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Getting Mark Coker right this time and agreeing with him up to a point

March 12, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

On Tuesday, for the first time in the five years I have been writing this blog, I did a post I would like to take back. (But in the interest of the public record, and because there were several comments of value, I’m leaving it up.) This is the post that I should have written […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: CCC, Diversion, Faber, Great Debate, Huffington Post, Hugh Howey, Ken Brooks, London Book Fair, Mark Coker, McGraw Hill Education, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Scott Waxman, Smashwords, Stephen Page

Innovators and circumstances: the Frankfurt Publishers Launch show

September 17, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

In some ways, I think this year’s Publishers Launch Frankfurt show kicks off the next era of digital change in global publishing. The US and other English-speaking markets have established clearly that immersive reading — fiction and narrative non-fiction — is easily ported to screens for most people. In the past 18 months, changes in […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Anthony Forbes Watson, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Benedict Evans, Bompiani, Booknet Canada, Brian Napack, Charlie Redmayne, Codex Group, Constellation, Copyright Clearance Center, Dominique Raccah, Enders Analysis, Fabbri Editore, Faber, Facebook, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Helmut Pesch, Jim Hilt, Ken Michaels, Kobo, Lubbe, Macmillan USA, Marcello Vena, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Michael Tamblyn, Microsoft, Noah Genner, Nook, Osprey, Pan Macmillan, Patricia Arancibia, Patrick Rouvillois, Penguin, Perseus, Peter Hildick-Smith, Pottermore, Providence Equity Partners, Random House, RCS Libri, Rebecca Smart, Rick Joyce, Rizzoli, Sourcebooks, Stephen Page, Theresa Horner

Publishers Launch conference at BEA will cover a wide range of digital change issues

May 29, 2012 by Jess 7 Comments

What are the important topics to discuss today concerning publishing and digital change? I think we’ve got most of them covered at Publishers Launch BEA, the one-day conference we’ll stage at the Javits Center next Monday, June 4. Our all-day event has sixteen distinct presentations and panels. There may be a topic of interest to […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "What Technology Wants", Aerbooks, Amanda Close, Baker & Taylor, Blanca Rosa Roca, Bowker, Carolyn Pittis, Chris Bauerle, Chris Dufault, Citia, cloud services, Codex, Comixology, Copyright Clearance Center, Curtis Brown, Dan Vidra, David Cully, David Steinberger, David Wilk, David Wolfson, F+W Media, Fritz Foy, Hachette Book Group USA, HarperCollins, Hugh McGuire, Ingram Content Group, Jack Perry, Javier Celaya, Jean Naggar Agency, Jennifer Weltz, Joe Mangan, Kelly Gallagher, Ken Michaels, Kevin Kelly, Kindle, Kobo, Laura Daily, Laura Hazard Owen, Linda Holliday, Macmillan, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Michael Tamblyn, Molly Barton, PaidContent, Patricia Arancibia, Penguin, Perseus, Peter Hildick-Smith, Phil Ollila, Pressbooks, Publishers Lunch, Publishing in the Cloud, Random House, Rick Joyce, Ron Martinez, SaaS, Sara Domville, Scott Stein, Semi-Linear, Simon & Schuster, Simon Lipskar, Sourcebooks, textr, Tim Knowlton, Tor.com, USA Today, Waterstone's, Writer's House

Things learned and thoughts provoked by London Book Fair 2012

April 24, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 47 Comments

This post contains a batch of observations from this year’s London Book Fair. Some of it recalled an experience from about 20 years ago. We’ll begin there. In the early 1990s, Microsoft was on a mission to get computer hardware manufacturers to install CD-Rom drives in new machines. Microsoft had a very simple motivation. Software […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Allen Lau, Amazon, Andrew Steele, Audible, Belinda Rasmussen, Bloomsbury, Bob Young, Charlie Redmayne, Copyright Clearance Center, Digital Minds, Eric Huang, Evan Schnittman, Fionnuala Duggan, Funny or Die, Hachette Book Group USA, International Course Smart, Jeff Gomez, Kate Wilson, Lulu, Michael Healy, Microsoft, Nosy Crow, Pan Macmillan, Penguin, Pottermore, Publishing Point, Random House UK, Recorded Books, Sara Lloyd, Starlight Runner Entertainment, Susan Danziger, The Great Debate, Wattpad

Should trade publishers start ditching their B2B imprints for a B2C world?

April 2, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

I spent last Friday at the On Copyright 2012 conference staged by my clients at Copyright Clearance Center. CCC is an organization dedicated to generating revenue for content creators from what is referred to as “secondary” licensing, or uses that are not core to the publisher’s revenue stream and which are often impossible to manage […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events Tagged With: "Free Ride", Big Six, CCC, Copyright Clearance, Crown, Farrar Straus, Grand Central, Hachette Book Group USA, Knopf, Little Brown, Macmillan, Maja Thomas, Michael Healy, On Copyright 2012, Penguin, Random House, Robert Levine, Scribners, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Viking

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