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The digital future still is a mystery if you don’t publish “immersive reading”

January 4, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

I have made previous mention of my notion that what has been one very cohesive trade book industry would “trifurcate”: break into at least three distinct businesses: 1) books that are straight narrative text intended for immersive reading; 2) adult books that are not straight text, either very chunkable (like cookbooks or travel books) or […]

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Children’s books: the new value chain is a work-in-progress

September 11, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

It occurred to us about a year ago that the children’s book business was wide open for disruption from new players outside the publishing business. Already, two of the companies we mentioned in a post back then about the new entrants that might be the actual instruments of disruption have linked up with established publishers. That […]

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