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New Zealand is a beautiful country that is at the end of the line in the global English-language book supply chain

February 7, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Quite aside from being stunningly beautiful from top to bottom, New Zealand is unique, a nation of 4-1/2 million English speakers that is not on the way to anyplace else. When you go to New Zealand, you go on purpose. And you arrive on a large boat or a large plane, not by some improvised […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Anne Kennedy, Baker & Taylor, HarperCollins, Ingram, Joan MacKenzie, Martha Moran, New Zealand, Penguin Random House, Whitcoulls

Learned (or figured out) at BEA 2012

June 11, 2012 by Admin 34 Comments

BookExpo America, trade publishing’s industry-wide gathering, just completed what must be considered another successful year at Javits Center last week. Attendance was pretty much what it had been last year and the lines for autographs on the convention floor certainly gave off the feeling of enthusiasm and excitement that publishers want to see. Convention roundups […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Abrams, Aerbook Maker, Avalon, BIC, Bill Newlin, BISG, BookExpo America, BookScan, Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, Crown, Doubleday, Fabbri, Firebrand, Fran Toolan, Joe Friedman, John Locke, Jonathan Nowell, Karina Luke, Laura Hazard Owen, Martha Moran, Martin Levin, Marvello Vena, Michael Cader, New American Library, Penguin, Perseus, RCS Libri, RCS Media, Rizzoli, Ron Martinez, Times Mirror Publishing

Long ago at the Los Angeles Times Book Review

December 22, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

Although the decline of newspaper book review sections is just a sub-set of the larger sadness of the overall demise of newspapers, I was struck by the recent report of the mighty Los Angeles Times Book Review being stripped down to practically nothing. I haven’t read it for years, but this news made me think about […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Digby Diehl, Los Angeles Times, Martha Moran, Robert Kirsch, UCLA, Up With People

Music stories: a bit about The Drongos

March 20, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 39 Comments

My wife, Martha Moran, and I managed a rock and roll band 25 years ago. They were called The Drongos. They were four intrepid young New Zealanders who had come to America with an itinerant theatrical troupe and stayed when the itinerants moved on. They made pretty close to a living playing on New York […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Alice Barrett, Jean McAllister, Martha Moran, Richard Kennedy, Stanley John Mitchell, The Drongos, Tony McMaster

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