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VIDEO: Planning for a Long Career in an Industry That’s Changing

December 17, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Mike’s speech to a packed house at Hachette, as part of a lunchtime lecture series known as The Publishing Point. Delivering what proved to be a thought-provoking and farsighted view of the future of the book industry, Mike had some clear advice for those planning a long career in publishing: the companies that will succeed will be those that focus on building compelling content for well-defined “vertical communities.”

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Blio, blog, book clubs, Book of the Month, BookScan, Cathy's Book, Daily Lit, dedicated device, eBooks, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, iPhone, Kindle, Kirkus, Macmillan, Penguin, Perseus, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, television, The Publishing Point, verticle

Stay Ahead of the Shift: What Publishers Can Do to Flourish in a Community-Centric Web World

May 29, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

Speech given at BEA 2009. Focusing on the changes that will take place in publishing in the next 20 years. With a look back to the last 20 years, we are able to look forward and predict not only how publishing will be in the future, but also how information will be shared.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, B2B, B2C, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, BEA, BISAC code, blog, Bloomsbury, Borders, CD, cloud, craigslist, Crown, DRM, eBooks, epub, Facebook, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, horizontal, iPhone, iPod, Lulu, McGraw-Hill, metrics, Nelson, Ning, O-Reilly, Penguin, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Taylor & Francis, television, The Safari Bookshelf, Tools of Change, Twitter, verticle, Wikipedia, Wiley

Will You Recognize the Industry in 10 Years?

February 1, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

There is no doubt that the industry is in a period of significant transition. What can we expect 10 to 15 years from now?… Ten years from now, there will still be more books sold that were printed centrally and warehoused for sale than all other ways combined, but the end of that era will be in sight.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, cloud, Facebook, Google, Ingram, Outsell, Print-On-Demand, SharedBooks, Wikipedia, Wiley

A New Project: “StartwithXML, Why and How”

September 12, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

We have turned our attention to a problem we believe will occupy just about all publishers in the years to come, the opportunities and challenges presented by an XML workflow that starts with the author, or even before there is an author.

Why should you care? Because the world we live in is changing, and XML is the key to mastering the change

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: BISAC code, BISG, codeMantra, Daily Lit, eBooks, Jouve, Klopotek, LJNDawson, Magellan Media, McGraw-Hill, O'Reilly Media, Print-On-Demand, Publishing Dimensions, Rosetta Solutions, THA Consulting, XML

Where the Web Is Taking Us: The Inevitable Future and the Publisher’s Role In It

May 29, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The basic premise under which we’re operating here, I’ll summarize for those of you have never heard or read my work before, is that horizontal, format-specific media entities are oh, so 20th century, and won’t work very deep into the 21st. The reason for that is the web, which almost forces vertical organization. Horizontal presentations across subject matter — like CBS, Random House, or The New York Times — were the products of a capital-intensive, limited-distribution universe

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, AuthorHouse, B2B, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, BEA, Berrett-Koehler, Blackberry, blog, Borders, CBS, eBooks, Facebook, Google, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Hay House, horizontal, Ingram, iPhone, Kindle, LibraryThing, Lulu, McGraw-Hill, MySpace, Ning, O'Reilly Media, Print-On-Demand, Random House, RSS, Shelfari, Simon & Schuster, television, The Long Tail, Twitter, verticles, XML, YouTube

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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