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If Amazon pricing of ebooks is the problem, is agency actually the right solution?

February 26, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 17 Comments

In the past week, I’ve had conversations with leading executives at two of Amazon’s competitors in the ebook space. They had strikingly different takes on whether the agency pricing regime, which is now in place by contract with all five of the biggest trade publishers, helps keep competitive balance in the ebook marketplace or prevents […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Big Five, Borders, Google, iBookstore, Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, Nook, Oyster, Penguin Random House, Scribd

Now Kings of ebook subscription, what will impede the ebook share growth for Amazon?

February 17, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

With the news this morning that Scribd has thrown in the towel on unlimited ebook subscriptions, Amazon is the last player standing with an “all-you-can-eat” ebook subscription offer for a general audience. The juxtaposition of the publishers’ insistence on being paid full price for ebooks being lent once and the late Oyster’s and the now thrice-hobbled […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Department of Justice, Digital Book World, Digital Reader, Google, iBooks, Jonathan Kanter, Judge Cote, Kensington, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, Nate Hoffelder, Nook, Oyster, Pete McCarthy, Publishers Lunch, Scribd, Steve Zacharius

Can crowd-sourced retailing give Amazon a run for its money?

December 16, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

Although it has always seemed sensible for publishers to sell their books (and then ebooks) directly to end users, it has never looked to me like that could be a very big business. In the online environment, your favorite “store” — the one you’re loyal to and perhaps even have an investment in patronizing (which […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Aer.io, Aerbook, Amazon, American West, Barnes & Noble, Bertelsmann, BN .com, Bookish, Books Online, Borders, Google, Hachette, Hummingbird, I2S2, Ingram, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Penguin, Random House, Ron Martinez, Simon & Schuster, The Book Depository, Zola Books

Barnes and Noble results and the latest news from Perseus

September 14, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

The most recent Barnes & Noble financial results — which appear to have discouraged Wall Street investors — aren’t good news for the book business. They show that the sale of books through their stores is flat at best, as is the shelf space assigned to books. And it would take a particularly optimistic view […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Avalon, B&N, Barnes & Noble, Basic Books, Bertelsmann, Big Five, BOL, Books Online, Borders, Hachette, Ingram, Jouve, Kindle, Livraria Cultura, Microsoft Reader, Mobi, Nook, Palm Digital, Perseus, Publishing Dimensions, Running Press, Sergio Herz, Walmart

Two pieces of news last week that foretell changes in the ebook marketplace

August 24, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

Two pieces of news this past week and how things play out with them might foretell some things about the direction of the ebook market. One news item is that reading on phones is really taking off.  More than half of ebook consumers use their phones at least some of the time and the number that […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Android, Apple, Apple iBooks, Atria, Baen, Carina, DRM, DRM-free, German ebook market, Google, Google Play, Harlequin, Holtzbrinck, iBooks, interstitial reading, iPhone, James Patterson, Joe Esposito, Judith Curr, Kobo, Molly Barton, Nook, O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media, Palm Pilot, Random House, S&S, Serial Box, Tim O'Reilly, Tom Doherty, Tor

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