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Headliners galore will address Digital Book World 2015

December 18, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

Half of Digital Book World is delivered to the entire audience from the Main Stage. The speakers for 2015 comprise the most illustrious group we have ever had. The headine is definitely that we have managed to corral both Amazon and Apple speakers for our main stage — a feat we don’t believe any other […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It", "Put Me in the Story", "The Innovators", Alloy, Amazon, Amplify, Apple, Atria, Bit.ly, Brian Murray, Content Marketing Institute, David Nussbaum, Google, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Hilary Mason, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I See Me, iBookstore, James Robinson, Joe Pulizzi, Jonathan Nowell, Judith Curr, Keith Moerer, Ken Auletta, Kickstarter, Launch Kids, Linda Zecher, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners International, Matthew Greenfield, Michael Cader, Nielsen Book, Paper Lantern Lit, Rethink Education, Rick Chapman, Russ Grandinetti, S&S, Seth Godin, Sourcebooks, Speakaboos, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Thomas Nelson, Walter Isaacson, Wattpad

The motivation of the publisher-bashing commentariat is what I cannot figure out

September 29, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 318 Comments

Once again this morning we wake up to a piece by David Streitfeld in The New York Times about Authors United and their ongoing effort to discredit Amazon. The message coming loud and clear from the legacy publishing establishment is that Amazon doesn’t appreciate, and perhaps doesn’t understand, the value that agents, publishers, and chain and […]

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