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The sale of B&N again calls the question of the future of America’s bookstores

June 17, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The most important question in the world of trade publishing is “what will happen to the book trade”, meaning, primarily, the bookstores (but also the other retailers that sell books, the libraries and the wholesalers that supply them). That was the topic of a panel called “The Power of Retail” at BEA in New York […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: ABAn, Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, Dennis Abboud, Elliott Management, James Daunt, Madeline McIntosh, Oren Teicher, Penguin Random House, ReaderLink, Tim Mantel, Waterstone's

The dominance of Amazon needs to be addressed but it is far more attributable to natural circumstances than it is anybody’s fault

May 7, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

As things evolve in an era of rapid change, it is human nature to assign credit or blame for any drastic alterations in circumstances. And so we have the book business, with its last remaining chain store behemoth, Barnes & Noble, in a period of obvious decline and presenting the clear possibility that the book […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Crown Books, David Leonhardt, Facebook, Google, I2S2, Ingram, Oren Teicher, The New York Times, US Department of Justice

Learning some things at ABA’s Winter Institute

January 21, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

The American Booksellers Association held their seventh annual “Winter Institute” in New Orleans this year, and it took place last week. When I had a meeting at Frankfurt in October with the ABA’s Chief Executive Officer, Oren Teicher, to recruit him to speak at Digital Book World 2012 (which he will do this coming week), […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, Industry Events, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: American Booksellers Association, Ann Patchett, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Carl Lennertz, Chris Morrow, Google, HarperCollins, Ingram, John Mutter, Madeline McIntosh, Matt Sutko, McGovern campaign, Northshire, Oren Teicher, Random House, Shelf-Awareness, Skip Prichard, WI7, Winter Institute, World Book Night

Show me the data!

January 16, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 24 Comments

One thing we try to do at Digital Book World is to present our audiences with useful, relevant, and, when we can, original data. It is a familiar complaint in our industry that we drive blind. Part of that is due to the sheer diversity and granularity of the “book business”. And another part is […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: A.T. Kearney, AllRomance.com, Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Amy Henry, Association of Booksellers for Children, Barnes & Noble, Bill Newlin, BISG, BookData, Bookigee, Bookrepublic, BookScan, Bowker, Disney, Forrester Research, Fran Toolan, HarperCollins, IfBookThen, Ira Mayer, Jack McKeown, James McQuivey, Jonathan Nowell, Kelly Gallagher, Kobo, Kristen McLean, Lorraine Shanley, metadata, Nielsen, Oren Teicher, Scholastic, Verso Media, Youth Beat, Youth Market Alerts

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