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The evolving role of agents

June 29, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 14 Comments

Because of a couple of panels I spoke on last spring and because of the development of FiledBy, I have had more and more conversations lately with agents. They are part of the General Trade Publishing ecosystem. So their lives are getting more difficult and more complicated, like everybody else’s in Book Valley. The agents’ […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Audible, Bob Miller, Brilliance, Carolyn Pittis, Ereads, Harper Studio, John Sargent, Richard Curtis, Roger Cooper, Tantor Media, Vanguard

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

Ebook complexity: good news for publishers

June 3, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

We are working on a project in this office to “grid” the ebook world. We’ll have a hard time doing it in fewer than four dimensions. What we see as “major headings” are: 1) hardware/readingdevices, 2) software/platforms, 3) file formats, and 4) ebook retailers. And after we get that sorted out, we’ll start thinking about […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BookSurge, Content Reserve, Cool-er Reader, Google, Indigo, Ingram, Kindle, Lulu, Shortcovers, Smashwords

Ideas triggered by Amazon buying Lexcycle

April 28, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 24 Comments

The acquisition of Lexcycle by Amazon sure got all the digerati’s creative juices flowing. What is becoming increasingly clear is that general trade publishers have a card to play here that the niche publishers can only join in on: creating a collectively-owned ebook “store” that can provide an economic baseline for the emerging ebook marketplace. […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Coursesmart, Filedby.com, GoodReads, Google, Lexcycle, LibraryThing, Michael Cairns, Shelfari, Smashwords

Music stories: a bit about The Drongos

March 20, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 39 Comments

My wife, Martha Moran, and I managed a rock and roll band 25 years ago. They were called The Drongos. They were four intrepid young New Zealanders who had come to America with an itinerant theatrical troupe and stayed when the itinerants moved on. They made pretty close to a living playing on New York […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Alice Barrett, Jean McAllister, Martha Moran, Richard Kennedy, Stanley John Mitchell, The Drongos, Tony McMaster

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