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Upstream and downstream developments crowd publishers’ space

January 28, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

I had breakfast last summer with one of the titans of 20th century publishing who is now in his senior years running his own smaller operation. He’s a notorious non-techie. When we talked, he was trying to come to grips with what the problem for publishers was with this digital transition. From his perspective, publishing […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: "Open Secrets", "Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story", Amazon, BISG, Bowker, Brian Napack, David Nussbaum, iModerate, Jane Friedman, Jim Schachter, Macmillan, New York Times, Open Road, ProPublica, Richard Tofel, Sebastian Rotella, wikileaks

Don’t drown walking across the river

November 10, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

An aphorism that I picked up years ago that crosses my mind frequently in my professional life is that “a six-foot tall man drowns walking across a river that’s an average of three feet deep.” The point is that aggregates and averages might mask important truths. I thought of this when I read the news […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Association of Booksellers for Children, B&N, Bain Consultants, BISG, Bowker, Cader, Ellora's Cave, Forrester, iModerate, iPad, Kat Meyer, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, O'Reilly, Safari, Verso Media

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

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