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Everybody in Hollywood Needs an eBook Strategy

May 14, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

As a result of spending my college days at UCLA, I had a handful of contacts in the Hollywood community when I came back East to live in 1969. When I started becoming familiar with New York publishing in the 1970s, I found myself, on occasion, shopping movie or TV tie-in projects. Armed with a […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "All in the Family", "Casablanca", "Cotton Candy", "Film/TV-to-Book", "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Seinfeld", ABC Video Books, Amanda Hocking, F+W Media, Hollywood, Hyperion, Michael Fabiano, NBC Publishing, Ron Howard, St. Martin's, Story World, UCLA, Warner Brothers Digital Distribution

We’re getting SaaS-y, going Hollywood, and starting to plan Digital Book World 2013

May 2, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

It is hard to believe that we’re starting to plan the fourth annual Digital Book World conference, which will be held January 16-17, 2013 at the Hilton in New York City. But we are. The first DBW was held in 2010. Planning for it began the June before when David Nussbaum and Sara Domville of […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Conferences, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", ABC, AcademicPub, Amazon, aNobii, Book Country, CBS, Copyright Clearance Center, David Houle, David Nussbaum, Digital Book World 2013, F+W Media, Fox, HarperCollins, Hyperion, Macmillan, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, NBC, O'Reilly, Pottermore, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishers Launch Hollywood, Publishing in the Cloud, Rightslink, S&S, SaaS, Safari, Sara Domville, Semi-Linear, Sourcebooks, Tor.com

What smaller publishers, agents, and authors need to know about ebook publishing

September 5, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

As the shift from a print-centric book world to a digital one accelerates, more and more digital publishers are creating themselves. The biggest publishers, with the resources of sophisticated IT departments to guide them, have been in the game for years now and paying serious attention since the Kindle was launched by Amazon late in […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, BookBaby, Bowker, Copyright Clearance Center, David Wilk, Dimension Books, F+W Media, Google, Ingram Content Group, INscribe Digital, Iris Blasi, Jack Perry, Jane Dystel, Joshua Tallent, Kindle, Knight Agency, Kobo, LibreDigital, Mark Coker, Michael Cader, MintRight, Open Road, OverDrive, Perseus Constellation, PubIt, Renee Register, Rich Fahle, Robert Gottlieb, Ron Martinez, Rosetta, Scott Waxman, Scott Waxman Agency, SEO, Sloan Harris, Smashwords, Story World

Nothing happens over 4th of July weekend, except this year

July 4, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

Monday, July 4, was supposed to be a quiet day in the publishing business. It turns out it wasn’t. Three developments reported as special holiday bulletins by Publishers Lunch have strategic implications worth pondering that will have trade publishing people all over the world conferring with their friends and colleagues as soon as they shake […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Angus & Robertson, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Christopher Little Agency, Don Engel, Eleanor Shatzkin, F+W Media, Interweave, J.K. Rowling, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft, Mobi, MS Reader, Neil Blair, O'Reilly, Palm, Pearson, Penguin, Publishers Lunch, REDGroup, The Book Depository, Wiley

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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