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It isn’t wise to draw lines in the sand that ultimately can’t be defended

July 25, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

Apologies in advance for a much-longer-than-usual post. It is not like the publishers haven’t seen the ebook royalty fight coming. On a panel he and I were on together in March of 2009, John Sargent, the Chairman and CEO of Macmillan, identified ebook margins as the critical issue for publishers going forward. Even though ebook […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Andrew Wylie, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Black Plastic Glasses, Bran Hambric, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, iPad, Jane Friedman, John Sargent, John Schline, Kindle, Knopf, Macmillan, Nook, Odyssey Books, Open Road, Penguin, Random House, Rosetta Books, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, Stephen Covey, William Styron

Another copyright reshuffle that’s in the cards

May 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

Evan Schnittman at Black Plastic Glasses posted the final chunk of a 3-parter yesterday that contained a real shocker (to me) at the end. The 3-part post shows through Evan’s personal experience that a) we now insist that content come when we want it and how we want it and b) the very existence of […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Black Plastic Glasses, copyright law, Evan Schnittman

Times Book Review on advances, and related thoughts

April 11, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

The NY Times Book Review published a piece on advances online today to which I was first pointed by Twitter early this morning. I couldn’t tell whether author Michael Meyer was “for ’em or agin’ ’em”. On the one hand, he seemed to suggest that publishers are inclined to overpay, and he cites Public Affairs head […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Bantam, Bill Shinker, Black Plastic Glasses, Evan Schnittman, Iacocca, Michael Meyer, NY Times Book Review, Peter Mayer, Peter Osnos, Princess Daisy, Senator Mark Hatfield

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