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“Platforms” are not exclusively the purview of Kindle, NOOK, and other retailers

October 17, 2012 by Admin 11 Comments

I am recently awakened to the importance of “platforms” in our dynamic digital publishing world. Some could say I’m slow on this one (and they’d be right). Perhaps it is the “to the man with a hammer everything looks like a nail” syndrome in action, but my belated awareness reminds me once again that the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "Put Me in the Story", Capstone, Dominique Raccah, FreeTime, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kobo, Kobo ARC, LeVar Burton, Magic Town, Mark Wolfe, Nook, Osprey, Pinterest, Reading Rainbow, Rebecca Smart, RRKidz, Ruckus, Scholastic, Seth Godin, Shakespearience, Sourcebooks, Storia

Hats off to Amazon

September 10, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 73 Comments

When the story of how Amazon came to dominate the consumer book business is written ten years from now, there will need to be a chapter entitled “September 6, 2012”. Of course, that was the day that Judge Cote approved the settlement agreed to by HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster and began the process […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, rights, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Wool", agile publishing model, Amazon, Apple, Audible, Barnes & Noble, Cliffs Notes, David Houle, Dominique Raccah, FreeTime, Frommer's, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Hugh Howey, iMDB, Immersion Reading, Judge Cote, Kindle, Kindle Serials, Kobo, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Nook, Penguin, Random House, Reading Rainbow, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, Storia, Whispersync, Wiley

Full-service publishers are rethinking what they can offer

September 4, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 34 Comments

At lunch a few months ago, Brian Murray, the CEO of HarperCollins, expressed dissatisfaction with the term “legacy” to describe the publishers who had been successful since before the digital revolution began. For one thing, he felt that sounded too much like “the past”. “We need to come up with a different term,” was his […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Anthony Forbes Watson, Author Solutions, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Book Country, Brian Murray, Charlie Redmayne, Dominique Raccah, Faber, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Hachette, HarperCollins, Helmut Pesch, Ingram, Ken Michaels, Knopf, Leonard Shatzkin, Lubbe, Macmillan, Marcello Vena, Modern Library, Osprey, Pan Macmillan, Penguin, Perseus, Politico, Pottermore, Publishing in the 21st Century, Random House, RCS Libri, Rebecca Smart, Rick Joyce, Scholastic, Scribners, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, Stephen Page, VISTA

DBW lets us look at ebook bestsellers by price, and things are revealed

August 20, 2012 by Admin 17 Comments

Digital Book World unveiled its new ebook bestseller lists this morning. They put this effort together — I program the annual January conference for them; this work has almost nothing to do with me (although I’m over-generously credited with having provided “guidance”) — over the past couple of months working with Dan Lubart. Lubart owns […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Marriage Bargain", Barnes & Noble, Codex Group, Colleen Hoover, Dan Lubart, DBW, Digital Book World, Entangled Publishing, Hachette, HarperCollins, iobyte, Jane Litte, Jim Hilt, Kensington, Kobo, Macmillan, Nook, NY Times, Penguin, Peter Hildick-Smith, Publishers Launch Frankfurt, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Soho, Theresa Horner, USA Today, Waterstone's, WH Smiths

Explaining my skepticism about the likelihood of success for a general subscription model for ebooks

July 22, 2012 by Admin 4 Comments

In a prior post, I observed that the apparently-successful subscription offerings for books were in niches. And I said I believed that a more general subscription model wouldn’t work for ebooks the way it has seemed to work for music (Spotify), movies and TV shows (Netflix), and audiobooks (Audible). By that I meant two things. […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Audible, Bloomsbury, Books24x7, F+W Media, Grove/Atlantic, Kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Leonard Shatzkin, Lonely Planet, Neteflix, Norton, Rosetta Books, Scholastic, Simon Lipskar, Spotify, Workman/Algonquin, Writer's House

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