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Cool Springs Press, a gardening publisher that really understands “vertical”

June 23, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

As readers of this blog know, I’ve been on the “vertical” trail for a long time and I try to stay abreast of book publishers’ efforts to realize the advantages of subject specialization and community building. I wrote a whole post about the Sourcebooks initiative, Poetry Speaks, when it launched last Fall. I have often […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Cool Springs Press, Harvard Common Press, Hay House, Lark Crafts, Pixiq, Poetry Speaks, Roger Waynick, Sterling Publishing, Thomas Nelson

A roadmap for the future: 6 suggestions for today’s publishers that many can’t follow

June 13, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

I had occasion during this past week to speak at the global strategic meeting of Harlequin. Often when I am asked to speak, even internally to publishers, I am explicit told “we want you to scare the hell out of them.” Since I think of myself as a pretty unthreatening guy, I’m always a bit […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Chelsea Green, Cool Springs Press, F+W Media, Harlequin, Hay House, Ingram, Penguin, Random House, Simon & Schuster

My advice is not always easy to follow, but sometimes it proves right anyway

March 29, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago by a journalist who was working on a story about publishers and digital change. He was building something around my “Stay Ahead of the Shift” speech from last year’s Book Expo. “I was impressed by that speech,” he said. “You were very prescriptive about what publishers should do. So […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Bertelsmann, Book-of-the-Month Club, Cookstr, F+W Media, HarperCollins, Harvard Common Press, Hay House, Random House, Serious Eats

With new opportunities come new challenges

March 9, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

This blog and my speeches contain frequent references to what we see as the big shifts the book publishing industry, and some publishers more than others, are feeling. The horizontal and format-specific product-centric media of the 20th century are inexorably yielding to the vertical and format-agnostic community-centric delivery environment for content that will soon predominate. In […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Borders, Bruce Shaw, Chelsea Green, Copyright Clearance Center, Dominique Raccah, F+W Media, Harvard Common Press, Hay House, O'Reilly Media, Poetry Speaks, Safari, Sourcebooks, Wiley

The big guys don’t see the fundamental problem

December 17, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 54 Comments

The rapid series of developments in the digital book space and my rising profile mean that I seem to be in an interview with a journalist just about every day. As I was yesterday. The focus of yesterday’s conversation was the Baker & Taylor“Blio” platform that I wrote about last week. How widespread did I […]

Filed Under: Community, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Chelsea Green, F+W Media, Google, Hay House, Interweave, Michael Cader, Publishers Marketplace, Scribd, YouTube

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