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Should trade publishers start ditching their B2B imprints for a B2C world?

April 2, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

I spent last Friday at the On Copyright 2012 conference staged by my clients at Copyright Clearance Center. CCC is an organization dedicated to generating revenue for content creators from what is referred to as “secondary” licensing, or uses that are not core to the publisher’s revenue stream and which are often impossible to manage […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events Tagged With: "Free Ride", Big Six, CCC, Copyright Clearance, Crown, Farrar Straus, Grand Central, Hachette Book Group USA, Knopf, Little Brown, Macmillan, Maja Thomas, Michael Healy, On Copyright 2012, Penguin, Random House, Robert Levine, Scribners, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Viking

Ebooks are making me recall the history of mass-market publishing

March 13, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

The ebook revolution is really beginning to remind me of the mass-market papeback revolution. The mass paperback was really “invented” by Sir Allan Lane when he created Penguin in Britain before World War II. (Wikipedia credits a German publisher with the first cheap paperbacks a few years earlier, but Lane was certainly the first in […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Anchor Books, Avon, Ballantine, Bantam, Bill Shinker, Brentano's Bookstore, Doubleday, Doubleday Book Stores, Hachette, HarperCollins, It's A Wonderful Life, Jason Epstein, Leonard Shatzkin, Little Brown, Louis L'Amour, Macmillan, Penguin, Peter Mayer, Philip Van Doren Stern, Pocket Books, Random House, Scribner's Bookstore, Sid Gross, Signet, Sir Allan Lane, Sport Magazine, Viking, Warner Books

The printed book’s path to oblivion

August 15, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 124 Comments

The “death” of the printed book has been under discussion for a long time. (I gave a speech with that subject as the title to publishers in Spain in 1997 — with a question mark after it and predicting correctly that the most immediate impact of digital change would be that we’d sell more printed […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Hachette Book Group, Little Brown, Nicholas Negroponte, Pete Hamill

Some thoughts about piracy

November 25, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

As part of the program-creation process for Digital Book World, I had a round of conversations with the top executives of the Big Six companies to discuss the agenda, mostly with the CEOs. The purpose of the check-ins was to find out what topics the CEOs wanted their companies to speak about and, of course, […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Brian Napack, H1N1, Hachette, Little Brown, Macmillan, Mark Coker, O'Reilly Media, Smashwords, Wiley

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