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What James Daunt did and did not say about Barnes & Noble’s future

September 17, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

In what has to be considered a bit of a coup, BISG Executive Director Brian O’Leary scored a lengthy interview with B&N head James Daunt as the feature of BISG’s annual meeting which took place on September 11. Daunt had a lot to say about his plans for change at B&N, including more diversity in […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BISG, Book Industry Study Group, bookshop.org, Brian O'Leary, Ingram, James Daunt, Nook

Getting an award and getting caught up with innovation with BISG

April 21, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The Book Industry Study Group, or BISG, is a book publishing trade organization now headed by Brian O’Leary that was formed to be pan-industry. They were preceded by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the American Booksellers Association (ABA), but those were two “sides” of the book trade with their own interests, and they […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Alison Rich, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BISG, Book Industry Study Group, Booknet Canada, Bradley Metrock, Brian O'Leary, Carolyn Pittis, Christopher Kenneally, climatechangeresources.org, Copyright Clearance Center, Curtis Brown, Dominique Raccah, Eleanor Shatzkin, Ginger Clark, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Ingram, Jess Johns, Kindle, Lena Tabori, Leonard Shatzkin, Maja Thomas, Michael Tamblyn, MVB U.S. Michael Cader, Planned Production, PRH, PublishersLunch, Rakuten Kobo, ReaderLink, Sally Dedecker, Sandy Paul, Sourcebooks, Story Fit, Ted Hill, Wattpad, Welman Digital

Special People and Book Publishing

February 12, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

It is a safe contention that few people whose primary career motivation is “to get rich” go into book publishing. What attracts folks to our business are other life objectives. Over the six decades I’ve been interacting with publishing professionals, I have come to see that reality as a feature, not a bug. It is […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Conferences, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, BISG, Book Industry Study Group, Brian O'Leary, climatechangeresources.org, Constance Sayre, Dan McNamee, Dan Weiss, Lena Tabori, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners International, Martin Levin, Publishing and Media Group, Robert Riger, Sandy Paul, SparkNotes

Declarations and forecasts of Great Change in the book business need specificity to be useful and often do not provide it

March 4, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 14 Comments

A recent post here that incited a long comment string and another on FutureBook that was quite unrelated from the estimable Brian O’Leary have helped me formulate some thinking which I hope can be helpful in evaluating any “Great Change” post that arises about publishing. And they do, indeed, arise often. O’Leary’s post builds on […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "Publishing in the 21st Century" program, "The Bully Pulpit", Brian O'Leary, David Worlock, Doris Kearns Goodwin, FutureBook, Mark Bide

What the powers-that-be think about DRM, and an explanation of the cloud

January 16, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 84 Comments

My last post stemmed from a single catalyst: my frustration with what I feel is the tendency of those opposed to the use of DRM to promote the straw horse that people who defend its use must believe that DRM prevents, or even largely discourages, piracy. I know that isn’t true of me and I […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Brian O'Leary, digital rights management, DRM

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