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What Oyster going down demonstrates is not mostly about the viability of ebook subscriptions

September 23, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

The news that the general ebook subscription offering Oyster is throwing in the towel was not really a surprise. The business model they were forced to adopt for the biggest publishers — paying full price for each use of a book with a threshold trigger at considerably less than a complete read while, at the […]

Filed Under: Atomization, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Android, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Big Five, Borders, Carolyn Reidy, Entitle, Google, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, iOS, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, KU, Macmillan, New York Times, Oyster, Penguin Random House, Rakuten, Russell Grandinetti, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster

Book publishing may not remain a stand-alone industry and book retailing will demonstrate that first

January 29, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 17 Comments

You are missing some good fun if you don’t know those AT&T commercials where the grown-up sits around a table with a bunch of really little kids and asks them questions like “what’s better: faster or slower?” There always seems to be an obvious “correct” answer. Those kids could answer some important questions about ebook […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BN .com, Google, Google Play, Jeff Bezos, Kobo, Nexus 7, Rakuten

If the government makes agency go away

March 8, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 158 Comments

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department has notified the Agency Five (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster) and Apple that it plans to sue them for colluding to raise the price of electronic books. I have no standing to comment on the law here. But if this does mean the […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Agency Five, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BN .com, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, iBookstore, Kobo, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Nook, Penguin, Publishers Lunch, Rakuten, Random House, Seth Godin, Simon & Schuster, Wall Street Journal

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