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What we are seeing today is actually the second renaissance of indie bookselling, not the first

March 27, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Publishing and digital change consultant Bill Rosenblatt — always worth paying attention to — pointed his contacts last week to a podcast from NPR celebrating the current renaissance of independent bookstores. The history reported as part of what was really the celebration of very recent events is useful to ponder, even if it was sometimes a […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Bell & Howell, Bill Rosenblatt, Harry Hoffman, Ingram, Ingram microfiche, NPR

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

Second old publishing story: the first great book supply chain tech disruption

March 7, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

Before the early 1970s, wholesalers to the trade were local and carried a relatively small number of titles. Their main job was to back up bestsellers and local booksellers went direct to the publishers for just about everything else. Baker & Taylor was national, but focused on the library market. And Ingram was a small […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: B. Dalton, Baker & Taylor, Bell & Howell, Harry Hoffman, Ingram, Michael Zibart

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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