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Stability in the book marketplace does not mean commercial publishers continue to maintain their share

December 12, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

Publishing reporters doing wrap up stories occasionally call me for impressions. From those conversations I have gleaned that the prevailing impression of where the book business is now is of “stability”. The consensus about adult trade is that ebook sales have stalled or perhaps even receded, that print is strong, and that the big publishers […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Ann Arbor Public Library, Apple iBooks, BISG, Boston Globe, Carolyn Reidy, Chicago Tribune, Cuyahoga County Library System, Kindle Unlimited, Michael Cader, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, S&S, Tbooks, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post

Digital marketing and coping with Amazon are the two big challenges for publishers as we begin 2017

January 3, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I am getting ready to attend my first Digital Book World as a “civilian” (having programmed and moderated the first seven), Thinking about DBW entails recognizing how different the book publishing world today is from what I expected three or six years ago. Be that as it may, the big challenges for the industry — […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, Publishing History, SEO, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Electronic Publishing and Rights", Amazon, Apple, Author Earnings, B&N, Brian Defiore, Codex, Dan Lubart, Data Guy, Ginger Clark, Hugh Howey, iBooks, Ingram, iobyte, John Sargent, Jon Fine, Kindle, Knopf, Kobo, Macmillan, Michael Cader, NetGalley, Nielsen Bookscan, Nook, Peter Hildick-Smith, Peter McCarthy, Porter Anderson, Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster, Susan Ruszala, Ted Hill, Wall Street Journal

Conferences are thermometers recording the level of fear about publishing changes

December 7, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

In the latest sign that the need for information about digital change in publishing has undergone a sea change in the past few years, it was announced today that Nielsen will not stage an independent conference in London this April, but will instead join forces with the London Book Fair to do an event there […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, David Nussbaum, Denis Bennett, Digital Book World, Diversion Books, EverAfter Romance, F+W Media, Frankfurt Book Fair, Ingenta, Ingram, KIPI, Knowledge Industry Publications, London Book Fair, Michael Cader, Microsoft, NetGalley, Nielsen, O'Reilly Media, Palm, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Weekly, Radius Book Group, Sara Domville, Scott Waxman, Sony, Tim O'Reilly, Tools of Change, VISTA Computer Services

The “Big Change” era in trade book publishing ended about four years ago

July 11, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

Book publishing is still very much in a time of changing conditions and circumstances. There are a host of unknowables about the next several years that affect the shape of the industry and the strategies of all the players in it. But as publishers, retailers, libraries, and their ecosystem partners prepare for whatever is next, […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Electronic Publishing and Rights", Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Borders, CreateSpace, Edelweiss, Firebrand, Hachette, HarperCollins, iBookstore, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Kobo, Macintosh, Macmillan, NetGalley, Nook, Palm Pilot, Penguin, Publishers Weekly, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Steve Jobs, US Department of Justice, Voyager Expanded Book

The disruption of the disruption is temporary

April 30, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 29 Comments

There’s little doubt that the digital (r)evolution, to the degree it is measured by the shift by consumers from reading on paper to reading on a screen, has plateaued, at least temporarily. The most recent article in PW on the subject spells out that some publishers have even seen their digital sales decline, although always […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "50 Shades of Gray", Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BestLittleBookshop.com, Big Five, DBW 2015, F+W Media, Hobbit, Houghton Harcourt, Kieron Smith, Nook, Penguin Random House, Publishers Weekly, Quarto Publishing, Random House, The Book Depository

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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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