It is no surprise that the public remarks at Frankfurt by Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle and Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy contain gems worth pondering. Book publishing has been fortunate to have really smart people leading the … [Continue reading]
Amazon and the future of physical retail
There are two parallel conversations about the future of retail that are quite active. One is within the book business and it centers around what the future will be -- and will there be one? -- for Barnes & Noble. The other one is about the … [Continue reading]
Pointing to two posts all or largely mine that are not on this site
Readers of The Shatzkin Files might be interested in two current posts in other places. One carries my byline and is not about publishing. The other is an extensive interview with me about "what if Barnes & Noble disappeared?" The Barnes & … [Continue reading]
Are the tech giants too big to be good partners for book publishing?
An online discussion forum that includes publishers and librarians and tech people usually sends me several emails a day. About 10 days ago, a conversation evolved about Google Book Search and the Google Library Project, two initiatives by the search … [Continue reading]
Strategies to cut overheads in a shrinking book business make a lot of sense
An inexorable reality of today's commercial book publishing world is that it is shrinking. Although there have been no obvious signs yet that actual long-form book reading itself has declined (even though that would seem a likely consequence over … [Continue reading]
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