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Amazon might lose interest in total hegemony over the book business before they achieve it

November 5, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 25 Comments

The industry got the news that Amazon was probably reassessing its own publishing program a couple of weeks ago when it was announced that Laurence Kirshbaum was stepping down as the head of Amazon Publishing and being replaced by a 14-year veteran of the Seattle company, Daphne Durham. Whatever are Durham’s strengths and connections, they […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", "Wool", Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Brad Stone, Countdown Clock, Daphne Durham, GoodReads, Google, Hugh Howey, Jeff Bezos, Laurence Kirshbaum, Macmillan, Matchbook, Penguin Random House, Penny Marshall, Timothy Ferriss

The totality of the relationship is what matters

August 6, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

Like a marriage, relationships between people and companies are seldom made or broken on the back of one transaction or one kind of transaction. They are bigger and more complicated than that. That point was driven home in my house over the weekend by the dustup between Time Warner Cable and CBS, which resulted in […]

Filed Under: New Models, Supply-Chain, Unbundling Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, CBS, Channel 2, Channel One, Dexter, F+W Media, Home Depot, iBookstore, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Judge Cote, Kindle, Kobo, Loew's, NFL, Nook, Overstock.com, Penguin Random House, Random House, Raymond Donovan, Showtime, Time Warner Cable

Anybody Press is the new member of the Big Six (for ebooks, at least)

June 17, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

Bowker reported last week that 12% of the ebooks being bought now are self-published. There was skepticism about the methodology from The Digital Reader and Good e-Reader says Bowker’s data should be taken “with a grain of salt”. But the exact number doesn’t matter; the trend does. The share of the consumer ebook dollar going […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Hangman's Daughter", "Wool", Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bowker, CreateSpace, Good eReader, Hachette, HarperCollins, Houghton Harcourt, Hugh Howey, Lightning Source, Penguin Random House, Peter McCarthy, Simon & Schuster, The Digital Reader

What I was thinking when I said that wild stuff

June 6, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

At our Publishers Launch Conference on the Wednesday of BEA, Michael Cader and I introduced a new feature we think will become regular at our events: a candid 1-on-1 conversation between us. It went well. In fact, it went so well that what reads like a pretty damn accurate verbatim account of much of it […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ed Nawotka, Mark Bide, Michael Cader, Penguin Random House, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Publishers Licensing Society, Publishing Perspectives, VMI

How much time and effort should established publishers be spending on startups?

March 7, 2013 by Jess 10 Comments

We are now in a period replete with startups that want to be the disruption in publishing. We see a lot of them in our office. Part of our business involves helping startups find relevance and contacts within the established publishing community. There are three areas in particular which the startups seem to think the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Blio, Bookish, Cengage, Copia, GoodReads, Google, Ingram, Inkling, Javier Celaya, Joe Regal, Kobo, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, O'Reilly, Pearson, Penguin Random House, Safari, Zola Books

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