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Vendor-managed inventory: why it is more important than ever

April 23, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

The idea of vendor-managed inventory has never become particularly popular in the book business, despite a few experiments over the years where it was implemented with great success. (And despite the fact that I was pushing for it back in 1997 and 1998.) But as the book business overall declines, with the print book business […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Above the Treeline, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Doubleday, Doubleday Merchandising Plan, Leonard Shatzkin, Philip Van Doren Stern, Two Continents, vendor-managed inventory, West Broadway Book Distribution

Peering into the future and seeing more value in the Random Penguin merger

November 26, 2012 by Admin 30 Comments

So now in addition to the Random House and Penguin merger that is being reviewed by governments far and wide, we have the news that HarperCollins is exploring a tie-up with Simon & Schuster in a deal that hasn’t been made yet. That leaves Hachette and Macmillan, among the so-called Big Six, still on the […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Ballantine, Barnes & Noble, Book-of-the-Month Club, Dell, Doubleday, Fawcett, Hachette, HarperCollins, Laura Owen, Literary Guild, Macmillan, PaidContent, Penguin, Putnam-Berkley, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Sterling, Thomas Nelson, Viking, Zondervan

Learned (or figured out) at BEA 2012

June 11, 2012 by Admin 34 Comments

BookExpo America, trade publishing’s industry-wide gathering, just completed what must be considered another successful year at Javits Center last week. Attendance was pretty much what it had been last year and the lines for autographs on the convention floor certainly gave off the feeling of enthusiasm and excitement that publishers want to see. Convention roundups […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Abrams, Aerbook Maker, Avalon, BIC, Bill Newlin, BISG, BookExpo America, BookScan, Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, Crown, Doubleday, Fabbri, Firebrand, Fran Toolan, Joe Friedman, John Locke, Jonathan Nowell, Karina Luke, Laura Hazard Owen, Martha Moran, Martin Levin, Marvello Vena, Michael Cader, New American Library, Penguin, Perseus, RCS Libri, RCS Media, Rizzoli, Ron Martinez, Times Mirror Publishing

Random House maintaining a big field force while the industry wisdom is to cut

April 12, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

I was brought up to believe in the virtues of a large field sales force. One of Dad’s early successes in his career as Director of Research at Doubleday was when he analyzed sales rep effectiveness to advise the company about the optimum number of reps to keep when they combined sales forces that had […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Big Six, Doubleday, Edelweiss, Jaci Updike, Joan Demayo, Leonard Shatzkin, Madeline McIntosh, Markus Dohle, Random House

Extending the life of bookstores is critical, but devilishly difficult

March 25, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 43 Comments

I’ll admit that I would have thought a few years ago that by the time we got to the point when more than a third of unit sales for major houses had gone digital — and perhaps more than half for fiction — that the future shape of the book business would be discernible. But, […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Big Six, Bill Epstein, BISG, Bookazine, BookExpo America, BookStats, Bowker, Codex Group, Deloitte, Doubleday, Facebook, Ingram, Leonard Shatzkin, Peter Hildick-Smith, Phil Ollila, Pinterest, Tumblr

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