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Agents have to do it, but their new service offerings change the publishing ecosystem

August 3, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 36 Comments

Agents work for authors and sell books (mostly) to big general trade publishers, but there’s really a partnership at work there. Nearly all the books big publishers buy, and almost without exception those for which big money is paid, come to them from agents. There’s a symbiotic dependency between them. Publishers depend on agents to […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences Tagged With: AAR, Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Bedford Square Books, BookEnds, Curtis Brown UK, Diversion Books, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, Ed Victory Agency, Levine Greenberg, McDermid Agency, Open Road Media, Random House, Scott Waxman Literary Agency, Simon & Schuster, The Knight Agency

A debate across panels is coming at our London show on June 21

June 8, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

It looks like we’re going to have a bit of an unintended debate stretching across several of our panels at the Publishers Launch show in London. Since I’m the guy who put the show together, I can speak with authority to the fact that it was really unintended. But I consider it serendipitous and proof […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAR, Branch Rickey, Charlie Campbell, Curtis Brown, David Miller, Diversion, Ed Victor Ltd., Ereads, F+W Media, Jonny Geller, Michael Cader, O'Reilly, Peter Cox, Philip Jones, Publishers Association, Redhammer, Richard Charkin, Richard Curtis, Richard Mollett, Rogers Coleridge and White, Scott Waxman, StartWithXML, Toby Mundy, Tools of Change

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

Talking to the agents, and introducing Filedby

March 19, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

I was flattered to be asked to speak to the AAR last night as part of a very distinguished group. My fellow panelists were John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan; Morgan Entrekin, the CEO of Atlantic Monthly Press; the agent Larry Kirshbaum, who was CEO of TimeWarner’s book division (now Hachette Book Group);  and Susan Katz, the […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: AAR, Filedby, John Sargent, Larry Kirshbaum, Morgan Entrekin, Susan Katz

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