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Agents who come to Digital Book World will learn a lot they can immediately apply

February 15, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The mission of the Digital Book World conference is industry education around digital change. There is a plethora of programming for this year’s event that will serve that purpose particularly well for literary agents. Of all the people in the industry, it would seem to me that agents would get the fastest and surest “return […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, rights, Self-Publishing, SEO, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Atria, Author Earnings, Barnes & Noble, Boersenverein, Copyright Clearance Center, Data Guy, Diversion Books, Dystel & Goderich, Evan Schnittman, Facebook, Fred Argir, Google, Hugh Howey, Jaime Levine, Jane Dystel, Jane Friedman, Jessica Saenger, Johanna Castillo, Jon Taplin, Jonathan Kanter, Julie Trelstad, Michael Cader, Mostly Marketing Masterclasses, Moz, Publishers Launch Kids, Rand Fishkin, Roy Kaufman, S&S, Scott Galloway, Virginia Heffernan, Writer's House

The publishing world is changing, but there is one big dog that has not yet barked

August 5, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 112 Comments

Recent data seem to show that, for the publishers, the growth in the retail ebook market has slowed down or stopped (at least for the moment), while Amazon’s ebook sales apparently continue to grow. The share of the market controlled by the publishing establishment — the Big Five publishers and others — is starting to be […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Go Set A Watchman", "To Kill A Mockingbird", Amazon, Apple, Big Five, Donnelley, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Hugh Howey, Ingram, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, KU, Michael Cader, Nook, Oyster, Perseus, PRH, Scribd, United Artists

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 support infrastructure for entities to publish is growing but the most important piece may not yet be provided

November 11, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

I remember a song lyric from the early 70s for which the opening line was: “we don’t need more sailors, we need a captain”. (I can’t find the reference in LyricFind and I don’t remember the name of the band.) That song could be about the new publishing that is arising from the phenomenon of […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Unbundling Tagged With: Amazon, atomization, BiblioCrunch, Blurb, Bruce Harris, Content Marketing Institute, ePubDirect, Fast Company, Forbes, Frederator Studios, Ingram, James Robinson, Joe Pulizzi, Lulu, Matt Cavner, Michael Cader, Molly Barton, Nathan Mhyrvold, OverDrive, Oyster, Richard Nash, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd, The Associated Press, The New York Times, Thought Catalog, unbundling, US News & World Report

Frankfurt is still vast, but it seems to be getting smaller

October 17, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

I’ve spent more than half-a-year of my life in Frankfurt, one week at a time. My first Fair was 1976 so this would have been my 39th if I attended them all. I think I missed two, so that’s 37. I love it and I get enormous commercial benefit from it. I can’t understand people […]

Filed Under: Conferences, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History Tagged With: BEA, BISG, Casablanca Bar, Charlie Nurnberg, Frankfurt Book Fair, Gwyn Headley, Hachette, IDPF, Logical Marketing, London Book Fair, Meridien ParkHotel, Michael Cader, Peter McCarthy, Quarto, Sterling

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