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Medium publishes a book and gets some big PR

October 8, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The New York Times carried a story on the front page of its Friday Business section about a book. This book is a novel entitled (appropriately for this piece) “The Big Disruption” by Jessica Powell. Of course, it is about Silicon Valley, which explains its positioning and why Times columist Farhad Manjoo was interested enough […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, rights, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "The Big Disruption", Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, CreateSpace, Farhad Manjoo, Google, Ingram, IngramSpark, Jessica Powell, Kindle, Kobo, Medium, New York Times

Pointing to two posts all or largely mine that are not on this site

September 13, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

Readers of The Shatzkin Files might be interested in two current posts in other places. One carries my byline and is not about publishing. The other is an extensive interview with me about “what if Barnes & Noble disappeared?” The Barnes & Noble piece is a Nathan Bransford blogpost. It is totally relevant content for […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Politics, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, climate change, Medium, Nathan Bransford, taxing carbon, www.climatechangeresources.com

Big focus at DBW 2016 on the tech companies that are shaping the world the book business has to live in

November 17, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

Realities change. Ever since Amazon arrived in the “book business” 20 years ago, each year the “book business” has become less and less of a stand-alone industry. Of course, the only part that ever really was a stand-alone was the trade business, where the entire ecosystem: authors and their agents, publishers, booksellers, and even — […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art", "Mean Streets", "Sleeping Through A Revolution", "The Last Waltz", Amazon, Annenberg School, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Bob Dylan, Borders, Excel< Word, F+W, Facebook, Google, Grateful Dead, Jeff Bezos, Jon Taplin, Jonathan Kanter, Medium, Microsoft, Moz, NYU Stern School of Business, O'Reilly Media, Rand Fishkin, Scott Galloway, search engine optimization, SEO, Silicon Valley, The Band, The New York Times Magazine, Tools of Change, University of Southern California, Virginia Heffernan

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