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Lots of Spanish speakers in the United States, but not so much of a book market for Spanish books

April 19, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Somebody somewhere reported last month that the United States is the home country to the second largest number of Spanish-speakers in the world, after Mexico. Since I am speaking in Madrid to Spanish publishers at the end of May, that seemed like something I should learn more about. The US must be a market. The […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, rights, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Uncategorized, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, American Book Group, Atria, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Costco, Dan Brown, E L James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George R. R. Martin, Hachette, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Espanol, HarperCollins Iberica, Ingram, Isabel Allende, Jenni Rivera, John Grisham, Judith Curr, Junot Diaz, Laura Esquivel, Paulo Coelho, Penguin Random House, PRH Grupo Editorial, ReaderLink, Roberto Bolano, Sandra Cisneros, Simon & Schuster, Spanish Publishers, Stephen King

Temperature check from two US CEOs at Frankfurt 2017

October 18, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

It is no surprise that the public remarks at Frankfurt by Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle and Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy contain gems worth pondering. Book publishing has been fortunate to have really smart people leading the biggest companies during our period of digital transition. The apparent collusion over the implementation of […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Hunger Games", "The Fault in Our Stars", Amazon, Author Earnings, Carolyn Reidy, Data Guy, Harry Potter Twilight, Hugh Howey, John Green, Macmillan, Markus Dohle, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Tor Books

Digital marketing and coping with Amazon are the two big challenges for publishers as we begin 2017

January 3, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I am getting ready to attend my first Digital Book World as a “civilian” (having programmed and moderated the first seven), Thinking about DBW entails recognizing how different the book publishing world today is from what I expected three or six years ago. Be that as it may, the big challenges for the industry — […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, Publishing History, SEO, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Electronic Publishing and Rights", Amazon, Apple, Author Earnings, B&N, Brian Defiore, Codex, Dan Lubart, Data Guy, Ginger Clark, Hugh Howey, iBooks, Ingram, iobyte, John Sargent, Jon Fine, Kindle, Knopf, Kobo, Macmillan, Michael Cader, NetGalley, Nielsen Bookscan, Nook, Peter Hildick-Smith, Peter McCarthy, Porter Anderson, Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster, Susan Ruszala, Ted Hill, Wall Street Journal

The latest marketplace data would seem to say publishers are as strong as ever

October 18, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 61 Comments

This post began being written a couple of weeks ago when I recalled some specific misplaced expectations I had for the self-publishing revolution and started to ponder why things happened the way they did in recent years. It turns out a big part of the answer I was looking for provides clarity that extends far […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Wool", Amanda Hocking, Amazon, Author Earnings, Avon, Barnes & Noble, Bob Mayer, Borders, Boston Bruins, Boston Globe, Bruce Harris, Byliner, Data Guy, Diversion Books, Hearst, Hugh Howey, Ingram, Ingram Spark, Macmillan, Meredith, Michael Cader, Morrow, Nathan Myhrvold, NBC, Norton, Politico, Pronoun, Publishing Perspectives, Random House, Rodale, Scott Waxman, Simon & Schuster, Sterling Publishing, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vook, Whitey Bulger

The “Big Change” era in trade book publishing ended about four years ago

July 11, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

Book publishing is still very much in a time of changing conditions and circumstances. There are a host of unknowables about the next several years that affect the shape of the industry and the strategies of all the players in it. But as publishers, retailers, libraries, and their ecosystem partners prepare for whatever is next, […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Electronic Publishing and Rights", Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Borders, CreateSpace, Edelweiss, Firebrand, Hachette, HarperCollins, iBookstore, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Kobo, Macintosh, Macmillan, NetGalley, Nook, Palm Pilot, Penguin, Publishers Weekly, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Steve Jobs, US Department of Justice, Voyager Expanded Book

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