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Observations on a conversation with Hachette’s digital leaders

March 15, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

I really enjoyed listening to David Young and Maja Thomas, Hachette’s Chairman/CEO and top digital strategist, respectively, chat with industry veteran and blogger Charlotte Abbott on Blogtalk radio. All three are friends and people for whom I have a lot of respect. I generally prefer reading to listening as a way to take in information, but this […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, B&N, Blio, Bowker, Charlotte Abbott, Copia, David Young, Dominique Raccah, Google Editions, Hachette Book Group, iPublish, iStore, James Sturdivant, Kobo, Maja Thomas, Publishing Business magazine, PubTrack

Riffing on Tamblyn’s “6 Things”, Part 1

March 25, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

Michael Tamblyn, the smart and dynamic leader of Booknet Canada who has performed minor miracles with the Canadian supply chain, gave a talk at his company’s tech forum a fortnight ago that has gotten a lot of deserved attention. It’s 30 minutes long, but it flies by and the presentation is great fun: very much […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, Booknet Canada, Bowker, Ingram, Jouve North America, Michael Tamblyn, StartWithXML, The Wiley-O'Reilly Rule, Value-Chain International

End of General Trade Publishing Houses (Completely Retold)

January 22, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

I am not predicting that everybody will read on screens. You probably know that I’m a fan of the Kindle and perhaps you know that I’ve been an avid ebook reader on a Palm for almost 10 years. But I’ve learned that other people’s attachment to paper is greater than mine. And anyway, it would be a good thing for general trade publishers if there were more screen takeup; it would mean keeping the readers for their content and not necessarily any loss in margin

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Abrams, Amazon, B2B, BEA, blog, Bowker, CBS, Facebook, Google, HarperCollins, horizontal, iPod, Kindle, LibraryThing, Market Partners, McGraw-Hill, MySpace, Neilson, New York Times, O'Reilly Media, Palm, Powell, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Marketplace, Publishers Weekly, Random House, RSS, SharedBook, Shelfari, Sony, Sourcebooks, television, Twitter, verticle, Wikipedia, Wiley, Workman, XML, YouTube

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