La Bene Vita

PUBLISHING MARKET RESEARCH

I published this link in my previous post:

ARTICLE: When eBooks attack, mass paperbacks die  

But then I continued to research the publishing market. {e:bugeyes}

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000664761
Did you know that Amazon is now a "traditional" publisher? Not only that, Amazon apparently has the big six (and other smaller publishers) worried.

Publishers Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article...

CNN Money: http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/27/technology/amazon_publishing/index.htm

NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-p...

They're like the WalMart of the publishing industry. Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives, said in the NY Times article above, “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader. Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.”

And more about the future of print versus eBooks:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891561-264/new_statistics_model_for_book.h...
Growth of Trade eBook sales.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/doc/can-print-on-demand-save-the-book-industry/2087
An article about a print-on-demand machine in bookstores for titles not in inventory (DPR: Digital-to-Print at Retail)

http://www.economist.com/node/21528628
Commentary about what publishers need to do to survive in the eBook era.

And just for fun:

http://www.parapublishing.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm
Fascinating general statistics about publishing.