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Going where the customers are might be an alternative to selling direct

August 9, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

The news that Faber in the UK has partnered with a company called Firsty Group to offer direct-to-consumer services to their distribution clients again calls the question about publishers selling direct. In my recent post about the likely outcome of the DoJ settlement being accepted by the Court, I said I was re-thinking my admonition […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, F+W Media, Faber, Firsty Group, iBookstore, Ingram, Lightning Source, Open Sky, Phil Ollila, Politico, Politics & Prose, Random House, Zola Books

Can big publishers compete if the coin of the realm is “names”?

October 27, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

In a conversation earlier this week I learned that the big Hollywood talent agencies have come to the recognition that “audience aggregation”, a component of what I have been calling a “vertical” strategy, needs to be incorporated into their thinking going forward. This was signaled very strongly recently when longtime publisher Steve Ross took his […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Direct response, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Abrams Artists Agency, Amazon, Author Solutions, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Borders, Digital Book World, F+W Media, Harlequin, Hay House, Ingram, iUniverse, Joe Konrath, LibreDigital, Open Sky, PubIt, SkyShelf, Steve Ross

Three fledglings that really should fly

September 30, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

Sometimes you hear of an idea or a new business that seems so right-on-the-money that you wish you had invested in it and figure it is just a matter of time before it grows into something very powerful and important. Here are three of those — all of which should be of interest to publishers […]

Filed Under: Community, Direct response, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Eoin Purcell, Evan Schnittman, Flat World Knowledge, Ingram, Mary Ann Naples. Macmillan, Open Sky

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