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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

When an author should self-publish and how that might change

April 17, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

There is a question that every agent and publisher is dealing with, because authors surely are. And that’s this: when should an author self- (or indie-) publish? The answer is certainly not “never”, and if there is anybody left in a publishing house who thinks it is, they should think a little harder. For a […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Arthur Klebanoff, Curtis Brown, Diversion, Ereads, Joe Konrath, Open Road, Richard Curtis, Rosetta Books, Trident, Waxman-Leavell Agency, Writer's House

Nine places to look in 2014 to predict the future of publishing

January 1, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

The digital transition of the trade book publishing business, which I would date from the opening of Amazon.com in 1995, enters its 20th year in 2014. Here are some of the ponderables as we close out the first two decades of a process of very rapid change that is far from over. 1. What’s going […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Big One, Big Six, Curtis Brown, Derek Jeter, Diversion, E-Reads, Entitle, eReatah, Following Four, Hugh Howey, iPad, John Locke, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Owners Lending Library, Matchbook, O'Reilly, Oyster, Pearson, Penguin Random House, PRH, Rosetta, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Writer's House

Publishers Launch conference at BEA will cover a wide range of digital change issues

May 29, 2012 by Jess 7 Comments

What are the important topics to discuss today concerning publishing and digital change? I think we’ve got most of them covered at Publishers Launch BEA, the one-day conference we’ll stage at the Javits Center next Monday, June 4. Our all-day event has sixteen distinct presentations and panels. There may be a topic of interest to […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "What Technology Wants", Aerbooks, Amanda Close, Baker & Taylor, Blanca Rosa Roca, Bowker, Carolyn Pittis, Chris Bauerle, Chris Dufault, Citia, cloud services, Codex, Comixology, Copyright Clearance Center, Curtis Brown, Dan Vidra, David Cully, David Steinberger, David Wilk, David Wolfson, F+W Media, Fritz Foy, Hachette Book Group USA, HarperCollins, Hugh McGuire, Ingram Content Group, Jack Perry, Javier Celaya, Jean Naggar Agency, Jennifer Weltz, Joe Mangan, Kelly Gallagher, Ken Michaels, Kevin Kelly, Kindle, Kobo, Laura Daily, Laura Hazard Owen, Linda Holliday, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Michael Tamblyn, Molly Barton, PaidContent, Patricia Arancibia, Penguin, Perseus, Peter Hildick-Smith, Phil Ollila, Pressbooks, Publishers Lunch, Publishing in the Cloud, Random House, Rick Joyce, Ron Martinez, SaaS, Sara Domville, Scott Stein, Semi-Linear, Simon & Schuster, Simon Lipskar, Sourcebooks, textr, Tim Knowlton, Tor.com, USA Today, Waterstone's, Writer's House

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

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