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Newspaper publishers face very different and much more immediate threats than book publishers

November 15, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

The business news has been very painful for newspapers lately. A piece we saw a couple of days ago says both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are going to cut back sharply on their arts coverage. The advertising simply isn’t there to support it. And recently before that, we read a […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Subscriptions, Vertical Tagged With: Business Week, Los Angeles Times, Michael Cairns, National Review, New York Times, Newsday, Newsweek, NY Daily News, ProPublica, Sport, The Nation, The National, The New Republic, The Sporting News, Time, US News & World Report

All publishers and book retailers are global now

January 21, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

One of the key building blocks of my career was the six years I spent working on a program called “Publishing in the 21st Century” with Mark Bide and a team at Vista Computer Services (now Publishing Technologies) led by then-Chairman Denis Bennett, John Wicker (now at Tata Consulting Services), and Martyn Daniels (now at Value-Chain […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BISG, Cristina Mussinelli, Cullen Stanley, Denis Bennett, Google, IfBookThen Conference, Ingram, John Wicker, Kobo, Mark Bide, Martyn Daniels, Michael Cairns, Nook, OverDrive, Publishing Technologies, Sao Paolo Book Fair, Scott Lubeck, Tata Consulting Services, Value-Chain International, VISTA Computer Services

For big publishers: what scales and what doesn’t?

July 14, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

The last post I did got more attention than anything on the blog in quite some time, but for somewhat different reasons than I intended. My central point about what increasingly common ebook growth predictions would mean for brick-and-mortar sales (that they’d decline sharply over the next five years) was that it diluted the core […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Ingram, Martin Levin, Michael Cairns, Persona Non Data

A brilliant Conference Council helps make a great Digital Book World

June 25, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

We had a very successful debut annual conference for Digital Book World last January, even though we didn’t conceive the idea until June, put together a group of helpers (which we now call our Conference Council) until July, or draft the initial program until August. This year we’re way ahead of that schedule. We’ve put […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Adam Salamone, Association of Booksellers for Children, Baker & Taylor, BISG, Borders, Brian Napack, Cengage, Charlie Redmayne, Copyright Clearance Center, Cory Smith, David Blansfield, David Cully, David Nussbaum, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, F+W Media, Filedby, Frankfurt Book Fair, GiantChair, Google, Guy Gonzalez, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harvard Common Press, ICM, Ingram Content Companies, Jane Friedman, Joe Esposito, John Ingram, John Schline, John Wiley & Sons, Kaplan, Kate Rados, Ken Brooks, Kobo, Kristen McLean, Larry Norton, Lorraine Shanley, Macmillan, Madeline McIntosh, Maja Thomas, Marcus Leaver, Mark Gompertz, Market Partners International, Matt Mullin, Maureen McMahon, Michael Cader, Michael Cairns, Michael Tamblyn, Open Road, Overdrive Systems, Oxford University Press, Penguin, Persona Non Data, Peter Balis, Peter Clifton, Publishers Marketplace, Random House, Sara Domville, Scott Lubeck, Scott Waxman, Simon & Schuster, Simon Lipskar, Sloan Harris, Smashwords, Sourcebooks, Sterling Publishing, Steve Potash, Ted Hill, THA Consulting, Thomas Minkus, Tom Turvey, Tracey Armstrong, Waxman Agency, Writer's House

BEA will be a shame to lose, but can it be saved?

June 1, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

Dinner Saturday night. 12 of us. Three spouses who had no particular interest in the BEA. Eight of us with one interest or another in the book business, but no possibility of personally being an exhibitor. And one publishing company CEO with a stand. Of course, I got my money’s worth. I got in free as […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: BEA, Bookmasters, F+W, Frankfurt Book Fair, Klopotek, Martin Levin, Michael Cairns, Richard Nash, Taunton, Wiley

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