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Pete Nikolai
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"Thanks for reporting the spam, Pete. We've been working over the past few days to get rid of spam. I've banned the offending members for spam and have adjusted the controls so that new members need to be approved. Terribly sorry about the…"
Oct 14, 2010
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Apr 19, 2010
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Part 7/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Indstury that's Changing"

"More Takeaways: Publishers seem to feel that it is time to confront Amazon and other ebook retailers now over pricing rather than waiting until the ebook business is too big and too established; publishers costs to create and distribute an ebook are…"
Dec 22, 2009
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Part 7/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Indstury that's Changing"

"***this one downloads much slower than the other six and I was not patient enough to make it past the first couple of minutes*** Takeaways: Amazon has actually been subsidizing the Kindle customer's purchases by pricing many titles lower than…"
Dec 22, 2009
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Part 6/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Industry that's Changing"

"Takeaways: digital content is free if the consumer decides they want to take it; magazines, newspapers, and record companies insisted on selling products that aggregated considerably more content than the consumer wanted to buy (consumer wanted one…"
Dec 22, 2009
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Part 5/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Industry that's Changing"

"Takeaways: vertical community organizers do more than offer products on a particular subject--they focus on getting people to join the community and maximizing the benefits to the members even if that means offering competitors' products; those…"
Dec 22, 2009
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Part 4/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Industry that's Changing"

"Takeaways: The ebook edition on a major fiction book is currently ~ 5% of the hardcover units, but ebooks continue to grow by double digits (or more). Eventually authors may try to retain ebook rights. Publishers are currently indicating that they…"
Dec 18, 2009
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Part 3/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Industry that's Changing"

"Takeaways: Technology is making it easy to augment words on the page/screen. TBD: the percent of readers who will prefer augmented/multimedia books and the percent who will prefer text only. Prior to print-on-demand and extensive used book sales,…"
Dec 18, 2009
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Part 2/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Industry that's Changing"

"Takeaways: Print-on-demand and short-run printing cause the number of competitive products to multiply. Physical bookstores can only carry 100,000 titles or less. Google has over 10,000,000 books in their database. Each book competes with hundreds…"
Dec 17, 2009
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Part 1/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Industry That's Changing"

"Takeaways: Most media companies are transitioning from format-specific to multimedia and from horizontal (mass media covering all subjects for all people) to vertical (narrow subject coverage for interested niche of consumers) and from…"
Dec 17, 2009
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Seth Godin: Free Books, Literary Fiction

"Takeaways: With so much free stuff, the benefit to the user has to be substantial to gather attention. The bands that give away the most music make the most money. Success comes from establishing a connection with the users."
Dec 2, 2009
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Seth Godin: "Rethinking the Publishing Industry" Pt. 3/3 (9/28/09)

"Takeaways: Whoever owns the asset can create scarcity and maximize profit. Publishers now struggle to create scarcity. Readers want selection in the topics they prefer. Publishers should capture a significant number of readers and then create…"
Dec 2, 2009
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Seth Godin: "Rethinking the Publishing Industry" Pt. 2/3 (9/28/09)

"Takeaways: Returns, shelf space, advances, and low royalties probably will become rare. Imprints don't matter to the reader. Publishers currently do not contribute much value. They did in the past and have the opportunity to do so in the…"
Dec 2, 2009
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Seth Godin: "Rethinking the Publishing Industry" Pt. 1/3 (9/28/09)

"Takeaways: Technology tends to destroy businesses/industries and replace them rather than making them better or just making our jobs easier. Publishers are not in the printing business; they are in the business of finding, selecting, supporting, and…"
Dec 2, 2009
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Michael Tamblyn of Shortcovers - Publishing Point Perspectives - November 2009

"Takeaways: When given the choice, consumers tend to select traditional long form books over shorter content (blogs, articles, chapters, etc.) to read on their devices. Shortcovers' ebook consumers have been a little younger than the typical…"
Nov 24, 2009
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CEO of Stanza Reader, Neelan Choksi - Publishing Point Perspectives - November 2009

"Takeaways: ebook prices will vary based on category; once ebook retailers move out of launch phase they will probably use a demand curve to select the appropriate price to maximize profit; being owned by Amazon has allowed Lexcycle to focus more on…"
Nov 18, 2009

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Nashville
What type of organization do you work for (primarily)?
book publisher
Name of Company or Organization
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Job Title/Occupation
Director of Backlist Development & Publishing Process
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PFNikolai

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At 10:38am on October 14, 2010, Susan V. Danziger said…
Thanks for reporting the spam, Pete. We've been working over the past few days to get rid of spam. I've banned the offending members for spam and have adjusted the controls so that new members need to be approved. Terribly sorry about the inconvenience.
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