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The support infrastructure for entities to publish is growing but the most important piece may not yet be provided

November 11, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

I remember a song lyric from the early 70s for which the opening line was: “we don’t need more sailors, we need a captain”. (I can’t find the reference in LyricFind and I don’t remember the name of the band.) That song could be about the new publishing that is arising from the phenomenon of […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling Tagged With: Amazon, atomization, BiblioCrunch, Blurb, Bruce Harris, Content Marketing Institute, ePubDirect, Fast Company, Forbes, Frederator Studios, Ingram, James Robinson, Joe Pulizzi, Lulu, Matt Cavner, Michael Cader, Molly Barton, Nathan Mhyrvold, OverDrive, Oyster, Richard Nash, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd, The Associated Press, The New York Times, Thought Catalog, unbundling, US News & World Report

Is the new Amazon acquisition something publishers need to think about or not?

August 26, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

If you’re like me, you know a thing or two about the book business but you didn’t know there was a business called Twitch until you heard the announcement this morning that Amazon had bought it for about $1 billion, apparently outbidding or somehow finessing Google to make the purchase. Twitch, I have learned, streams […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Community, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Bob Stein, James McQuivey, New York Times, Richard Nash, Twitch, Wall Street Journal

Planning the next publishing model: a new take on “no returns”

May 24, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

Although there are some very good minds working on the next publishing model — Jane Friedman with Open Road and Richard Nash with Cursor being the first two that leap to mind — I have developed a couple of thoughts that might be helpful to them or to others planning to avail themselves of the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders, Cursor, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Ingram, Jane Friedman, Jeffrey Sharp, Lightning, Open Road, Pablo Defendini, Rachel Chou, Richard Nash, Tor

Is the ebook and POD combo a viable publishing strategy yet?

September 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

There’s a new publishing model afoot, which is to lead with the ebook and just print what you need. That might be POD, and it might be press runs, if you can sell out whole press runs. If the ebook becomes a substantial chunk of sales and if ebooks maintain their prices, this looks like […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ellora's Cave, Eoin Purcell, Google, Harlequin, Kassia Kroszer, Kindle, PublishersMarketplace, Quartet, Richard Nash, Tor.com

BEA will be a shame to lose, but can it be saved?

June 1, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

Dinner Saturday night. 12 of us. Three spouses who had no particular interest in the BEA. Eight of us with one interest or another in the book business, but no possibility of personally being an exhibitor. And one publishing company CEO with a stand. Of course, I got my money’s worth. I got in free as […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: BEA, Bookmasters, F+W, Frankfurt Book Fair, Klopotek, Martin Levin, Michael Cairns, Richard Nash, Taunton, Wiley

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