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“Scale” is a theme everybody in publishing needs to be thinking about, so we’ve made it the focus of our next Publishers Launch Conference

May 8, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

The overarching theme of our upcoming Publishers Launch Conference at BookExpo America on May 29 is “scale”. I thank my PLC partner, Michael Cader, for urging that we label that as a core concern worthy of being the centerpiece for a day’s discussion. (With that nudge, I identified “scale”, along with “verticalization” and “atomization”, as […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale Tagged With: Abrams, Adam Silverman, Aerbook, Alison Uncles, Amazon, Andrea Fleck-Nisbet, Apple, Ben Evans, BookExpo America, Brian Defiore, Brian Napack, Carolyn Pittis, Chicago Tribune, Crown Illustrated, Dan Lubart, David Nussbaum, David Wilk, Defiore and Company, Dorling Kindersley, Doug Stambaugh, Enders Analysis, F+W Media, Facebook, Folio Literary Management, Frederator Books, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Inkling, Iobyte Solutions, Jeff Abraham, Jennifer Day, John Wiley, Joseph Craven, Ken Michaels, Lauren Shakely, Lindy Humphreys, Lorraine Shanley, Macmillan, Market Partners International, Mary Ann Naples, Michael Cader, Microsoft, Penguin, Pete McCarthy, Peter Balis, Providence Equity Partners, Quarto Group, Random House, Robert Gottlieb, Rodale, Ron Martinez, Scott Hoffman, Simon & Schuster, Steve Kobrin, Tim Greco, Toronto Star/Star Dispatches, Trident Media Group, Wharton Digital Press, Workman

Learned (or figured out) at BEA 2012

June 11, 2012 by Jess 34 Comments

BookExpo America, trade publishing’s industry-wide gathering, just completed what must be considered another successful year at Javits Center last week. Attendance was pretty much what it had been last year and the lines for autographs on the convention floor certainly gave off the feeling of enthusiasm and excitement that publishers want to see. Convention roundups […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Abrams, Aerbook Maker, Avalon, BIC, Bill Newlin, BISG, BookExpo America, BookScan, Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, Crown, Doubleday, Fabbri, Firebrand, Fran Toolan, Joe Friedman, John Locke, Jonathan Nowell, Karina Luke, Laura Hazard Owen, Martha Moran, Martin Levin, Marvello Vena, Michael Cader, New American Library, Penguin, Perseus, RCS Libri, RCS Media, Rizzoli, Ron Martinez, Times Mirror Publishing

Extending the life of bookstores is critical, but devilishly difficult

March 25, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 43 Comments

I’ll admit that I would have thought a few years ago that by the time we got to the point when more than a third of unit sales for major houses had gone digital — and perhaps more than half for fiction — that the future shape of the book business would be discernible. But, […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Big Six, Bill Epstein, BISG, Bookazine, BookExpo America, BookStats, Bowker, Codex Group, Deloitte, Doubleday, Facebook, Ingram, Leonard Shatzkin, Peter Hildick-Smith, Phil Ollila, Pinterest, Tumblr

A Frankfurt reminder: the world is getting smaller

October 11, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

At the conclusion of another Frankfurt Book Fair — my thirty-somethingth — here is something I actually knew before but have taken on board in a whole new way: there is an enormous gap between the US and everyplace else in the Western world (at least) in consumer ebook takeup and acceptance. Here is what […]

Filed Under: Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon.com, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, BookExpo America, Denmark, Frankfurt Book Fair, Holland, Ingram, iPad, Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom", Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Palm Pilot, Slovenia, Sony Reader

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