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Conferences are thermometers recording the level of fear about publishing changes

December 7, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

In the latest sign that the need for information about digital change in publishing has undergone a sea change in the past few years, it was announced today that Nielsen will not stage an independent conference in London this April, but will instead join forces with the London Book Fair to do an event there […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, David Nussbaum, Denis Bennett, Digital Book World, Diversion Books, EverAfter Romance, F+W Media, Frankfurt Book Fair, Ingenta, Ingram, KIPI, Knowledge Industry Publications, London Book Fair, Michael Cader, Microsoft, NetGalley, Nielsen, O'Reilly Media, Palm, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Weekly, Radius Book Group, Sara Domville, Scott Waxman, Sony, Tim O'Reilly, Tools of Change, VISTA Computer Services

Sony exits and the ebook business loses an original player

February 9, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

Sony has thrown in the towel on the ebook business and turned its customers over to Kobo. This has unleashed speculation that Nook will soon do the same. If B&N were really forced to choose between the investments they need to make in their stores and the investments required to compete in digital delivery, it […]

Filed Under: eBooks, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, AllRomanceebooks, Amazon Source, Android, aNobii, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Bookish, BooksonBoard, Borders, Copia, Diesel, Google, iOS, Kindle, Kobo, Len Riggio, Matchbook, Mobcast, Nook, Oyster, Sainsbury's, Sony, Sony Reader, Tesco, Txtr, Wal-mart, Waterstone's, Zola Books

Amazon as a threat to steal big titles from big publishers is still a ways off

October 23, 2012 by Jess 16 Comments

When Larry Kirshbaum, the longtime head of TimeWarner Publishing (purchased right after he left in 2007 by Hachette and now the company called Hachette Book Group USA) joined Amazon many people thought — I among them — that Amazon was about to become a threat to take big titles away from the major publishers and, […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Politics, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barry Eisler, Blio, Bookish, Copia, Democratic National Convention 1968, George Wallace, Google, Hachette Book Group USA, Joe Konrath, Kobo, KOLL, Larry Kirshbaum, Michael Cader, Penny Marshall, Pierre Salinger, Professor Richard Wade, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, Senator George McGovern, Sony, Southern Strategy, Spiro Agnew, Tim Ferriss, TimeWarner Publishing, Wall Street Journal, Zola eBooks

True “do-it-yourself” publishing success stories will probably become rare

November 6, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 145 Comments

Getting ready for our eBooks for Everyone Else conferences, I discovered an author named Bob Mayer who impressed me with his self-publishing zeal and apparent success. Bob has written lots of military fiction, science fiction, even a romance novel, and some non-fiction: dozens of books over the years for major publishers. Most of it was […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amanada Hocking, Amazon, Barry Eisler, Bob Mayer, Bookmasters, Deidre Knight, Diversion Books, Ereads, Google, Joe Konrath, John Locke, KDP, Kindle, Kobo, Laura Rennert, Nook, Open Road, Publishers Lunch, Rosetta, Scott Waxman, Smashwords, Sony

Kobo’s new deals propel them into the top tier of global ebook competitors

October 16, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

The week I spend each year at the Frankfurt Book Fair is always the most stimulating week of my professional year. The concentration of the best thinkers and most powerful people in publishing always seems to lead me to a new burst of understanding about our global publishing world, particularly in these times of rapid […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Bookish, Copia, European Competition Commission, European Union, FNAC, Frankfurt Book Fair, Google, Kobo, Sony, Waterstone's, WHSmith

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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