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2020: Zero year thoughts about the changes in book publishing

January 7, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Years that end in zeroes summon a natural tendency to look backwards and forwards. So as we enter this century’s decade of The 20s, we’ll do just that. The ideas in this piece analyze what is mostly anecdata: “facts” that are real, that I’ve vetted with people who have lived through these times with me, […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know", 2020, Barnes & Noble, Books in Print, Borders, Dalton, decades and centuries and zero years, In Cold Type, Ingram, Leonard Shatzkin, Lightning Print, Lightning Source, Robert Paris Riger, Robert Riger, St. Martin's Press, Thomas McCormack, Walden

Getting an award and getting caught up with innovation with BISG

April 21, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The Book Industry Study Group, or BISG, is a book publishing trade organization now headed by Brian O’Leary that was formed to be pan-industry. They were preceded by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the American Booksellers Association (ABA), but those were two “sides” of the book trade with their own interests, and they […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Alison Rich, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BISG, Book Industry Study Group, Booknet Canada, Bradley Metrock, Brian O'Leary, Carolyn Pittis, Christopher Kenneally, climatechangeresources.org, Copyright Clearance Center, Curtis Brown, Dominique Raccah, Eleanor Shatzkin, Ginger Clark, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Ingram, Jess Johns, Kindle, Lena Tabori, Leonard Shatzkin, Maja Thomas, Michael Tamblyn, MVB U.S. Michael Cader, Planned Production, PRH, PublishersLunch, Rakuten Kobo, ReaderLink, Sally Dedecker, Sandy Paul, Sourcebooks, Story Fit, Ted Hill, Wattpad, Welman Digital

Dick McCullough was a great client for me, a great boss for many, and a great guy for everybody

June 18, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

I hadn’t seen Dick McCullough, who was my most-fun-to-work-with client of all time and the best leader I ever met in the corporate world, for at least a few years when I got a phone call from him at 7pm last New Year’s Eve. He was calling to tell me that he had just had […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: ABA Convention, Charles Ellis, Crowell-Collier, Dan McNamee, Dick McCullough, George Stanley, Harry McCullough, Jess Johns, John Wiley, Leonard Shatzkin, Macmillan, Michael Bennett, Peter Clifton, Peter McCarthy, Rich Freese, Scribners, Stewart Wolpin, Teresa Hartnett, Warren Sullivan

The reality of publishing economics has changed for the big players

September 19, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

A veteran agent who was formerly a publisher confirmed a point for me about how trade publishing has changed over the past two decades, particularly for the big houses. This challenges a fundamental tenet of my father’s understanding of the business. (And that’s the still the source of most of mine.) I had long suspected […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, Hillary Clinton for President, Leonard Shatzkin, Publishing People for Hillary, Roy Campanella, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Cory Booker, St. Martin's Press, Tom McCormack, Walden, Yogi Berra

Barnes and Noble faces a challenge that has not been clearly spelled out

August 23, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

The sudden dismissal of Ron Boire, the CEO of Barnes & Noble, follows the latest financial reporting from Barnes & Noble and has inspired yet another round of analysis about their future. When the financial results were released last month, there was a certain amount of celebrating over the fact that store closings are down […]

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