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We’re getting SaaS-y, going Hollywood, and starting to plan Digital Book World 2013

May 2, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

It is hard to believe that we’re starting to plan the fourth annual Digital Book World conference, which will be held January 16-17, 2013 at the Hilton in New York City. But we are. The first DBW was held in 2010. Planning for it began the June before when David Nussbaum and Sara Domville of […]

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Things learned and thoughts provoked by London Book Fair 2012

April 24, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 47 Comments

This post contains a batch of observations from this year’s London Book Fair. Some of it recalled an experience from about 20 years ago. We’ll begin there. In the early 1990s, Microsoft was on a mission to get computer hardware manufacturers to install CD-Rom drives in new machines. Microsoft had a very simple motivation. Software […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Allen Lau, Amazon, Andrew Steele, Audible, Belinda Rasmussen, Bloomsbury, Bob Young, Charlie Redmayne, Copyright Clearance Center, Digital Minds, Eric Huang, Evan Schnittman, Fionnuala Duggan, Funny or Die, Hachette Book Group USA, International Course Smart, Jeff Gomez, Kate Wilson, Lulu, Michael Healy, Microsoft, Nosy Crow, Pan Macmillan, Penguin, Pottermore, Publishing Point, Random House UK, Recorded Books, Sara Lloyd, Starlight Runner Entertainment, Susan Danziger, The Great Debate, Wattpad

What smaller publishers, agents, and authors need to know about ebook publishing

September 5, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

As the shift from a print-centric book world to a digital one accelerates, more and more digital publishers are creating themselves. The biggest publishers, with the resources of sophisticated IT departments to guide them, have been in the game for years now and paying serious attention since the Kindle was launched by Amazon late in […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, BookBaby, Bowker, Copyright Clearance Center, David Wilk, Dimension Books, F+W Media, Google, Ingram Content Group, INscribe Digital, Iris Blasi, Jack Perry, Jane Dystel, Joshua Tallent, Kindle, Knight Agency, Kobo, LibreDigital, Mark Coker, Michael Cader, MintRight, Open Road, OverDrive, Perseus Constellation, PubIt, Renee Register, Rich Fahle, Robert Gottlieb, Ron Martinez, Rosetta, Scott Waxman, Scott Waxman Agency, SEO, Sloan Harris, Smashwords, Story World

“A Global Perspective on Digital Change” will be our first show in London

May 15, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The first Publishers Launch Conferences show outside the United States, “A Global Perspective on Digital Change”, will be at the Congress Centre in central London on June 21, with the Publishers Association serving as our partners in putting on the event. We also owe special thanks to the PA’s group of Digital Directors, who were […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Angry Robot, Anthony Forbes Watson, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Blio, Bloomsbury, Charlie Redmayne, Constellation, Copia, Copyright Clearance Center, Curtis Brown, David Miller, David Roth-ey, Dominic Myers, EDItEur, Faber, George Walkley, Google, Google ebooks, Graham Bell, Hachette, HarperCollins, Helen Kogan, Ingram, iPad, Jacks Thomas, James Long, Jean Harrington, Jo Howard, John Makinson, Jon Windus, Jonny Geller, Juan Lopez-Valacarel, Karina Luke, Kindle, Kobo, Kogan Page, Ltd, Marc Gascoigne, Mark Bide, Maverick House, Michael Cader, Midas Public Relations, Mobcast, Mosaic Search & Selection Ltd, Nielsen, Osprey, OverDrive, Pan Macmillan, Patricia Aranacibia, Pearson, Penguin, Perseus, Peter Cox, Publishers Association UK, Publishers Licensing Society, Publishing Ireland, Random House, Redhammer, Richard Charkin, Rick Joyce, Rogers Coleridge and White, Sara Faulder, Sara Lloyd, Sony, Stephen Page, Tools of Change, Waterstone's

Publishers Launch Conferences: a new partnership with Michael Cader

March 22, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

I had already been in the “publishing futurist” game for a few years when my frequent project partner Mark Bide and I put together a day-long conference in March 2000 at the London Book Fair called “Publishing 2010.” (As I look at what I wrote for that conference, I can see some things I got […]

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