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“The Family Business” is Ingram: the global infrastructure for the book industry

April 19, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The global infrastructure for the book business that is not Amazon is owned and operated by the Ingram Content Group. In fact, a lot of the global infrastructure of the book business that is identified as Amazon is actually Ingram. And on top of that, there would probably have been no Amazon, certainly not the […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Behemoth: Amazon Rising" by Robin Gaster, "Book Wars" by John B. Thompson, "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know" by Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger, Bronson Ingram, Bruce Harris, Coresource, HarperCollins, Harry Hoffman, Ingram Content Group, Ingram Spark, Jack Stambaugh, John Ingram, Karl Weber, Keel Hunt, Lightning Print, Michael Zibart, Penguin Random House, Tennessee Book Company, Tennessee School Book Depository, Vanderbilt business school

News this week that demonstrates how timely Digital Book World programming can be…and a thought about Amazon bookstores

February 4, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 25 Comments

There are some days that the news I see just makes me feel so good about the programming we’re doing for this year’s Digital Book World. One of those days was earlier this week when the news pointed directly to three items on our program. As I wrote in the last post, we have an entire […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, rights, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: "Put Me in the Story", "This Is Your Cookbook", Abbott Communications, Barnes & Noble, Charlotte Abbott, DeSilva + Phillips, Dominique Raccah, Fred Argir, Harvard Common Press, Ingram Content Group, Joanna Stone Herman, John Ingram, Katherine McCahill, Ken Fund, Marcus Leaver, Mary Ann Naples, NetGalley, Penguin Random House, Quarto, QuartoKnows, Rodale, Sourcebooks, South by Southwest, Susan Ruszala, SXSW, Wall Street Journal

Publishers Launch conference at BEA will cover a wide range of digital change issues

May 29, 2012 by Jess 7 Comments

What are the important topics to discuss today concerning publishing and digital change? I think we’ve got most of them covered at Publishers Launch BEA, the one-day conference we’ll stage at the Javits Center next Monday, June 4. Our all-day event has sixteen distinct presentations and panels. There may be a topic of interest to […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "What Technology Wants", Aerbooks, Amanda Close, Baker & Taylor, Blanca Rosa Roca, Bowker, Carolyn Pittis, Chris Bauerle, Chris Dufault, Citia, cloud services, Codex, Comixology, Copyright Clearance Center, Curtis Brown, Dan Vidra, David Cully, David Steinberger, David Wilk, David Wolfson, F+W Media, Fritz Foy, Hachette Book Group USA, HarperCollins, Hugh McGuire, Ingram Content Group, Jack Perry, Javier Celaya, Jean Naggar Agency, Jennifer Weltz, Joe Mangan, Kelly Gallagher, Ken Michaels, Kevin Kelly, Kindle, Kobo, Laura Daily, Laura Hazard Owen, Linda Holliday, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Michael Tamblyn, Molly Barton, PaidContent, Patricia Arancibia, Penguin, Perseus, Peter Hildick-Smith, Phil Ollila, Pressbooks, Publishers Lunch, Publishing in the Cloud, Random House, Rick Joyce, Ron Martinez, SaaS, Sara Domville, Scott Stein, Semi-Linear, Simon & Schuster, Simon Lipskar, Sourcebooks, textr, Tim Knowlton, Tor.com, USA Today, Waterstone's, Writer's House

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

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