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Literary agents and the changing world of trade publishing

November 14, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 32 Comments

who can see the digital book possibilities in every idea before you peddle it. I had a lunch conversation this week with three successful literary agents, who will remain anonymous for this post. They wanted to talk about the panel we’re having at Digital Book World called “The Changing Author-Agent Relationship: How Will It Affect the […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: AAR, Author Solutions, Bookmasters, Hay House, lulu.com, Richard Curtis, Smashwords, Ted Hill, Writer's Digest Conference

The new Thomas Nelson self-publishing initiative; more questions than answers

October 14, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

The announcement was made earlier this week through the Wall Street Journal and the blog of the publisher’s CEO, Michael Hyatt, that one of the giants of Christian publishing, Thomas Nelson, will be publishing a new list under an imprint to be called WestBow Press. The books will come from Author Solutions, the provider of […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Author Solutions, Michael Hyatt, Thomas Nelson, WestBow Press

What advice do you give a writer?

August 25, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

Because I am giving a keynote talk at the Writer’s Digest Conference in New York on September 18, I am thinking about “what do you tell a writer about digital change in publishing?” The view of the media world that I proselytize, which is that it is “going vertical”, is hard to accept if you […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: AuthorHouse, Facebook, Filedby, LinkedIn, PublishersMarketplace, Scribd, Smashwords, Twitter, Writer's Digest Conference

More evidence that the general trade business is getting harder

August 14, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

The shift from horizontal paths to audiences to vertical ones is a hard concept for people who have grown up in book publishing to accept. Most resistant, judging from the questions I get when I talk to book publishing audiences, are those who see book publishing as being about “writerly” books: “non-genre” fiction, belles lettres, […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Boyd Tonkin, Huffington Post, Tom Matlack

Ebook growth explosive; serious disruptions around the corner

August 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 42 Comments

The news about trade ebook sales growth continues apace. The IDPF has just said that sales in June 2009 were up 136% over June a year ago. Calendar year sales to date are up about 150% over 2008. Anecdotal information from big trade houses suggests that ebook sales are approaching 3% of total sales. But […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barbara Kingsolver, Barnes & Noble, Content Reserve, Dan Brown, E.L. Doctorow, IDPF, Indigo, John Irving, Jon Krakauer, Kindle, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Attwood, Michael Crichton, Pat Conroy, Philip Roth, Random House, Scribd, Shortcovers, Smashwords, Sony Reader

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