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Building a new-fangled conference program the old-fashioned way

September 20, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

There is certainly more than one way to build a conference program. I have been putting them together since long before I learned about the concept of “crowd-sourcing”. I’m a bit of a plowhorse about some things so the Digital Book World conference program comes together pretty much the same way as the first digital […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Publishing Tagged With: Andrew Savikas, Association of Booksellers for Children, BISG, Bowker, Charlie Redmayne, Cullen Stanley, Edelweiss, Electronic Publishing & Rights, F+W Media, Filedby, Frankfurt Book Fair, iModerate, Janklow and Nesbit Agency, Kat Meyer, Liza Daly, Lorraine Shanley, Maria Campbell, Marianne Wolk, Michael Cader, NetGalley, O'Reilly, Scott Lubeck, SXSW, Tools of Change, Verso Media

A brilliant Conference Council helps make a great Digital Book World

June 25, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

We had a very successful debut annual conference for Digital Book World last January, even though we didn’t conceive the idea until June, put together a group of helpers (which we now call our Conference Council) until July, or draft the initial program until August. This year we’re way ahead of that schedule. We’ve put […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Adam Salamone, Association of Booksellers for Children, Baker & Taylor, BISG, Borders, Brian Napack, Cengage, Charlie Redmayne, Copyright Clearance Center, Cory Smith, David Blansfield, David Cully, David Nussbaum, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, F+W Media, Filedby, Frankfurt Book Fair, GiantChair, Google, Guy Gonzalez, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harvard Common Press, ICM, Ingram Content Companies, Jane Friedman, Joe Esposito, John Ingram, John Schline, John Wiley & Sons, Kaplan, Kate Rados, Ken Brooks, Kobo, Kristen McLean, Larry Norton, Lorraine Shanley, Macmillan, Madeline McIntosh, Maja Thomas, Marcus Leaver, Mark Gompertz, Market Partners International, Matt Mullin, Maureen McMahon, Michael Cader, Michael Cairns, Michael Tamblyn, Open Road, Overdrive Systems, Oxford University Press, Penguin, Persona Non Data, Peter Balis, Peter Clifton, Publishers Marketplace, Random House, Sara Domville, Scott Lubeck, Scott Waxman, Simon & Schuster, Simon Lipskar, Sloan Harris, Smashwords, Sourcebooks, Sterling Publishing, Steve Potash, Ted Hill, THA Consulting, Thomas Minkus, Tom Turvey, Tracey Armstrong, Waxman Agency, Writer's House

Metadata is the new most important thing to know about

June 8, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

Several very recent conversations have come together for me. 1. Joe Esposito, the new CEO of GiantChair, says metadata is the key to publishing in the future; he describes metadata as the modern equivalent of Allen Lane’s discovery that cheaper paperback books sold in mass merchant locations could boost book sales. Of course, Giant Chair […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Author Data Advantage, F+W Media, Filedby, GiantChair, Ingram, Joe Esposito, metadata, Peter Clifton

Caroline Latham, an old publishing friend I’ll miss

December 6, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

I lost a very dear friend who was a unique figure in the publishing world two months ago when Caroline Latham died in Novato, California. I am pretty sure she was 68 or 69; her close friend Joan was sure she was 70. Even Caroline didn’t know for sure. I met Caroline in 1978 when […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Don Christensen, Filedby, Jack Eisner, Joan Winer Brown, Joe Amter, Latham Publishing Company, My Life with Rose Kennedy, Oberlin College, RealFacts, Sarah Bridge, Scott Bridge, Two Continents Pubishing Group

What advice do you give a writer?

August 25, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

Because I am giving a keynote talk at the Writer’s Digest Conference in New York on September 18, I am thinking about “what do you tell a writer about digital change in publishing?” The view of the media world that I proselytize, which is that it is “going vertical”, is hard to accept if you […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: AuthorHouse, Facebook, Filedby, LinkedIn, PublishersMarketplace, Scribd, Smashwords, Twitter, Writer's Digest Conference

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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