The Book BusinessPub Date : 2019-06-16DOI: 10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0007
Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger
{"title":"Bookselling in the Twenty-First Century—Amazon.com","authors":"Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"How has Amazon influenced publishing?\u0000 Although Amazon began identifying itself as “earth’s biggest bookstore” and pretty much only sold books for the first few years of its existence, it has clearly outgrown its roots. Nevertheless, for obvious reasons given our focus in this book,...","PeriodicalId":135916,"journal":{"name":"The Book Business","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124804821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Book BusinessPub Date : 2019-06-16DOI: 10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0002
Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger
{"title":"From Idea to Book","authors":"Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"What are agents and what do they do?\u0000 Agents, also sometimes called “literary agents,” in the book business represent authors in their business interactions with publishers. The biggest publishers get nearly all their books through agents, so agents are effectively both scouts for new...","PeriodicalId":135916,"journal":{"name":"The Book Business","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126788138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Book BusinessPub Date : 2019-06-16DOI: 10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0009
Mike Shatzkin, Robert Paris Riger
{"title":"Audiobooks","authors":"Mike Shatzkin, Robert Paris Riger","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"What is the current landscape of audiobook publishing?\u0000 Audiobooks, whose first organized venture in the form of recordings for the blind came at the same time as mass-market paperbacks, are now coming into their own as the fastest growing segment of trade publishing, after...","PeriodicalId":135916,"journal":{"name":"The Book Business","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132974450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Book BusinessPub Date : 2019-06-16DOI: 10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0003
Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger
{"title":"Bookselling, Marketing, and Sales","authors":"Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"How does a book go from a publisher to a reader?\u0000 Trade publishers, who are the biggest, the best known, and the focus of this book, are called that because they sell primarily through the book “trade,” which is bookstores, libraries, and the wholesalers—intermediaries...","PeriodicalId":135916,"journal":{"name":"The Book Business","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130518716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Book BusinessPub Date : 2019-06-16DOI: 10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0008
Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger
{"title":"Children’s and Young Adult (YA) Publishing","authors":"Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Why is children’s book publishing so often viewed as a world apart from adult publishing?\u0000 You can tell if someone doesn’t work in children’s publishing if she can’t tell you the difference between the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. The American Library Association (ALA) awards...","PeriodicalId":135916,"journal":{"name":"The Book Business","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130206863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Book BusinessPub Date : 2019-06-16DOI: 10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0004
Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger
{"title":"Some Publishing History","authors":"Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"When were today’s major publishing houses founded?\u0000 Although it was evolving, the trade book publishing business had remained largely the same for the first hundred years or so of the republic, until about a fifty-year period starting with the last quarter of the nineteenth...","PeriodicalId":135916,"journal":{"name":"The Book Business","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114579080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Book BusinessPub Date : 2019-06-16DOI: 10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0006
Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger
{"title":"The Book Publishing Business Model","authors":"Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"How do trade publishers make money?\u0000 Take, as an almost absurd example of this business model, the companies that merged in 2013 to become Penguin Random House (PRH)—in 2016 they are said by Publishers Weekly to have had €3.7 billion in revenues,...","PeriodicalId":135916,"journal":{"name":"The Book Business","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126647666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Book BusinessPub Date : 2019-06-16DOI: 10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0010
Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger
{"title":"The Future of Publishing","authors":"Mike Shatzkin, R. Riger","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"What is the impact of nontraditional sales on the trade book industry?\u0000 This book has focused on how traditional trade publishing operates today within the confines of the historical functions of publishing companies. We’ve addressed the growth of e-book publishing by trade publishers and...","PeriodicalId":135916,"journal":{"name":"The Book Business","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128953402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Book BusinessPub Date : 2019-05-31DOI: 10.29085/9781783304134.031
Mike Shatzkin, Robert Paris Riger
{"title":"E-Books","authors":"Mike Shatzkin, Robert Paris Riger","doi":"10.29085/9781783304134.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783304134.031","url":null,"abstract":"Although much of the e-book market and world is in flux, one thing is safe to say: the success of e-books is difficult for publishers and resellers to predict, and it has been from the beginning. If there is one thing the publishing establishment...","PeriodicalId":135916,"journal":{"name":"The Book Business","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127924131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Book BusinessPub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0001
Mike Shatzkin, Paris Riger Robert
{"title":"The Global Book Business","authors":"Mike Shatzkin, Paris Riger Robert","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190628031.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"What are the various segments within the book business and how do they differ?\u0000 The “book business” referred to in the title of this book is largely the trade book business in the United States. It seemed worth putting this segment of the overall...","PeriodicalId":135916,"journal":{"name":"The Book Business","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134443415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}