Kaplan: Publishers Should Diversify Distribution (Video)
By most reports, the vast majority of print- and e-books in the U.S. are sold by two retailers: Amazon and Barnes & Noble. If you’re a book publisher, this makes your life both easy and hard.
Easy in that you have to deal with fewer direct customers, which theoretically means less staff and fewer headaches.
Hard in that you have to worry about what happens if one of those retailers goes out of business or changes its business terms in a way that’s disadvantageous to you.
According to Mitchell Kaplan, owner of the Books & Books chain of bookstores, publishers should diversify their distribution, especially when it comes to print and digital.
“Any publisher or anyone within this industry would be foolish to put all their eggs in just one of those channels, baskets,” he said.
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