It just has the unfortunate side effect of meaning that we don’t have an accurate picture of how large the ebook universe is, nor of how much of it is self-published. This is their right, by the way, no question. And major retailers of ebooks, including Amazon, aren’t reporting numbers to us, they’re holding such figures close to the chest as proprietary data. Many self-publishing authors and “entities” aren’t registering their output with the ISBNs Bowker sells and uses to track active titles directly. One of the perils of working from home is that sudden wildlife can render you into inexplicable silence during a phone call. As we’ve long pointed out in Ether-eal moments together, such estimations, despite the best efforts and capability of Bowker’s research folks, are highly suspect. He’s responding to the reports issued earlier this month from Bowker, indicating that some 12 percent of ebooks may be self-published. “Anybody Press” and “Any Organization Press” are Shatzkin’s aggregations of the rising force of entrepreneurial publishing.Īnybody Press is almost certainly growing faster in ebook sales than any of the other Big Six. So we might have Any Organization Press growing even faster in the next few years than Anybody Press has for the past few. …are more likely to be disruptive on a larger scale than indie authors have been so far. One concept he offers: “indie entities.” He writes that those entities: The Frisbees are in other hands and dogs’ mouths. This is the kind of walk through the park that gives you a little perspective. įeel like catching your digitally disrupted breath this week? Yeah, me, too. Shatzkin is giving us just the thing. My songsshowsbooksmessagesfriends are alllllll over the place too. The others have a lot of capabilities, but they’re in a race against time to develop additional distribution among them to match what PRH will be able to create or, alternatively, to change what they are from a general trade publisher to a multi-niche publisher with *strong* community capabilities that can be leveraged for other business models. Prompted by Perry to talk about the merging Penguin Random House (PRH), which Perry sees as having a bright future, Shatzkin writes:

Perry there in a comment on Shatzkin’s article, Anybody Press is the new member of the Big Six (for ebooks, at least). Mike Shatzkin, longtime senior-statesman consultant to the industry! the industry! is answering reader Jack W.

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