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We got lucky with the speakers we booked for Publishers Launch Frankfurt

October 2, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Branch Rickey, the fabled baseball executive who gave us racial integration, farm systems, and a host of great teams over fifty years, used to say “luck is the residue of design”. I’d like to think he was right, because we have really been lucky with our Frankfurt show for Publishers Launch, which we present in […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Global, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Allen Lau, Amazon, Bluefire, Branch Rickey, Charlie Redmayne, Frankfurt Academy, GoodReads, HarperCollins, Jonathan Nowell, Ken Brooks, Marcus Leaver, McGraw-Hill, Micah Bowers, Nielsen Book, Octavio Kulesz, Osprey, Otis Chandler, Pottermore, Quarto, Rebecca Smart, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd, Sourcebooks, Trip Adler, Wattpad

A debate across panels is coming at our London show on June 21

June 8, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

It looks like we’re going to have a bit of an unintended debate stretching across several of our panels at the Publishers Launch show in London. Since I’m the guy who put the show together, I can speak with authority to the fact that it was really unintended. But I consider it serendipitous and proof […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAR, Branch Rickey, Charlie Campbell, Curtis Brown, David Miller, Diversion, Ed Victor Ltd., Ereads, F+W Media, Jonny Geller, Michael Cader, O'Reilly, Peter Cox, Philip Jones, Publishers Association, Redhammer, Richard Charkin, Richard Curtis, Richard Mollett, Rogers Coleridge and White, Scott Waxman, StartWithXML, Toby Mundy, Tools of Change

Eisler’s decision is a key benchmark on the road to wherever it is we’re going

March 21, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 171 Comments

I wasn’t planning to write a post this past weekend for Monday morning publication. But then Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler contacted me on Saturday to tell me what Barry is up to. I’ve read their lengthy conversation about Barry’s decision to turn down a $500,000 contract (apparently for two books) and join Joe (and […]

Filed Under: Authors, Baseball, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Bookmasters, Branch Rickey, Charles Levy, Christian publishing, Constellation, CreateSpace, Google ebooks, iBookstore, Ingram, Jackie Robinson, Joe Konrath, Kindle, Kobo, Lightning Source, Negro Leagues, Nook, Perseus, PubIt, Scott Waxman Literary Agency, Smashwords, Sony

Len Shatzkin and the breaking of a publishing color line

April 2, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

There was a lot of lore in our family but one of my favorite bits of it was my father’s great pride at having hired the first two black office workers at Doubleday in the 1950s. This was particularly cheeky for the guy who was the only Jew in top management ranks. The way I […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Publishing History Tagged With: Advise and Consent, Branch Rickey, Charles Harris, Ed Simmons, Eleanor Shatzkin, Jackie Robinson, John Sargent, Karen Shatzkin, Leonard Shatzkin, Nance Shatzkin, Nelson Doubleday, Ray Rivera, The Urban League

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