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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

Print book retailing economics and ebook retailing economics have almost nothing in common

October 7, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 63 Comments

There has been a lot of conversation lately about the differences between wholesale pricing and agency pricing for ebooks and about what constitutes a “fair” division of revenue between publishers and retailers. Since the economics of bookstores have been generally misunderstood for years, it is not surprising that the understanding of what changes make sense […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Bookbub, Crown Bookstores, Hachette, Ingram, Jonathan Nowell, Josh Schanker, KDP, Matt Cavner, Michael Cader, Microsoft, Mobi, Nielsen Book, Open Road, Palm Digital, Palm Pilot, Peanut Press, Rachel Chou, Random House, Russ Grandinetti, Vook

Guessing wrong about the future happens to all of us; here are 2 times it happened to me

July 28, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 24 Comments

One very lucky thing for those of us who are in the habit of predicting the future is that very few people keep score on us. We mostly keep score on ourselves. When I want to remind readers of something I said previously, I link back to it and call it forward it again. But […]

Filed Under: Community, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, iPhone, J.K. Rowling, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, O'Reilly, OpenSky, Palm Digital, Palm Pilot, Pottermore, Psion Organiser, Rocket Book, Safari, Softbook, Sony Reader

Merchandising ebooks is a problem not really solved yet

June 14, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 30 Comments

I have always been in the process of reading at least one book since I was about 8 years old. When I was a little kid, I’d find them in the house (Dad was in publishing) or at the library in my home village of Croton-on-Hudson or in the school library. Sometimes extraordinary measures delivered […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Bookish, Gene McCarthy, George McGovern, Google ebooks, James Patterson, John Locke, Kindle, Kobo, Landmark Books, Making of the President 1968, Nook, Palm Digital, Pierre Salinger, Random House, Robert Kennedy, The Shatzkin Files, Theodore White

Are “enhanced ebooks” the CD-Rom era all over again?

January 12, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

Is this where I came in? In the early 1990s, the computer manufacturers and Microsoft were doing everything they could to persuade businesses and consumers that they really, really, really needed CD-Rom drives. That Microsoft would benefit from them was very clear; the software they were selling was taking more and more diskettes to deliver […]

Filed Under: eBooks, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Amazon, Bob Stein, dot lit, Enhanced ebooks, Kindle, Microsoft, Mobipocket, Palm Digital, PDA, PDF, Simon & Schuster, StarTrek, Voyager Expanded Book, Wiley

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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