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What advice do you give a writer?

August 25, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

Because I am giving a keynote talk at the Writer’s Digest Conference in New York on September 18, I am thinking about “what do you tell a writer about digital change in publishing?” The view of the media world that I proselytize, which is that it is “going vertical”, is hard to accept if you […]

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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

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