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If the industry is changing, publishing house structures, processes, and budgets need to change too

March 17, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 30 Comments

A thought kept recurring — one I’ve written about before — while I was learning new stuff at Digital Book World last week. The structure of publishing houses and of the publishing process as it has developed over the past century make some of the challenges and opportunities of publishing in the emerging digital era […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models Tagged With: "Put Me in the Story", Amazon, Andrew Rhomberg, Data Guy, DBW, Dominique Raccah, Jellybooks, Jess Johns, Logical Marketing Agency, Marcus Leaver, Mary Ann Naples, New York Times, Pete McCarthy, Quarto, Quarto Knows, Rodale, Simple Truths, Sourcebooks

News this week that demonstrates how timely Digital Book World programming can be…and a thought about Amazon bookstores

February 4, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 25 Comments

There are some days that the news I see just makes me feel so good about the programming we’re doing for this year’s Digital Book World. One of those days was earlier this week when the news pointed directly to three items on our program. As I wrote in the last post, we have an entire […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, rights, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: "Put Me in the Story", "This Is Your Cookbook", Abbott Communications, Barnes & Noble, Charlotte Abbott, DeSilva + Phillips, Dominique Raccah, Fred Argir, Harvard Common Press, Ingram Content Group, Joanna Stone Herman, John Ingram, Katherine McCahill, Ken Fund, Marcus Leaver, Mary Ann Naples, NetGalley, Penguin Random House, Quarto, QuartoKnows, Rodale, Sourcebooks, South by Southwest, Susan Ruszala, SXSW, Wall Street Journal

Looking at predictions from here going back a few years

December 13, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

Prediction posts are common blog- and article-fodder at the end of a calendar year. I don’t think we’ll do one this time around, but I thought it would be fun to review some of the prediction posts from prior years. So pardon the highly self-referential post, but I think reviewing the predictions and reality from […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Amazon Publishing, Apple, Authonomy, Barnes & Noble, Bob Miller, BookArmy, Borders, HarperCollins, iPhone, iPod, John Ingram, Kindle, Mary Ann Naples, Mediander, Michael Cader, Mike Fine, Penguin, Predictions, PW, Random House, Simon Lipskar

“Scale” is a theme everybody in publishing needs to be thinking about, so we’ve made it the focus of our next Publishers Launch Conference

May 8, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

The overarching theme of our upcoming Publishers Launch Conference at BookExpo America on May 29 is “scale”. I thank my PLC partner, Michael Cader, for urging that we label that as a core concern worthy of being the centerpiece for a day’s discussion. (With that nudge, I identified “scale”, along with “verticalization” and “atomization”, as […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale Tagged With: Abrams, Adam Silverman, Aerbook, Alison Uncles, Amazon, Andrea Fleck-Nisbet, Apple, Ben Evans, BookExpo America, Brian Defiore, Brian Napack, Carolyn Pittis, Chicago Tribune, Crown Illustrated, Dan Lubart, David Nussbaum, David Wilk, Defiore and Company, Dorling Kindersley, Doug Stambaugh, Enders Analysis, F+W Media, Facebook, Folio Literary Management, Frederator Books, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Inkling, Iobyte Solutions, Jeff Abraham, Jennifer Day, John Wiley, Joseph Craven, Ken Michaels, Lauren Shakely, Lindy Humphreys, Lorraine Shanley, Macmillan, Market Partners International, Mary Ann Naples, Michael Cader, Microsoft, Penguin, Pete McCarthy, Peter Balis, Providence Equity Partners, Quarto Group, Random House, Robert Gottlieb, Rodale, Ron Martinez, Scott Hoffman, Simon & Schuster, Steve Kobrin, Tim Greco, Toronto Star/Star Dispatches, Trident Media Group, Wharton Digital Press, Workman

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