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 […]
Pointing to two posts all or largely mine that are not on this site
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 […]
Big focus at DBW 2016 on the tech companies that are shaping the world the book business has to live in
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 — […]