T, Blio, Content Reserve, Copia, Disney, F+W Media, iBooks, Ingram Digital, Ingram Publisher Services, J. A. Konrath, Jane Friedman, Kindle, LibreDigital, NBN, Nook, O'Reilly, Open Road, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Perseus, Pixiq, Poetry Speaks, Safari, Sony, Sterling, Tools of Change

We’ve had “gradually”; get ready for “suddenly”

May 10, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 46 Comments

I don’t think too many future predictors are .300 hitters, and one ground ball I tapped out to shortstop was my hunch that the iPad wouldn’t have an immediate significant impact on ebook sales (although I thought it would be important over time.) According to data and analysis uniquely developed and provided by Michael Cader, published […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: BISG, Blio, Copia, Harlequin, iPad, Kindle, Kobo Reader, Making Information Pay, Michael Cader, Nook, Publishers Marketplace, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Sony Reader

Ebook growth continues to accelerate; how long can this go on?

March 22, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 43 Comments

A busy day today, but time for some very quick and simple math. The IDPF’s figures for January show nearly a 4-fold increase in ebook sales over the prior January. Recent reports suggests that ebook sales are now in the 3%+ range for some big publishers.  But that’s a bit of an understatement of reality because so […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing Tagged With: Apple, Blio, Copia, Google Editions, IDPF, iPad, Kindle, Nook

The ebook windowing controversy has subtext

December 10, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 101 Comments

It took me a couple of days of pondering this to come to my current understanding of it, but I now think that Carolyn Reidy of Simon & Schuster and David Young of Hachette Book Group, since joined by Brian Murray of HarperCollins, are not really fighting a battle to rescue hardcover books from price […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Brian Murray, Carolyn Reidy, David Young, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Kindle, Nook, Random House, Scrollmotion, Simon & Schuster, Wall Street Journal

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