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The author-publisher deal needs tweaking

March 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

I just want to riff briefly on a challenge; I am still thinking about what might be a solution, or even an approach to a solution. Here’s the challenge. We need some creative dealmaking between authors and publishers. The partnership is getting more complicated. Publishers (will always) need authors and (most) authors (still) need publishers. […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: author contracts, export royalties, royalties

Imprints in the 21st Century

March 6, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 17 Comments

HarperCollins announced a new imprint yesterday. And once again, we see no evidence that the big general trade publishers understand how to attack their new challenges in the 21st century. The difficulty for publishers, as readers of mine know, because I’ve written and spoken about it repeatedly, is that the “horizontal” infrastructure that has supported […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Vertical

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