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My advice is not always easy to follow, but sometimes it proves right anyway

March 29, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago by a journalist who was working on a story about publishers and digital change. He was building something around my “Stay Ahead of the Shift” speech from last year’s Book Expo. “I was impressed by that speech,” he said. “You were very prescriptive about what publishers should do. So […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Bertelsmann, Book-of-the-Month Club, Cookstr, F+W Media, HarperCollins, Harvard Common Press, Hay House, Random House, Serious Eats

Reality changes more slowly than I like to think

July 8, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I did a panel yesterday at NYU as part of the summer publishing program on “New Visions” for publishing. The group was put together by Leslie Schnur. I shared the stage with four very articulate co-presenters who gave very diverse views of the future. Our audience was a full room of about 50-100 (I wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Chuckles, eBooks, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Author Solutions, Brian O'Leary, Carol Hoenig, Cookstr, Dan Simon, Leslie Schnur, Magellan Media, NYU, Seven Stories Press, Will Schwalbe

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