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Len Shatzkin and the breaking of a publishing color line

April 2, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

There was a lot of lore in our family but one of my favorite bits of it was my father’s great pride at having hired the first two black office workers at Doubleday in the 1950s. This was particularly cheeky for the guy who was the only Jew in top management ranks. The way I […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Publishing History Tagged With: Advise and Consent, Branch Rickey, Charles Harris, Ed Simmons, Eleanor Shatzkin, Jackie Robinson, John Sargent, Karen Shatzkin, Leonard Shatzkin, Nance Shatzkin, Nelson Doubleday, Ray Rivera, The Urban League

Second old publishing story: the first great book supply chain tech disruption

March 7, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

Before the early 1970s, wholesalers to the trade were local and carried a relatively small number of titles. Their main job was to back up bestsellers and local booksellers went direct to the publishers for just about everything else. Baker & Taylor was national, but focused on the library market. And Ingram was a small […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: B. Dalton, Baker & Taylor, Bell & Howell, Harry Hoffman, Ingram, Michael Zibart

First old publishing story: Brentano’s in 1962

February 28, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

My first real “job” in publishing was working as a sales clerk at Brentano’s flagship bookstore on 5th Avenue in the summer of 1962. I was deployed to the paperback department, which had opened only weeks before. In those days, almost all real consumer paperbacks were “mass-market”, rack-sized paperbacks. And almost all of what we […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, Chuckles, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Brentano's, John Dos Passos, Mayor Wagner, paperbacks 1962

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