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Nothing happens over 4th of July weekend, except this year

July 4, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

Monday, July 4, was supposed to be a quiet day in the publishing business. It turns out it wasn’t. Three developments reported as special holiday bulletins by Publishers Lunch have strategic implications worth pondering that will have trade publishing people all over the world conferring with their friends and colleagues as soon as they shake […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Angus & Robertson, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Christopher Little Agency, Don Engel, Eleanor Shatzkin, F+W Media, Interweave, J.K. Rowling, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft, Mobi, MS Reader, Neil Blair, O'Reilly, Palm, Pearson, Penguin, Publishers Lunch, REDGroup, The Book Depository, Wiley

The digital transition really IS harder for trade publishers than for other publishers

July 30, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

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Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing Tagged With: Business Week, Chelsea Green, F+W Media, Hachette, Hay House, Mark Bide, McGraw-Hill, VISTA Computer Services

Stay Ahead of the Shift: What Publishers Can Do to Flourish in a Community-Centric Web World

May 29, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

Speech given at BEA 2009. Focusing on the changes that will take place in publishing in the next 20 years. With a look back to the last 20 years, we are able to look forward and predict not only how publishing will be in the future, but also how information will be shared.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, B2B, B2C, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, BEA, BISAC code, blog, Bloomsbury, Borders, CD, cloud, craigslist, Crown, DRM, eBooks, epub, Facebook, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, horizontal, iPhone, iPod, Lulu, McGraw-Hill, metrics, Nelson, Ning, O-Reilly, Penguin, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Taylor & Francis, television, The Safari Bookshelf, Tools of Change, Twitter, verticle, Wikipedia, Wiley

A New Project: “StartwithXML, Why and How”

September 12, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

We have turned our attention to a problem we believe will occupy just about all publishers in the years to come, the opportunities and challenges presented by an XML workflow that starts with the author, or even before there is an author.

Why should you care? Because the world we live in is changing, and XML is the key to mastering the change

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: BISAC code, BISG, codeMantra, Daily Lit, eBooks, Jouve, Klopotek, LJNDawson, Magellan Media, McGraw-Hill, O'Reilly Media, Print-On-Demand, Publishing Dimensions, Rosetta Solutions, THA Consulting, XML

Where the Web Is Taking Us: The Inevitable Future and the Publisher’s Role In It

May 29, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The basic premise under which we’re operating here, I’ll summarize for those of you have never heard or read my work before, is that horizontal, format-specific media entities are oh, so 20th century, and won’t work very deep into the 21st. The reason for that is the web, which almost forces vertical organization. Horizontal presentations across subject matter — like CBS, Random House, or The New York Times — were the products of a capital-intensive, limited-distribution universe

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, AuthorHouse, B2B, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, BEA, Berrett-Koehler, Blackberry, blog, Borders, CBS, eBooks, Facebook, Google, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Hay House, horizontal, Ingram, iPhone, Kindle, LibraryThing, Lulu, McGraw-Hill, MySpace, Ning, O'Reilly Media, Print-On-Demand, Random House, RSS, Shelfari, Simon & Schuster, television, The Long Tail, Twitter, verticles, XML, YouTube

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