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No book market looks like an English-speaking market yet; might Germany be next?

August 1, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

Although ebooks are seen as the symbol of “disruption” in the trade book marketplace, they’re really just a part of it and they’re the trailing component, not the leading edge. Online sales of print books were making life more challenging for booksellers in the US even before the Kindle debuted in late 2007. And it […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AKEP, Amazon, Anne Stirnweis, Borsenverein, Frankfurt Book Fair, Libreka, MVB GhbH, Osianderesche Buchhandlung, Random House Germany, Ronald Schild, Steffen Meier, Tobias Schmid, Verlag Eugen Ulmer

The unit of appreciation and the unit of sale

September 26, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

My professional background —  indeed, most of my life that isn’t family, friends, baseball, and politics — is trade publishing: the publishing that is intended for consumers and which got its name becaiuse it has been transacted primarily through “the trade”: bookstores. But this past week I spent two full days with the Publisher Advisory […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Associated Press, CCC, Chicago Tribune, Copyright Clearance Center, Frankfurt Book Fair, Google, Harper Collins UK, IFRRO, Mark Dressler, New York Times, Ronald Schild, Victoria Barnsley

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