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The digital future still is a mystery if you don’t publish “immersive reading”

January 4, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

I have made previous mention of my notion that what has been one very cohesive trade book industry would “trifurcate”: break into at least three distinct businesses: 1) books that are straight narrative text intended for immersive reading; 2) adult books that are not straight text, either very chunkable (like cookbooks or travel books) or […]

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Will juvie publishing remain a book business as tablets take over?

November 1, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

This post will discuss a realization I had even before this morning’s news about the developing e-products scene. I’ve always been a skeptic about enhanced ebooks, based on seeing my hunch that they wouldn’t work come true 15 years ago with CD-Roms. But it is increasingly obvious that CD-Rom type thinking will work very well […]

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