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The dominance of Amazon needs to be addressed but it is far more attributable to natural circumstances than it is anybody’s fault

May 7, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

As things evolve in an era of rapid change, it is human nature to assign credit or blame for any drastic alterations in circumstances. And so we have the book business, with its last remaining chain store behemoth, Barnes & Noble, in a period of obvious decline and presenting the clear possibility that the book […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Crown Books, David Leonhardt, Facebook, Google, I2S2, Ingram, Oren Teicher, The New York Times, US Department of Justice

The latest marketplace data would seem to say publishers are as strong as ever

October 18, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 61 Comments

This post began being written a couple of weeks ago when I recalled some specific misplaced expectations I had for the self-publishing revolution and started to ponder why things happened the way they did in recent years. It turns out a big part of the answer I was looking for provides clarity that extends far […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Wool", Amanda Hocking, Amazon, Author Earnings, Avon, Barnes & Noble, Bob Mayer, Borders, Boston Bruins, Boston Globe, Bruce Harris, Byliner, Data Guy, Diversion Books, Hearst, Hugh Howey, Ingram, Ingram Spark, Macmillan, Meredith, Michael Cader, Morrow, Nathan Myhrvold, NBC, Norton, Politico, Pronoun, Publishing Perspectives, Random House, Rodale, Scott Waxman, Simon & Schuster, Sterling Publishing, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vook, Whitey Bulger

Headliners galore will address Digital Book World 2015

December 18, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

Half of Digital Book World is delivered to the entire audience from the Main Stage. The speakers for 2015 comprise the most illustrious group we have ever had. The headine is definitely that we have managed to corral both Amazon and Apple speakers for our main stage — a feat we don’t believe any other […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It", "Put Me in the Story", "The Innovators", Alloy, Amazon, Amplify, Apple, Atria, Bit.ly, Brian Murray, Content Marketing Institute, David Nussbaum, Google, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Hilary Mason, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I See Me, iBookstore, James Robinson, Joe Pulizzi, Jonathan Nowell, Judith Curr, Keith Moerer, Ken Auletta, Kickstarter, Launch Kids, Linda Zecher, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners International, Matthew Greenfield, Michael Cader, Nielsen Book, Paper Lantern Lit, Rethink Education, Rick Chapman, Russ Grandinetti, S&S, Seth Godin, Sourcebooks, Speakaboos, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Thomas Nelson, Walter Isaacson, Wattpad

The support infrastructure for entities to publish is growing but the most important piece may not yet be provided

November 11, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

I remember a song lyric from the early 70s for which the opening line was: “we don’t need more sailors, we need a captain”. (I can’t find the reference in LyricFind and I don’t remember the name of the band.) That song could be about the new publishing that is arising from the phenomenon of […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling Tagged With: Amazon, atomization, BiblioCrunch, Blurb, Bruce Harris, Content Marketing Institute, ePubDirect, Fast Company, Forbes, Frederator Studios, Ingram, James Robinson, Joe Pulizzi, Lulu, Matt Cavner, Michael Cader, Molly Barton, Nathan Mhyrvold, OverDrive, Oyster, Richard Nash, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd, The Associated Press, The New York Times, Thought Catalog, unbundling, US News & World Report

Krugman cites a fact that fit what I posited as a theory

October 20, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 105 Comments

In a Shatzkin Files blog about the Amazon-Hachette dispute that I posted on July 15, I wrote this: The “damage” to society that results from results being gamed in fiction is probably minimal, and restricted to Amazon promoting either its own published titles, its favorite self-published authors, and books from other publishers that have paid […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Sons of Wichita", "The Way Forward", Daniel Schulman, Hachette, Koch brothers, Michael Tamblyn, Paul Krugman, Paul Ryan, The New York Times

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