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February 12, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

It is a safe contention that few people whose primary career motivation is “to get rich” go into book publishing. What attracts folks to our business are other life objectives. Over the six decades I’ve been interacting with publishing professionals, I have come to see that reality as a feature, not a bug. It is […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Conferences, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, BISG, Book Industry Study Group, Brian O'Leary, climatechangeresources.org, Constance Sayre, Dan McNamee, Dan Weiss, Lena Tabori, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners International, Martin Levin, Publishing and Media Group, Robert Riger, Sandy Paul, SparkNotes

Crafting a publishing strategy to address a very specific need

February 14, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

Lena Tabori is, like me, a book publishing lifer who wants to work on climate change. She was an executive at Abrams when I met her and went on to be a founder of illustrated book publisher Stewart Tabori & Chang and then Welcome Books, the book publishing arm of her Welcome Enterprises. (Lena recently […]

Filed Under: Marketing, New Models, Politics, Publishing Tagged With: 350.org, Abrams, Al Gore, Benjamin Harlow, Bill McKibben, Citizens Climate Lobby, climatechangeresources.com, ClimateNexus, Environmental Defense Fund, Lena Tabori, Martin Levin, Mary Tiegreen, Publishers Lunch, Rizzoli, Sierra Club, Stewart Tabori & Chang, Welcome Books, Welcome Enterprises

Learned (or figured out) at BEA 2012

June 11, 2012 by Jess 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

For big publishers: what scales and what doesn’t?

July 14, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

The last post I did got more attention than anything on the blog in quite some time, but for somewhat different reasons than I intended. My central point about what increasingly common ebook growth predictions would mean for brick-and-mortar sales (that they’d decline sharply over the next five years) was that it diluted the core […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Ingram, Martin Levin, Michael Cairns, Persona Non Data

BEA will be a shame to lose, but can it be saved?

June 1, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

Dinner Saturday night. 12 of us. Three spouses who had no particular interest in the BEA. Eight of us with one interest or another in the book business, but no possibility of personally being an exhibitor. And one publishing company CEO with a stand. Of course, I got my money’s worth. I got in free as […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: BEA, Bookmasters, F+W, Frankfurt Book Fair, Klopotek, Martin Levin, Michael Cairns, Richard Nash, Taunton, Wiley

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