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Family businesses

June 24, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

The New York Times had a story on Tuesday morning about an advantage the Ford Motor Company had over its competitors at GM and Chrysler: it is still family-owned. As the Times explained, the family ownership was able to take a longer view than their competitors. In fact, we still don’t know whether the re-tooling […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Bookmasters, Borders, Chrysler, Dave Wurster, Doubleday, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Ford, GM, Ingram, John Ingram, John Wiley & Sons, Lightning Print, New York Times, Peter Wiley, Roger Straus, Scribners, Sterling

The “shift” speech

June 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

On May 28, I gave a speech called “Stay Ahead of the Shift: How Content-Centric Publishers Can Flourish in a Community-Centric Web World” at BookExpo America. From today (June 12) through Monday morning (June 15), we are able to show you the video of the speech (below). We have also put the slides and full […]

Filed Under: Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: BEA speech, SharedBook, Stay Ahead of the Shift

Director of “research” in a publishing house? Yes, more than 50 years ago!

June 8, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 17 Comments

Leonard Shatzkin was trained in printing. He left City College of NY a semester short of a degree in the social sciences to go to Carnegie Tech for three years to get a BS in Printing, which he received in 1941. His first job was as production manager at House Beautiful magazine when he and […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Charles Pitkin, Eleanor Oshry Shatzkin, George Blagowidow, Harold Guinzberg, House Beautiful, Leonard Shatzkin, Manhattan Project, Viking Press

How many more times for BEA?

May 26, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 30 Comments

I went to my first ABA (American Booksellers Association) Convention in Washington, DC in 1970. I had just written “The View from Section 111” for Prentice-Hall, about the New York Knicks’ first championship season, which was going to be published that October. Prentice-Hall threw a party for authors with a book coming that Fall, and […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: ABA, Barry Goldwater, BEA, Daisy Maryles, Jill Krementz, Prentice-Hall, Roysce Smith

Two more Len Shatzkin anecdotes on publishing practice

May 25, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

Elisabeth Sifton has a long and thoughtful piece in the current issue of The Nation. I disagree with the fundamental premise — that the woes of the book business are primarily due to bad decisions or judgments by the leaders of the business rather than large forces that are changing the ground on which the […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Elisabeth Sifton, Eudora Welty, Leonard Shatzkin, Lincoln Boehm, Sterling Publishing

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