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Opportunity doesn’t knock, it pounds!

February 5, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

In a recent post, I contemplated the developing ebook markets around the world, and particularly in Europe, and observed that ten years or more of digitization efforts in the English-speaking world would have a sizeable impact on the ebook markets in other language countries. When I wrote about this earlier, it was to enumerate the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models Tagged With: Borders, Fall of Giants, IfBookThen Conference, Ken Follett

All publishers and book retailers are global now

January 21, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

One of the key building blocks of my career was the six years I spent working on a program called “Publishing in the 21st Century” with Mark Bide and a team at Vista Computer Services (now Publishing Technologies) led by then-Chairman Denis Bennett, John Wicker (now at Tata Consulting Services), and Martyn Daniels (now at Value-Chain […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BISG, Cristina Mussinelli, Cullen Stanley, Denis Bennett, Google, IfBookThen Conference, Ingram, John Wicker, Kobo, Mark Bide, Martyn Daniels, Michael Cairns, Nook, OverDrive, Publishing Technologies, Sao Paolo Book Fair, Scott Lubeck, Tata Consulting Services, Value-Chain International, VISTA Computer Services

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