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Audiobooks
Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
in The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the current landscape of audiobook publishing?
Audiobooks, whose first organized venture in the form of recordings for the blind came at the same time as mass-market ...
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The Book Publishing Business Model
Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
in The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How do trade publishers make money?
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 ...
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Bookselling in the Twenty-First Century—Amazon.com
Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
in The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How has Amazon influenced publishing?
Although Amazon began identifying itself as “earth’s biggest bookstore” and pretty much only sold books for the first few years of its ...
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Bookselling, Marketing, and Sales: Getting the Book to the Reader
Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
in The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How does a book go from a publisher to a reader?
Trade publishers, who are the biggest, the best known, and the focus of this book, are called that because they sell primarily ...
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Children’s and Young Adult (YA) Publishing
Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
in The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why is children’s book publishing so often viewed as a world apart from adult publishing?
You can tell if someone doesn’t work in children’s publishing if she can’t tell you the ...
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E-Books
Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
in The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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 ...
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From Idea to Book
Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
in The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are agents and what do they do?
Agents, also sometimes called “literary agents,” in the book business represent authors in their business interactions with publishers. The ...
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The Future of Publishing
Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
in The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the impact of nontraditional sales on the trade book industry?
This book has focused on how traditional trade publishing operates today within the confines of the ...
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The Global Book Business
Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
in The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the various segments within the book business and how do they differ?
The “book business” referred to in the title of this book is largely the trade book business in the ...
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Some Publishing History
Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
in The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
When were today’s major publishing houses founded?
Although it was evolving, the trade book publishing business had remained largely the same for the first hundred years or so of ...
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