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Auletta’s New Yorker piece is good orientation for thinking about the DoJ case

June 25, 2012 by Jess 38 Comments

Writing about the lawsuit the DoJ has instituted against Apple and five leading publishers is very hard. It’s a big issue and doing it justice requires navigating two very large and complex bodies of knowledge: anti-trust law and the trade book publishing business. Whenever I write about it, I feel handicapped because I don’t know […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Politics, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Paper Trail", Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Color Nook, David Young, DOJ, Facebook, Google, Hachette USA, iBookstore, Ken Auletta, Kindle, Kobo, Markus Dohle, Microsoft, Nook, Random House, Simon Lipskar, The New Yorker, United States Department of Justice

A Mother’s Day Tribute to My Mom: Elky Shatzkin

May 8, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 24 Comments

I’ve written several times about my father’s life in the book business, which shaped quite a few careers, including mine. Here’s one. Andanother. This post, for Mother’s Day weekend, is about my father’s other great passion: my mother. Eleanor Oshry Shatzkin — Elky to everybody who knew her — was the first woman to graduate from the […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Politics Tagged With: Bill Porter, Carnegie Tartan, Carnegie Tech, Congressman John Hall, Croton Shakespeare Festival, Elky Shatzkin, J.K. Lasser & Company, Kaufman's Department Store, Len Shatzkin, Longacre Press, Manhattan Project, Montefiore Hospital, Peter Drucker, Picker, Picker X-Ray Corporation, Sam Oshry, Two Continents, Young & Rubicam

Not all the victims of Hitler died before he did

October 11, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

To regular readers of this blog: I know I haven’t posted much lately, and this post has almost nothing to do with publishing (although there’s a book link in it!) I’m in London on my way to the Frankfurt Book Fair as I write it. I will resume more regular contributions to the dialogue about […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Politics Tagged With: Bernard Goldstein, Elsa Shatzkin Ilse Shatzkin, Helen Shatzkin, Jewish Socialist Bund, John Hersey, Julek Shatzkin, Leonard Shatzkin, Marek Edelman, Senator Irving Ives, Sock Shatzkin, The Stars Bear Witness, The Wall, Tony Klein, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Google settlement opponents need to be careful how they win

July 13, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

The debate about the Google settlement, like most of any consequence or intellectual interest (what the government should do about health care or energy, for example) actually engages a wider range of knowledge than most of us have. But we feel comfortable having an opinion about what we should do about health care or energy […]

Filed Under: New Models, Politics, Publishing, Uncategorized Tagged With: energy policy, Google settlement, health care policy

Verticalization in action

July 2, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

Michael Wolff has written in Vanity Fair about Politico, which demonstrates many of the priciples of verticalization that I have written about often on this blog. He begins with a summary of a startlingly prescient piece Michael Crichton wrote in the fourth issue of Wired Magazine. Wolff writes: “In the fourth issue of Wired magazine, in […]

Filed Under: New Models, Politics, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Michael Wolff, Politico, Vanity Fair

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