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The “Big Change” era in trade book publishing ended about four years ago

July 11, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

Book publishing is still very much in a time of changing conditions and circumstances. There are a host of unknowables about the next several years that affect the shape of the industry and the strategies of all the players in it. But as publishers, retailers, libraries, and their ecosystem partners prepare for whatever is next, […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Electronic Publishing and Rights", Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Borders, CreateSpace, Edelweiss, Firebrand, Hachette, HarperCollins, iBookstore, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Kobo, Macintosh, Macmillan, NetGalley, Nook, Palm Pilot, Penguin, Publishers Weekly, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Steve Jobs, US Department of Justice, Voyager Expanded Book

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

Trying to explain publishing, or understand it, often remains a great challenge

October 31, 2012 by Jess 36 Comments

I went to the In Re Books conference at New York Law School last Friday and Saturday in hopes of curing some of my ignorance about the law and publishing. I learned some things, including the facts about a very interesting case involving a book publisher, the associations of publishers and booksellers, and a large […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "George Washington", "Merchants of Culture", :Professor John B. Thompson, Amazon, Bobbs-Merrill, Bobbs-Merrill versus Straus, In Re Books, James Gleick, Macy's, New York Law School, Ron Chernow, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

Competing with Amazon is not an easy thing to do

December 6, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 56 Comments

Amazon has three pretty powerful things going for them, and two are entirely their own doing. Number one: Amazon is, by far, the most book-industry-focused company that is actually active in endeavors much larger than the book business. Barnes & Noble and Ingram are just as focused, but they really don’t go beyond the book […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Apple, B&N, Bookish, Copia, Google, Kobo, Laura Hazard Owen, Steve Jobs

New ways to sell ebooks aren’t easy to implement

January 29, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 31 Comments

A simple and perfectly sensible suggestion emerged on the Brantley email list yesterday but the conversation around it showed that some stark realities about the book world have not yet been taken on board, even in very sophisticated circles (which this list is.) The list discussed a suggestion from librarian Josh Greenberg  that publishers take note of […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, CNN, Content Reserve, Ingram, Josh Greenberg, Kobo, Michael Cader, New York Times Bestseller List, Robert Gottlieb, Rocketbook, Softbook, Sprout, Steve Jobs, Wall Street Journal, Walter Mossberg

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