How has the advent of the ebook changed the distribution business?
Ebooks are having a profound impact. For wholesalers and distributors heavily invested in warehousing and logistics assets, if ebooks represent 20 percent of trade sales, then to maintain utilization rates, those wholesalers and distributors need to increase their title base by 20 percent a year to make up the shortfall. In the print business, systems have been developed to be able to send out one title feed to all trading partners through ONIX. In the Wild West of ebook distribution, the major resellers all have different metadata requirements, making it more challenging to get new titles loaded quickly and efficiently. Bookmasters is one of the few ebook distributors today that can nimbly do this because of our proprietary systems.
- Companies:
- Adobe
- BookMasters Inc.
- People:
- Larry Bennett
- Lynn Rosen