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Unbundling in the book business: the fourth big trend

May 13, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

A few weeks ago, I wrote that there are three big forces driving the future of publishing: scale, verticalization, and atomization. I was wrong. I had forgotten my own blogpost from last September when I identified another trend that belongs with the first three: “unbundling”. The book business, in the trade segment I follow most […]

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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 […]

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