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Amazon has done so many smart things that some of the best ones get forgotten

March 9, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

There's quite a bit of publishing about publishing going on in the next few weeks. British academic John B. Thompson has written a solid scholarly history of book publishing in the past quarter century or so called "Book Wars" that will publish … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Behemoth, "Book Wars", "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know", "The Family Business", Amazon Rising", Baker & Taylor, I2S2, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, iPad, Jeff Bezos, John B. Thompson, Keel Hunt, Kindle, Nook, Robert Paris Riger, Robin Gaster, Rocket Book, Softbook, Sony Reader, West Margin Books

Remembering Jim Haynes, the man with more friends than anybody else

January 25, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

I met Jim Haynes at the first Frankfurt Book Fair I attended, in 1976. I would see him every year when I went back to Frankfurt and any other time I was in Paris, where Jim lived. I think I was one of his ten or fifteen thousand closest … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Conferences, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Publishing History Tagged With: Bob Pettit, Ediburgh Arts Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Frankfurt Book Fair, Jesper Haynes, Jim Haynes, John Lennon, Matisse's atelier, Yoko Ono

Thoughts about what Covid and 2020 mean for book publishing

January 7, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

A team of independent publishing consultants with broad and deep experience in the industry have produced an excellent report on the effects of the past year's pandemic on the book publishing business called "COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Amazon, bookshop.org, Cliff Guren, Costco, Covid pandemic, COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and Insights for 2021, Ingram, Print-On-Demand, Steven Sieck, Target, Thad McIlroy, Walmart

Introducing ClimateChangeResources.org, organizing and contextualizing the challenge we all face

November 15, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

It was in a blog post in February of 2017 that I first wrote about Climate Change Resources, the passion project that I and Lena Tabori, another publishing lifer, were building to fight the human-caused proliferation of CO2 that is threatening us … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Climate Change, New Models Tagged With: Climate Change Resources, climatechangeresources.org, IPCC, Joel Stromberg, John Englander, Juliana v US, Lena Tabori, Mary Tiegreen, NCA

The end of the general trade publishing concept

October 19, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

My brilliant friend Joe Esposito has written a piece to explain why Penguin Random House would want to acquire Simon & Schuster.  I have also been thinking about why PRH, or any of the other three of the "Big Five", would want to acquire S&S. … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Big Five, Dan Gerstein, Gotham Publishing Solutions, Hachette, HarperCollins, Howtopublishbooks.com, Ingram, IngramSpark, Joe Esposito, John Sargent, Julie Blattberg, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, PRH, Robin Cutler, Simon & Schuster, Tom McCormack

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