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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

Lots going on; no single topic today

July 20, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

I find myself with a lot of pages open on my web browser. Even before Amazon’s announcement yesterday about ebooks passing hardcovers in sales this past quarter, there has been a lot going on. There had been some suggestions, which I never bought into, that ebook sales were slowing in 2009. (Is this a meme […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Cool Springs Press, Farrar Straus & Giroux, IDPF, Joe Konrath, Joe Wikert, Kat Meyer, Kindle, Knopf, Madeline McIntosh, O'Reilly, Oprah, Publishers Weekly, Random House, Wall Street Journal

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