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Further ruminations about the complex notion of scale in publishing

May 23, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Our May 29 conference is built around the theme of “scale” in our business, which means something different than it did a very short time ago. Usually “using scale” means “employing the competitive advantages of size” but it can also be leveraging efficiency; the key beneficial characteristic of scale is that unit costs decline with […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Vertical Tagged With: "50 Shades of Gray", "Twilight", Alloy Entertainment, Amazon, Apple, Brian Murray, Chicago Tribune, F+W Media, fan fiction, Frederator, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harvard Common Press, Hay House, Ingram, Kindle Worlds, Penguin, Perseus, Pete McCarthy, Random House, Toronto Star, Vogue Knitting, Wharton

More on atomization: why the new publishers are coming

March 26, 2013 by Jess 38 Comments

The most recent post here laid out a future for trade publishing that will be less and less about traditional publishers and more and more about non-traditional publishers delivering books into the marketplace without the financing or “approval” of a profit-seeking publisher. That’s a radical change from the industry we’ve seen grow over the past […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: American Express Publishing, Atavist, Barry Diller, Brightline, Byliner, Chronicle of Higher Education, Conde Nast, Constellation, Cosmopolitan, Daily Beast, Diversion, Esquire, Frederator, Harlequin, Hearst, Ingram, INscribe, Jeremy Greenfield, Kindle, NBC News, New York Times, Newsweek, Open Road, Perseus, Playboy, Provincetown Public LIbrary, Rosetta Books, Saturday Evening Post, Scientific American, TED, The Atlantic, Toronto Star, US Army, USA Today, USA Tomorrow, Vook, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Wharton Business School, Xiamen Blackbird Cartoon Company

Atomization: publishing as a function rather than an industry

March 19, 2013 by Jess 57 Comments

The announcement of what amounts to the first book publishing program spawned by Google demonstrates a paradigm we’re seeing repeatedly. It suggests a sweeping change in publishing from how we’ve known it. The bottom line is that most people employed publishing books perhaps as soon as 10 years from now won’t be working for publishing […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: "Wool", Amazon, atomization, Dan Lubart, David Worlock, DBW, Facebook, Google, Hugh Howey, Ingram, iobyte, Kristin Nelson, NBC, New York Times, Perseus, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Toronto Star, Twitter, verticaliation

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