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Are free ebooks a good idea or not?

January 24, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 47 Comments

Kindle is certainly engendering a lot of confusion by billboarding the downloads of free ebooks as “sales.” That paradoxical scorekeeping was the lead for an article by Motoko Rich in The New York Times on Saturday that quoted a lot of people, some apparently disagreeing with each other, but none of them necessarily wrong. There […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Free", Amazon, Brian O'Leary, Chris Anderson, David Young, DRM, Hachette, Harper Collins, HarperStudio blog, Hyperion, Kindle, Kobo, Len Shatzkin, Magellan Media, Michael Tamblyn, Mindy Stockfield, Motoko Rich, New York Times, Penguin, Random House, Steve Ross, Tim McCall, USA Today

Reality changes more slowly than I like to think

July 8, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I did a panel yesterday at NYU as part of the summer publishing program on “New Visions” for publishing. The group was put together by Leslie Schnur. I shared the stage with four very articulate co-presenters who gave very diverse views of the future. Our audience was a full room of about 50-100 (I wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Chuckles, eBooks, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Author Solutions, Brian O'Leary, Carol Hoenig, Cookstr, Dan Simon, Leslie Schnur, Magellan Media, NYU, Seven Stories Press, Will Schwalbe

A New Project: “StartwithXML, Why and How”

September 12, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

We have turned our attention to a problem we believe will occupy just about all publishers in the years to come, the opportunities and challenges presented by an XML workflow that starts with the author, or even before there is an author.

Why should you care? Because the world we live in is changing, and XML is the key to mastering the change

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: BISAC code, BISG, codeMantra, Daily Lit, eBooks, Jouve, Klopotek, LJNDawson, Magellan Media, McGraw-Hill, O'Reilly Media, Print-On-Demand, Publishing Dimensions, Rosetta Solutions, THA Consulting, XML

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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