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Transformation of companies and the book industry itself are not just 21st century phenomena

January 27, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

Company transformation is a major theme at this year’s Digital Book World conference. By “transformation” we mean substantial changes in a company’s business model or core competencies or revenue streams. We found eight worthy companies to speak on this subject. Six of them — Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ingram, Quarto, Rodale, Sourcebooks, and Wiley — are […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: ABA Convention, Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Baker & Taylor, BEA, Bell & Howell, BookPage, Daniel Berkowitz, DBW blog, Diversion Books, Harry Hoffman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ingram, Jeff Bezos, Joe Esposito, John Ingram, Lightning Print, Michael Zibart, microfiche reader, Nashville Tennessean, NetGalley, Quarto, Reed Exhibitions, Rodale, Sourcebooks, Wiley

Frankfurt is still vast, but it seems to be getting smaller

October 17, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

I’ve spent more than half-a-year of my life in Frankfurt, one week at a time. My first Fair was 1976 so this would have been my 39th if I attended them all. I think I missed two, so that’s 37. I love it and I get enormous commercial benefit from it. I can’t understand people […]

Filed Under: Conferences, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History Tagged With: BEA, BISG, Casablanca Bar, Charlie Nurnberg, Frankfurt Book Fair, Gwyn Headley, Hachette, IDPF, Logical Marketing, London Book Fair, Meridien ParkHotel, Michael Cader, Peter McCarthy, Quarto, Sterling

The future of bookstores is the key to understanding the future of publishing

January 23, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 127 Comments

One of the subjects we have been probing for a long time is the inevitable impact that increased purchasing of books online would have on the shelf space at retail and what that would mean to trade publishers. (You’ll see that this speech that is well more than a decade old also says publishers are […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, BEA, Borders, Bowker, Jim Cramer, Joe Esposito, McNally-Jackson, Nook, Penguin Random House, Sarah McNally, Wal-mart

But what if it gets really easy to deliver apps or enhanced ebooks?

May 2, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

This is an unusually brief post today, but some worthy observations don’t require long explanations. I wrote nearly 18 months ago about my concern that publishers’ interest in enhanced ebooks would bring on a repeat of the commercially disastrous CD-Rom era of the mid-1990s. Of course, since the CD-Rom era, a lot has changed. * […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing Tagged With: "Gems and Jewels", "The Solar System", Apple, BEA, BISG, Blio, CCC, Charlie Melcher, David Marlin, eBooks Go Global, Google App Inventor, Hachette, Heather Reid, Ken Michaels, Kindle, Making Information Pay, Metacomet, Michael Cader, Mother Vook, Push Pop, Scott Lubeck, Smashwords, The Elements, Touch Press, Vook, Yapper, Zinio Fusion

BEA will be a shame to lose, but can it be saved?

June 1, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

Dinner Saturday night. 12 of us. Three spouses who had no particular interest in the BEA. Eight of us with one interest or another in the book business, but no possibility of personally being an exhibitor. And one publishing company CEO with a stand. Of course, I got my money’s worth. I got in free as […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: BEA, Bookmasters, F+W, Frankfurt Book Fair, Klopotek, Martin Levin, Michael Cairns, Richard Nash, Taunton, Wiley

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