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A Frankfurt reminder: the world is getting smaller

October 11, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

At the conclusion of another Frankfurt Book Fair — my thirty-somethingth — here is something I actually knew before but have taken on board in a whole new way: there is an enormous gap between the US and everyplace else in the Western world (at least) in consumer ebook takeup and acceptance. Here is what […]

Filed Under: Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon.com, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, BookExpo America, Denmark, Frankfurt Book Fair, Holland, Ingram, iPad, Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom", Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Palm Pilot, Slovenia, Sony Reader

Learning some things at dinner in Sao Paolo

August 11, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 25 Comments

I was struck when I visited Australia three years ago at how the protection of thousands of miles of ocean had kept their book trade looking like ours did three decades ago. Prices of books were very high in stores and there were lots of stores and lots of independent stores. But the biggest moat […]

Filed Under: eBooks, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Kindle, PublishNews, Ricardo Costa, Sony Reader

Big publishers have reason to be happy about how the book market is evolving

June 21, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

Big publishers have to be very happy about how things have been developing in the ebook world over the last six months or so. In that time, we have gone from a situation in which Kindle appeared to so totally dominate digital reading that Kindle-only publishing seemed an imminent threat to disintermediate publishers to one […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Adobe Digital Editions, Amazon, Android, B&N, Blackberry, Blio, Borders, Calibre, Copia, DRM, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, Kirk Biglione, Kobo, Nook, Sony Reader

We’ve had “gradually”; get ready for “suddenly”

May 10, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 46 Comments

I don’t think too many future predictors are .300 hitters, and one ground ball I tapped out to shortstop was my hunch that the iPad wouldn’t have an immediate significant impact on ebook sales (although I thought it would be important over time.) According to data and analysis uniquely developed and provided by Michael Cader, published […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: BISG, Blio, Copia, Harlequin, iPad, Kindle, Kobo Reader, Making Information Pay, Michael Cader, Nook, Publishers Marketplace, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Sony Reader

Ebook growth explosive; serious disruptions around the corner

August 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 42 Comments

The news about trade ebook sales growth continues apace. The IDPF has just said that sales in June 2009 were up 136% over June a year ago. Calendar year sales to date are up about 150% over 2008. Anecdotal information from big trade houses suggests that ebook sales are approaching 3% of total sales. But […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barbara Kingsolver, Barnes & Noble, Content Reserve, Dan Brown, E.L. Doctorow, IDPF, Indigo, John Irving, Jon Krakauer, Kindle, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Attwood, Michael Crichton, Pat Conroy, Philip Roth, Random House, Scribd, Shortcovers, Smashwords, Sony Reader

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