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What will be the big digital issues in January 2011?

May 16, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

I have found a way to describe the difference between the Digital Book World conference we organize for F+W Media and the O’Reilly conference Tools of Change which I believe is accurate and is certainly not intended to be a pejorative description of  Tools of Change. I go to TOC and I find it very valuable, but different […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: App Store, B&N, B&T, Blio, Content Reserve, Copia, Disney, F+W Media, iBooks, Ingram Digital, Ingram Publisher Services, J. A. Konrath, Jane Friedman, Kindle, LibreDigital, NBN, Nook, O'Reilly, Open Road, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Perseus, Pixiq, Poetry Speaks, Safari, Sony, Sterling, Tools of Change

Debut pricing: my idea, great idea, unfortunately can’t work

August 28, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

In the words of Emily Litella, the Saturday Night Live character of the 1970s invented by Gilda Radner, “never mind.” I’m referring to my post about “debut pricing” from earlier this week. It can’t be done; at least not easily and at least not immediately. The challenges we face require a continuing conversation and crowds […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bran Hambric, Content Reserve, Dominique Raccah, epub, Fictionwise, Google, Ingram Digital, Shortcovers

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