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The expected changes in the book business favor Amazon’s share growth

March 5, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

This post is the second that is contemplating two big questions facing the publishing industry: When will the growth in Amazon’s share of the consumer book business stop? Who will be left standing when it does? Amazon applies pressure and generates angst among publishers from two directions. As they grow to be 30% or more […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Brentano's, Charles Scribner's Sons, Crowell-Collier, Deepak Chopra, Doubleday, Forrester, Jackie Collins, Larry Kirshbaum, Leonard Shatzkin, Macmillan, Scribner Bookstore, Simon & Schuster, Sterling, Tim Ferriss, Time Warner Books

Which flies the coop first? the chicken or the egg?

June 19, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

There are lessons that can be taught or learned in one segment of publishing that can then apply to another. Well over a decade ago, Mark Bide and I were discussing the business model for journals. The way it works is that the university pays the professors a salary and rewards them with promotions and […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Arthur Klebanoff, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Borders, Ereads, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jane Friedman, Kindle, Larry Kirshbaum, Mark Bide, Open Road, Richard Curtis, SparkNotes, Sterling

Amazon’s news of hiring Kirshbaum is a helluva start for BEA

May 23, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 19 Comments

Amazon dropped a shoe last week when they announced their new mystery imprint, Thomas & Mercer Books, and started signing authors, including self-publishing evangelist, Joe Konrath. Last night they dropped the other shoe, which turned out to be a very heavy boot. They signed former Time Warner Publishing (the company that is now Hachette Book […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookish, Hachette Book Group, Joe Konrath, Larry Kirshbaum, Macmillan, Sterling, Thomas & Mercer, Time Warner Publishing

The old publishing value chain got twisted a bit last week

May 8, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

Although the value chain in trade publishing for the last century has, for the most part, kept retailers between publishers and consumers and kept publishers between retailers and authors, that has never been 100% true. Doubleday covered the whole value chain in the 1950s, when it not only owned the Doubleday Book Shops and the […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, Bookish, Borders, Brentano's, Copia, David Houle, Doubleday, Doubleday Book Shops, Evolution Shift, F+W Media, GoodReads, Google, Hachette, Holtzbrinck, Houghton Harcourt, Ingram, Kindle, Kobo, Library Thing, Literary Guild, Macmillan, Montlake Romances, Penguin, Pub It, Simon & Schuster, Sterling, The Shift Age, Tor.com, Walden

What will be the big digital issues in January 2011?

May 16, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

I have found a way to describe the difference between the Digital Book World conference we organize for F+W Media and the O’Reilly conference Tools of Change which I believe is accurate and is certainly not intended to be a pejorative description of  Tools of Change. I go to TOC and I find it very valuable, but different […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: App Store, B&N, B&T, Blio, Content Reserve, Copia, Disney, F+W Media, iBooks, Ingram Digital, Ingram Publisher Services, J. A. Konrath, Jane Friedman, Kindle, LibreDigital, NBN, Nook, O'Reilly, Open Road, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Perseus, Pixiq, Poetry Speaks, Safari, Sony, Sterling, Tools of Change

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