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The truth is we do not yet know whether ebooks will work for anything except readerly books

December 4, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 36 Comments

In the 1990s, Mark Bide would always begin the “Publishing in the 21st Century” conferences we ran by reviewing the research we had done around some aspect of digital change in publishing with the admonition that book publishing was “many very different businesses.” By that, Mark meant that trade publishers (who sold primarily through bookstores) […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Vertical Tagged With: "What Technology Wants", Aerbook, Aptara, Books in Browsers, Citia, Dr. David Hessayon, Experts guides, Inkling, Kevin Kelly, Mark Bide, Nate Hoffelder, New York Times, O'Reilly, Pearson, Peter Brantley, Peter Meyers, Publishing in the 21st Century, Random House, Random House UK, Safari

Unbundling in the book business: the fourth big trend

May 13, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

A few weeks ago, I wrote that there are three big forces driving the future of publishing: scale, verticalization, and atomization. I was wrong. I had forgotten my own blogpost from last September when I identified another trend that belongs with the first three: “unbundling”. The book business, in the trade segment I follow most […]

Filed Under: Atomization, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Vertical Tagged With: "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking", "The Shift Decade", "Wool", Aerbook, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BiblioCrunch, Bruce Harris, CreateSpace, David Houle, Evolution Shift, Hachette, Harmony Books, Hugh Howey, InDesign, Ingram Publisher Services, Ken Michaels, Kobo, Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, NetMinds, Nolan Bushnell, Penguin, Random House, Random House UK, Ron Martinez, Simon & Schuster, Smashwords, Sourcebooks, The Shift Age, Word

Stats are often hard to interpret in our business

January 13, 2013 by Admin 20 Comments

Stats are often hard to interpret in our business. The reported data comes, of course, after the fact (you can’t report things before they happen) and is often aggregated in ways that don’t tell us what we really need to know. So I tried an exercise last week of asking a few agents for their […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Weekly, Random House UK

Things learned and thoughts provoked by London Book Fair 2012

April 24, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 47 Comments

This post contains a batch of observations from this year’s London Book Fair. Some of it recalled an experience from about 20 years ago. We’ll begin there. In the early 1990s, Microsoft was on a mission to get computer hardware manufacturers to install CD-Rom drives in new machines. Microsoft had a very simple motivation. Software […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Allen Lau, Amazon, Andrew Steele, Audible, Belinda Rasmussen, Bloomsbury, Bob Young, Charlie Redmayne, Copyright Clearance Center, Digital Minds, Eric Huang, Evan Schnittman, Fionnuala Duggan, Funny or Die, Hachette Book Group USA, International Course Smart, Jeff Gomez, Kate Wilson, Lulu, Michael Healy, Microsoft, Nosy Crow, Pan Macmillan, Penguin, Pottermore, Publishing Point, Random House UK, Recorded Books, Sara Lloyd, Starlight Runner Entertainment, Susan Danziger, The Great Debate, Wattpad

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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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