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Four of the big five have new deals with Amazon and only the biggest is still to negotiate one

April 24, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

A reporter called earlier this week focused on what he figures are the upcoming negotiations over trading terms between Amazon and Penguin Random House. I had observed when Amazon was throwing sharp elbows at Hachette during their contractual dispute that Amazon wouldn’t try similar tactics with PRH. Since then, with HarperCollins and Amazon having announced […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Abrams, Amazon, B&N Nook, Big Five, Big Six, Bloomsbury, Books-a-Million, Cambridge, Chronicle, DOJ, Egmont, Following Four, Google Play, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harry Potter, iBookstore, Justice Cote, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, Macmillan, Oxford, Oyster, Penguin Random House, PRH, Quarto, Running Press, Scholastic, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Tor.com

Penguin Random House does its competitors a favor by walking away from subscription

November 19, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 30 Comments

I sometimes feel like I’m the only guy in town (NYC, but I’d include London too) contemplating out loud how Penguin Random House might use its position as by far the biggest commercial trade publisher to make life a bit more difficult for its competitors, which in the first instance means the Following Four: HarperCollins […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Subscriptions Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Bertelsmann, Bookmate, BookScan, FutureBook, Hachette, HarperCollins, Jonathan Stolper, Kensington, Kindle Unlimited, Macmillan, Nielsen, Oyster, Penguin Random House, Philip Jones, PRH, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Skoobe, Ted Hill, The Bookseller, Tom Weldon, vendor-managed inventory

It is hard for publishers to apply even Harvard B School advice in their struggle with Amazon

July 15, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 109 Comments

Harvard Business Review published an article recently by Benjamin Edelman called “Mastering the Intermediaries” which gives advice to businesses trying to avoid some of the consequences of audience aggregation and control by an intermediary. The article was aimed at restaurants who don’t want their fate controlled by Open Table or travel companies who don’t want […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Everything Store", Aerbook, Amazon, American Airlines, Apple, Ashley Gordon, B&N, Baker & Taylor, Benjamin Edelman, Big Five, Bluefire, Book.ish, Chris Kubica, Donnelley, Eugene Volokh, Expedia, Fandango, Foodler, Google, Grubhub, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harvard Business Review, Ingram, Jeff Stone, Joe Regal, John Sargent, Kayak, Kindle, Macmillan, MovieTickets, Open Table, Oyster, Penguin Random House, Peter Meyers, PRH, Robert Bork, Scribd, Zola Books

Subscription services for ebooks progress to becoming a real experiment

May 27, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

My long-held conviction that broad-based subscriptions for ebooks were not likely to work is partly based on facts that are now changing. It is still by no means a slam dunk that ebooks must go where Spotify has taken digital music and Netflix has taken the digital distribution of TV and movies, but it looks […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Big Five, Book-of-the-Month Club, Carolyn Reidy, Evan Schnittman, Hachette, HarperCollins, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Macmillan, Netflix, Oyster, Penguin Random House, PRH, S&S, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Spotify

Nine places to look in 2014 to predict the future of publishing

January 1, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

The digital transition of the trade book publishing business, which I would date from the opening of Amazon.com in 1995, enters its 20th year in 2014. Here are some of the ponderables as we close out the first two decades of a process of very rapid change that is far from over. 1. What’s going […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Big One, Big Six, Curtis Brown, Derek Jeter, Diversion, E-Reads, Entitle, eReatah, Following Four, Hugh Howey, iPad, John Locke, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Matchbook, O'Reilly, Oyster, Pearson, Penguin Random House, PRH, Rosetta, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Writer's House

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