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What I was thinking when I said that wild stuff

June 6, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

At our Publishers Launch Conference on the Wednesday of BEA, Michael Cader and I introduced a new feature we think will become regular at our events: a candid 1-on-1 conversation between us. It went well. In fact, it went so well that what reads like a pretty damn accurate verbatim account of much of it […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ed Nawotka, Mark Bide, Michael Cader, Penguin Random House, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Publishers Licensing Society, Publishing Perspectives, VMI

Borders Crosses the Last Frontier

July 21, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

The end of Borders took place within a larger context. I was in Italy for the IfBookThen conference last February when Borders’ impending bankruptcy was a rising expectation. Somebody in the audience asked me if I attributed Borders’ difficulties to ebooks. I said: “When the flu hits town, the old and sick die first.” Ebooks […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, Bertelsmann, BN .com, Borders, Bowker, category management, Ed Nawotka, IfBookThen, K-Mart, Publishers Lunch, Publishing Perspectives, Waldenbooks

Most dramatic publishing event of 2010? Introducing agency pricing!

November 30, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

Ed Nawotka, the editor of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s online publication “Publishing Perspectives”, is running a series of pieces responding to his question “what was the most dramatic event in publishing in 2010?” Here’s the answer from The Shatzkin Files. The most dramatic event in publishing in 2010? That’s easy. It was the face-down between […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Agency 5, Apple, Ed Nawotka, Frankfurt Book Fair, Google Editions, iBookstore, Kindle, Kobo, Macmillan, Nook, Peter Wiley, Publishing Perspectives, Random House

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