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The support infrastructure for entities to publish is growing but the most important piece may not yet be provided

November 11, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

I remember a song lyric from the early 70s for which the opening line was: “we don’t need more sailors, we need a captain”. (I can’t find the reference in LyricFind and I don’t remember the name of the band.) That song could be about the new publishing that is arising from the phenomenon of […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling Tagged With: Amazon, atomization, BiblioCrunch, Blurb, Bruce Harris, Content Marketing Institute, ePubDirect, Fast Company, Forbes, Frederator Studios, Ingram, James Robinson, Joe Pulizzi, Lulu, Matt Cavner, Michael Cader, Molly Barton, Nathan Mhyrvold, OverDrive, Oyster, Richard Nash, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd, The Associated Press, The New York Times, Thought Catalog, unbundling, US News & World Report

Things learned and thoughts provoked by London Book Fair 2012

April 24, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 47 Comments

This post contains a batch of observations from this year’s London Book Fair. Some of it recalled an experience from about 20 years ago. We’ll begin there. In the early 1990s, Microsoft was on a mission to get computer hardware manufacturers to install CD-Rom drives in new machines. Microsoft had a very simple motivation. Software […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Allen Lau, Amazon, Andrew Steele, Audible, Belinda Rasmussen, Bloomsbury, Bob Young, Charlie Redmayne, Copyright Clearance Center, Digital Minds, Eric Huang, Evan Schnittman, Fionnuala Duggan, Funny or Die, Hachette Book Group USA, International Course Smart, Jeff Gomez, Kate Wilson, Lulu, Michael Healy, Microsoft, Nosy Crow, Pan Macmillan, Penguin, Pottermore, Publishing Point, Random House UK, Recorded Books, Sara Lloyd, Starlight Runner Entertainment, Susan Danziger, The Great Debate, Wattpad

Making Information Pay 2010: Points of No Return

May 10, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

We have a program packed with information which we always strive for here at Making Information Pay. This conference, as usual, is about what’s changing in our publishing world right now and how we should address it. Before I walk us through this morning’s program, I want to give you two snapshots of the future, first as I see it and then as it was reflected in the answers you and others gave to the survey that tied into this year’s event.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Author Solutions, Barnes & Noble, Bertelsmann, Big Six, BISG, Bookmasters, Books-a-Million, Borders, Bowker, brick-and-mortar, disintermediation, eBooks, Facebook, Gilbane Group, Hachette, Harvard Common Press, Kaplan, Lulu, Macmillan, Making Information Pay, Open Road, Print-On-Demand, Publishing Technology, Random House, SBS Worldwide, Scribd, Smashwords, Sterling Commerce, Twitter, Wolters Kluwer

Serious disruption just over the near horizon

April 7, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 74 Comments

The monthly release of ebook sales figures by the IDPF provides a regular reminder about how fast this market is growing and it always provokes me to project the curve into the future and think about the implications. It was an IDPF data release that triggered the thought that we needed a “Tipping Points” panel […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Author Solutions, BISG, Bookmasters, Carolyn Reidy, IDPF, Lulu, Making Information Pay, Simon & Schuster, Ted Hill

Ebook complexity: good news for publishers

June 3, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

We are working on a project in this office to “grid” the ebook world. We’ll have a hard time doing it in fewer than four dimensions. What we see as “major headings” are: 1) hardware/readingdevices, 2) software/platforms, 3) file formats, and 4) ebook retailers. And after we get that sorted out, we’ll start thinking about […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BookSurge, Content Reserve, Cool-er Reader, Google, Indigo, Ingram, Kindle, Lulu, Shortcovers, Smashwords

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