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June 17, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The planning process for the main Digital Book World program — about 40 discrete programming elements using about 150 speakers over two days — has always benefited from a “Conference Council” brainstorming meeting. This year’s iteration is later this week. We’ll have attendees from all of the Big Five, several other publishers, agents, and assorted […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, Direct response, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Put Me in the Story", "This Is Your Cookbook", Aer.io, Amazon, Big Five, DBW Conference Council, Ingram, Kobo, Quarto, Smashwords, Sourcebooks

The publishing business as we have known it is not going away anytime soon

June 11, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 38 Comments

Regular readers, please pardon me for the unusual length of this post, but it covers a lot of ground that I think is necessary to make the point. A friend who has actually been working fulltime in the book business since I was still in college and who remains active was speculating at BEA about […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Author Earnings, Barnes & Noble, BookScan, Borders, Codex Group, DBW, Gareth Cuddy, Google, Harry Bingham, iBooks, Ingram, James Patterson, Jane Friedman, John Wiley, Nielsen Market Research, Nook, Publishing Technology, PubTrack Digital, Smashwords, Vearsa

Asking whether Amazon is friend or foe is a simple question that is complicated to answer

March 15, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 56 Comments

I’ve been invited to join a discussion entitled “Amazon: Friend or Foe” (meaning “for publishers”) sponsored by the Digital Media Group of the Worshipful Company of Stationers (only in England!) and taking place in London next month. I think the answer must be “both”, and I suspect that my discussion-mates — Fionnuala Duggan, formerly of […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: 24Symbols, Aerbook, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Big Five, Bluefire, Bookmate, Coursesmart, De Marque, Digital Media Group, Encyclopedia Britannica, Finitiv, Fionnuala Duggan, Google, Impelsys, Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, London Book Fair, Michael Ross, Nook, Oyster, Page Foundry, Philip Walters, Random House, Scribd, Smashwords, Steve Jobs, Tizra, Waterstone's, Worshipful Company of Stationers

Getting Mark Coker right this time and agreeing with him up to a point

March 12, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

On Tuesday, for the first time in the five years I have been writing this blog, I did a post I would like to take back. (But in the interest of the public record, and because there were several comments of value, I’m leaving it up.) This is the post that I should have written […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: CCC, Diversion, Faber, Great Debate, Huffington Post, Hugh Howey, Ken Brooks, London Book Fair, Mark Coker, McGraw Hill Education, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Scott Waxman, Smashwords, Stephen Page

Sometimes one more calculation can make what looked first like revolution resemble what it really is: evolution

March 11, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

Author’s warning: this post is largely wrong! The following post was written based on a fundamental misunderstanding, assuming that Mark Coker’s post was talking about ebook sales in units when he was talking about dollars.  So while there are some insights that may have value, the post is mostly wrong.   I am leaving it […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Huffington Post, Hugh Howey, Mark Coker, Smashwords

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