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New ways to sell ebooks aren’t easy to implement

January 29, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 31 Comments

A simple and perfectly sensible suggestion emerged on the Brantley email list yesterday but the conversation around it showed that some stark realities about the book world have not yet been taken on board, even in very sophisticated circles (which this list is.) The list discussed a suggestion from librarian Josh Greenberg  that publishers take note of […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, CNN, Content Reserve, Ingram, Josh Greenberg, Kobo, Michael Cader, New York Times Bestseller List, Robert Gottlieb, Rocketbook, Softbook, Sprout, Steve Jobs, Wall Street Journal, Walter Mossberg

The Sourcebooks experiment with Bran Hambric: publishers in the early “establishment” stage of ebook adoption

July 20, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

In a post last week we reviewed what Sourcebook CEO Dominque Raccah did — announcing she was holding back the ebook publication of a new hardcover YA novel coming this September — and why she said she did it. Over the weekend, we posted about what we see as the four stages of ebook adoption. […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Arthur Andersen, B&N, Dominique Rac, Evan Schnittman, Forrester Research, Kindle, Michael Cader, Rocketbook, Scribd, Smashwords, Softbook, Sony Reader, Sourcebooks

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