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Another lesson from the digital trail: the Italians are shy about speaking in public

February 6, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

I spoke last Thursday at the 2nd annual IfBookThen conference in Milan staged by the Italian ebook retailer Bookrepublic. On Friday, I teamed up with the UK literary agent David Miller and Penguin US’s Molly Barton, formerly an editor but now the company’s Global Digital Director at a “workshop” session staged by the same organizers. […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Book Country, Bookrepublic, Brazil, David Miller, IfBookThen, Michael Cader, Molly Barton, Penguin

Show me the data!

January 16, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 24 Comments

One thing we try to do at Digital Book World is to present our audiences with useful, relevant, and, when we can, original data. It is a familiar complaint in our industry that we drive blind. Part of that is due to the sheer diversity and granularity of the “book business”. And another part is […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: A.T. Kearney, AllRomance.com, Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Amy Henry, Association of Booksellers for Children, Barnes & Noble, Bill Newlin, BISG, BookData, Bookigee, Bookrepublic, BookScan, Bowker, Disney, Forrester Research, Fran Toolan, HarperCollins, IfBookThen, Ira Mayer, Jack McKeown, James McQuivey, Jonathan Nowell, Kelly Gallagher, Kobo, Kristen McLean, Lorraine Shanley, metadata, Nielsen, Oren Teicher, Scholastic, Verso Media, Youth Beat, Youth Market Alerts

Publishers Launch Frankfurt will focus on data and retailers that every publisher needs to know

July 19, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

Our Publishers Launch Conferences venture is doing two shows in Frankfurt: a full-day “eBooks Around the World” program on Monday, October 10 and our first conference dedicated to children’s book publishing, “Children’s Publishing Goes Digital”, which will be a half-day program on Tuesday, October 11. We’ve enlisted the capable help of Lorraine Shanley of Market […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Children's Publishing Goes Digital", "eBooks Around the World", A.T. Kearney, Amazon, aNobii, Barnes & Noble, Bookrepublic, CCC, Chris Bauerle, David Naggar, Emily Williams, Frankfurt, Google, IfBookThen, Jonathan Nowell, Kindle, Kobo, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners International, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, Nielsen, Nook, Octavio Kulesz, Patricia Arancibia, Perseus Constellation, Sourcebooks, Theresa Horner, Tracey Armstrong

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