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Two anomalies on my desk this morning

April 9, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

While the AAP reports that US book sales are definitely down and my friends in major houses report a decline of 10% or more across the board, that’s not what we’re hearing from Canada and it’s not what we hard from small and midsize publishers responding to our BISG “Shifting Sales Channels” survey. BookNet Canada […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Shifting Sales Channels", AAP, BISG, Booknet Canada, Michael Tamblyn

Ruminating about returns

April 7, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

The subject of eliminating returns seems to come up more and more frequently these days. Last week we were interviewing a major independent bookseller for our BISG “Shifting Sales Channels” project and they brought it up. In this case, they were complaining about the new “no returns” policy from HarperStudio. As I understand what the […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, BISG, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Ingram, returns

Shifting Sales Channels, and What Publishers Are Doing About Them

March 10, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

We (Ted Hill of THA Consulting and I) are working with BISG again this year on their Making Information Pay conference. Last year we did a project on “Experimentation and Innovation” where we used both an online survey and interviews to surface the issues we captured in a research paper and then formed the backbone […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Experimentation and Innovation", "Shifting Sales Channels", BISG, Book Industry Study Group, custom publishing, Making Information Pay, online sales, Ted Hill

Welcome to The Shatzkin Files

February 22, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

When Joe Esposito first told me about blogs in about 2001 or so, there were very few. Michael Cader had PublishersLunch, but if Michael knew that it was an emailed blog, he didn’t tell me. And then blogs “happened”, as things do: gradually, then suddenly. And now I’m late to have one of my own. […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical Tagged With: BISG, blogs, Filedbyauthor, fotolibra, Gwyn Headley, Hamid Alipour, Joe Esposito, Laura Dawson, Michael Cader, Michael Cairns, Peter Brantley, StartWithXML, Tess Strand Alipour, Twitter

A New Project: “StartwithXML, Why and How”

September 12, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

We have turned our attention to a problem we believe will occupy just about all publishers in the years to come, the opportunities and challenges presented by an XML workflow that starts with the author, or even before there is an author.

Why should you care? Because the world we live in is changing, and XML is the key to mastering the change

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: BISAC code, BISG, codeMantra, Daily Lit, eBooks, Jouve, Klopotek, LJNDawson, Magellan Media, McGraw-Hill, O'Reilly Media, Print-On-Demand, Publishing Dimensions, Rosetta Solutions, THA Consulting, XML

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