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Frankfurt is still vast, but it seems to be getting smaller

October 17, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

I’ve spent more than half-a-year of my life in Frankfurt, one week at a time. My first Fair was 1976 so this would have been my 39th if I attended them all. I think I missed two, so that’s 37. I love it and I get enormous commercial benefit from it. I can’t understand people […]

Filed Under: Conferences, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History Tagged With: BEA, BISG, Casablanca Bar, Charlie Nurnberg, Frankfurt Book Fair, Gwyn Headley, Hachette, IDPF, Logical Marketing, London Book Fair, Meridien ParkHotel, Michael Cader, Peter McCarthy, Quarto, Sterling

I thought I was writing a blog, but it turns out I wrote a book!

April 15, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

An ebook of the first two years of The Shatzkin Files is now available and will be linked for the forseeable future from our left nav bar. This post is the introduction to the ebook, which explains how it came about. My friend, Joe Esposito, first told me about blogs in the early part of […]

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Welcome to The Shatzkin Files

February 22, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

When Joe Esposito first told me about blogs in about 2001 or so, there were very few. Michael Cader had PublishersLunch, but if Michael knew that it was an emailed blog, he didn’t tell me. And then blogs “happened”, as things do: gradually, then suddenly. And now I’m late to have one of my own. […]

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