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Can big publishers actually do tech and make books at the same time?

October 27, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

Something caught my eye this week that has been very little commented upon elsewhere: the news that Hachette Book Group developed an app-making capability that they are now licensing out. Their first customer was Round Table Companies, a book packager. I found this striking because big book publishers are not generally known for developing technology; […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amazon, aNobii, Book Country, Bookish, Charlotte Abbott, Hachette Book Group, Molly Barton, Penguin, Random House, Round Table Companies, Scholastic, Smashing Ideas

Children’s books: the new value chain is a work-in-progress

September 11, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

It occurred to us about a year ago that the children’s book business was wide open for disruption from new players outside the publishing business. Already, two of the companies we mentioned in a post back then about the new entrants that might be the actual instruments of disruption have linked up with established publishers. That […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Children's Publishing Goes Digital", "eBooks Around the World", Elevation Partners, Lorraine Shanley, My Weekly Reader, Oceanhouse, Random House, Readers Digest, Rick Richter, Roger McNamee, Ruckus Media, Scholastic, Sesame Street, Smashing Ideas, Touchy Books, Trilogy Studios

Will juvie publishing remain a book business as tablets take over?

November 1, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

This post will discuss a realization I had even before this morning’s news about the developing e-products scene. I’ve always been a skeptic about enhanced ebooks, based on seeing my hunch that they wouldn’t work come true 15 years ago with CD-Roms. But it is increasingly obvious that CD-Rom type thinking will work very well […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing Tagged With: Alice fo the iPad, Apple, Callaway Digital Arts, CD-Roms, Disney, Dr. Seuss. Berenstain Bears, Electronic Arts, Google, Hasbro, Hay House, iFund, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Marc Jaffe, Nickelodeon, NOOKcolor, Oceanhouse Media, Publishers Lunch, Rabbit Ears Library, Random House, Rick Richter, Rodale, Ruckus Media Group, Simon & Schuster, Smashing Ideas, The Jungle Book, The Wizard of Oz, Trilogy Studios, War of the Worlds

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