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Nothing happens over 4th of July weekend, except this year

July 4, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 26 Comments

Monday, July 4, was supposed to be a quiet day in the publishing business. It turns out it wasn’t. Three developments reported as special holiday bulletins by Publishers Lunch have strategic implications worth pondering that will have trade publishing people all over the world conferring with their friends and colleagues as soon as they shake […]

Filed Under: Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Angus & Robertson, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Christopher Little Agency, Don Engel, Eleanor Shatzkin, F+W Media, Interweave, J.K. Rowling, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft, Mobi, MS Reader, Neil Blair, O'Reilly, Palm, Pearson, Penguin, Publishers Lunch, REDGroup, The Book Depository, Wiley

Three new ebook platforms nearing their debut

August 4, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

A year ago — even six months ago — it seemed like Amazon and its Kindle device had an insurmountable advantage in the ebook device and platform competition. Despite our admonition that Amazon’s dominance of ebooks was much more fragile than their dominance in online print bookselling, even we were impressed and sometimes daunted by […]

Filed Under: Community, eBooks, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Android, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Content Reserve, Copia, DMC, Facebook, Google Editions, Ingram, iPad, Kindle, Microsoft, Nook, Quark, Sony, Toshiba, Windows Phone 7, XPS

Tech companies need to look like they understand publishing, which they don’t always do

March 17, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I showed up Tuesday morning at the gorgeous Cipriani restaurant and ballroom on 42nd Street for The Future of Publishing Summit, not knowing what to expect. I had been invited to attend this in an email last month which promised an interesting program (lots of big tech companies plus a book publishing “track” led by the […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing Tagged With: Adobe, Carolyn Pittis, Cipriani, Colin Crawford, Creative Strategies, David Young, Digital Book World, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, Google, HarperCollins, HP, IDG Communications, Lorraine Shanley, Maja Thomas, MarkLogic, Marvell, Microsoft, Notion Ink, OUP, Peter Balis, Publishing Business Conference and Expo, Publishing Technologies, Qualcomm, Scrollmotion, Skiff, Sony, SXSW, Tim Bajarin, Tom Turvey, Tools of Change, VISTA Computer Services, Vook, Zinio

Are “enhanced ebooks” the CD-Rom era all over again?

January 12, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

Is this where I came in? In the early 1990s, the computer manufacturers and Microsoft were doing everything they could to persuade businesses and consumers that they really, really, really needed CD-Rom drives. That Microsoft would benefit from them was very clear; the software they were selling was taking more and more diskettes to deliver […]

Filed Under: eBooks, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Amazon, Bob Stein, dot lit, Enhanced ebooks, Kindle, Microsoft, Mobipocket, Palm Digital, PDA, PDF, Simon & Schuster, StarTrek, Voyager Expanded Book, Wiley

Introducing Digital Book World

August 5, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

Back in 1993 or so, my friend Lorraine Shanley of Market Partners International and I went to a free half-day conference sponsored by Microsoft. At the time, Microsoft was really pushing the computer manufacturers to install CD-Rom drivers into new computers. They had a definite selfish interest, which was to reduce the cost of goods […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Dan McNamee, DBW, Digital Book World, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners International, Microsoft, PW, VISTA

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