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“The Book Business” is my new book

March 10, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

On Tuesday night, March 12, I’ll be enjoying a party thrown by my publisher Oxford University Press at The Strand Bookstore (email [email protected] if you want to come) for “The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know”, which I co-authored with Robert Paris Riger. This event follows our delivery of the complete manuscript by about […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know", Connie Sayre, Dan McNamee, Lorraine Shanley, Lucy Randall, Market Partners International, OUP, Oxford University Press, Robert Paris Riger

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

Dick McCullough was a great client for me, a great boss for many, and a great guy for everybody

June 18, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

I hadn’t seen Dick McCullough, who was my most-fun-to-work-with client of all time and the best leader I ever met in the corporate world, for at least a few years when I got a phone call from him at 7pm last New Year’s Eve. He was calling to tell me that he had just had […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: ABA Convention, Charles Ellis, Crowell-Collier, Dan McNamee, Dick McCullough, George Stanley, Harry McCullough, Jess Johns, John Wiley, Leonard Shatzkin, Macmillan, Michael Bennett, Peter Clifton, Peter McCarthy, Rich Freese, Scribners, Stewart Wolpin, Teresa Hartnett, Warren Sullivan

Introducing Digital Book World

August 5, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

Back in 1993 or so, my friend Lorraine Shanley of Market Partners International and I went to a free half-day conference sponsored by Microsoft. At the time, Microsoft was really pushing the computer manufacturers to install CD-Rom drivers into new computers. They had a definite selfish interest, which was to reduce the cost of goods […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Dan McNamee, DBW, Digital Book World, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners International, Microsoft, PW, VISTA

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