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Ted Williams: 3 stories you won’t have read anywhere else

July 31, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

Today’s post is about Ted Williams, the baseball player who might have been the greatest hitter who ever lived. There’s no attempt here to make the piece accessible to people who neither know nor care about baseball so, if you came to the blog for publishing or digital change today, please come back for the […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Baseball Tagged With: Arthur Kimmel, Babe Ruth, Baseball Fan's Guide to Spring Training, Bright House Field, Cool Springs Press, Eddie Mifflin, Jack Russell Stadium, Jimmy Foxx, John Updike, Lawrie Mifflin, Lou Gehrig, Mel Ott, Mickey Mantle, Phllies, Roger Waynick, Ted Williams, Tony Kubek, Yogi Berra

Lots going on; no single topic today

July 20, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

I find myself with a lot of pages open on my web browser. Even before Amazon’s announcement yesterday about ebooks passing hardcovers in sales this past quarter, there has been a lot going on. There had been some suggestions, which I never bought into, that ebook sales were slowing in 2009. (Is this a meme […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Cool Springs Press, Farrar Straus & Giroux, IDPF, Joe Konrath, Joe Wikert, Kat Meyer, Kindle, Knopf, Madeline McIntosh, O'Reilly, Oprah, Publishers Weekly, Random House, Wall Street Journal

Cool Springs Press, a gardening publisher that really understands “vertical”

June 23, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

As readers of this blog know, I’ve been on the “vertical” trail for a long time and I try to stay abreast of book publishers’ efforts to realize the advantages of subject specialization and community building. I wrote a whole post about the Sourcebooks initiative, Poetry Speaks, when it launched last Fall. I have often […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Cool Springs Press, Harvard Common Press, Hay House, Lark Crafts, Pixiq, Poetry Speaks, Roger Waynick, Sterling Publishing, Thomas Nelson

A roadmap for the future: 6 suggestions for today’s publishers that many can’t follow

June 13, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

I had occasion during this past week to speak at the global strategic meeting of Harlequin. Often when I am asked to speak, even internally to publishers, I am explicit told “we want you to scare the hell out of them.” Since I think of myself as a pretty unthreatening guy, I’m always a bit […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Chelsea Green, Cool Springs Press, F+W Media, Harlequin, Hay House, Ingram, Penguin, Random House, Simon & Schuster

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