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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

DBW lets us look at ebook bestsellers by price, and things are revealed

August 20, 2012 by Jess 17 Comments

Digital Book World unveiled its new ebook bestseller lists this morning. They put this effort together — I program the annual January conference for them; this work has almost nothing to do with me (although I’m over-generously credited with having provided “guidance”) — over the past couple of months working with Dan Lubart. Lubart owns […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Marriage Bargain", Barnes & Noble, Codex Group, Colleen Hoover, Dan Lubart, DBW, Digital Book World, Entangled Publishing, Hachette, HarperCollins, iobyte, Jane Litte, Jim Hilt, Kensington, Kobo, Macmillan, Nook, NY Times, Penguin, Peter Hildick-Smith, Publishers Launch Frankfurt, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Soho, Theresa Horner, USA Today, Waterstone's, WH Smiths

Publishers Launch conference at BEA will cover a wide range of digital change issues

May 29, 2012 by Jess 7 Comments

What are the important topics to discuss today concerning publishing and digital change? I think we’ve got most of them covered at Publishers Launch BEA, the one-day conference we’ll stage at the Javits Center next Monday, June 4. Our all-day event has sixteen distinct presentations and panels. There may be a topic of interest to […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "What Technology Wants", Aerbooks, Amanda Close, Baker & Taylor, Blanca Rosa Roca, Bowker, Carolyn Pittis, Chris Bauerle, Chris Dufault, Citia, cloud services, Codex, Comixology, Copyright Clearance Center, Curtis Brown, Dan Vidra, David Cully, David Steinberger, David Wilk, David Wolfson, F+W Media, Fritz Foy, Hachette Book Group USA, HarperCollins, Hugh McGuire, Ingram Content Group, Jack Perry, Javier Celaya, Jean Naggar Agency, Jennifer Weltz, Joe Mangan, Kelly Gallagher, Ken Michaels, Kevin Kelly, Kindle, Kobo, Laura Daily, Laura Hazard Owen, Linda Holliday, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Michael Tamblyn, Molly Barton, PaidContent, Patricia Arancibia, Penguin, Perseus, Peter Hildick-Smith, Phil Ollila, Pressbooks, Publishers Lunch, Publishing in the Cloud, Random House, Rick Joyce, Ron Martinez, SaaS, Sara Domville, Scott Stein, Semi-Linear, Simon & Schuster, Simon Lipskar, Sourcebooks, textr, Tim Knowlton, Tor.com, USA Today, Waterstone's, Writer's House

Publishers better start using their scale to price better, and soon!

March 8, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 49 Comments

It was just about two years ago that I appeared on a panel at a meeting of agents with, among others, Macmillan CEO John Sargent and Sargent made the point that maintaining ebook pricing and margins was one of the critical challenges facing publishers. Ebook sales were still hovering around one percent of the business. […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Christopher Smith, CNET, Dave Slusher, J. A. Konrath, John Sargent, Macmillan, Neal Goff, Random House, Stephen King, The New York Times, USA Today

From some perspectives, we are tipping right now and publishers’ metrics will show it

February 22, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 85 Comments

Sometimes, and it would seem quite often these days, the future comes faster than you expected it. Followers of this blog, and of my speeches before there was a blog (this one’s from 2001!), know I’ve long been expecting ebook reading to supplant print book reading for many people. I’ve been wrong about the timing. […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, BookScan, Borders, Dominique Raccah, Michael Cader, New York Times, Publishers Lunch, Sourcebooks, USA Today

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