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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

Do enhanced ebooks create a comeback trail for packagers?

February 20, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 19 Comments

This post contains a reference to our next conference effort: this year’s Making Information Pay for the Book Industry Study Group. There is a survey associated with this conference about how processes and job descriptions are changing that we really hope everybody employed in a publishing house — particularly those people involved in editorial, production, marketing, […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Enhanced ebook university, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, BISG, Blio, Brad Inman, Dorling Kindersley, EEBU, Enhanced Editions, Making Information Pay, Mark Twain, Octopus, Paul Hamlyn, Peter Collingridge, Peter Meyers, Quarto, Scrollmotion, Tools of Change, Vook

Shifting Sales Channels, and What Publishers Are Doing About Them

March 10, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

We (Ted Hill of THA Consulting and I) are working with BISG again this year on their Making Information Pay conference. Last year we did a project on “Experimentation and Innovation” where we used both an online survey and interviews to surface the issues we captured in a research paper and then formed the backbone […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Experimentation and Innovation", "Shifting Sales Channels", BISG, Book Industry Study Group, custom publishing, Making Information Pay, online sales, Ted Hill

Success in a Parallel Universe: Perhaps with Some Help from Your DAD

May 10, 2007 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

We’re going to discuss a subject this morning that was on hardly any radar screens a year ago; it would not have been a compelling subject for presentation at last year’s Making Information Pay. But today, Digital Asset Distribution is on a lot of minds. What happened?

After all, book content has been going out on the web for quite a while. My company did a digital marketing program for a book called “Longitude” in late 1995 which centered around offering a free chapter through relevant web sites. For several years, Amazon has had a program showing interior book pages, starting out as “Look Inside” and now “Search Inside the Book”. Lots of publishers participated, but didn’t instantly express a need to manage their own digital distribution

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Accenture, Amazon, Apple, BiblioVault, BookStore, codeMantra, CPI, DAD, DAP, DAR, Donnelley, Google, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, Ingram, iPhone, iPod, Klopotek, Lightning, Macmillan, Making Information Pay, Managers of Unlimited Metadata, metadata, Microsoft, MySpace, netLibrary, NewsStand, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Sony, television, University of Chicago, Value-Chain International

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