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The emerging opportunity for today’s publishers

June 17, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

Last week I went to a “brown bag lunch” session organized by Daily Lit featuring Gail Glickman Horwood, head of digital strategy for Martha Stewart Living and a veteran of nearly 15 years in the web business for magazines and for AOL. Gail was an engaging and knowledgeable presenter and she stressed two points, one […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Daily Lit, Gail Glickman Horwood, Issuu, Martha Stewart Living, Penguin

Stay Ahead of the Shift: What Publishers Can Do to Flourish in a Community-Centric Web World

May 29, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

Speech given at BEA 2009. Focusing on the changes that will take place in publishing in the next 20 years. With a look back to the last 20 years, we are able to look forward and predict not only how publishing will be in the future, but also how information will be shared.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, B2B, B2C, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, BEA, BISAC code, blog, Bloomsbury, Borders, CD, cloud, craigslist, Crown, DRM, eBooks, epub, Facebook, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, horizontal, iPhone, iPod, Lulu, McGraw-Hill, metrics, Nelson, Ning, O-Reilly, Penguin, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Taylor & Francis, television, The Safari Bookshelf, Tools of Change, Twitter, verticle, Wikipedia, Wiley

The Digital State of Play in the US

April 16, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

…in the 21st century, the net is flipping this on us. The net tends to self-organize us by subject niche, so the eyeballs and human bandwidth are linked to the niches, which are vertical, not horizontal. And because web interaction is about file exchanges, format specificity is meaningless. The file can hold text, art or photographs or other graphics, animation, moving images, sound, games, or code that helps us combine, sort, or tag things

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Audible, B2B, B2C, Barnes & Noble, Bookreads, BookSurge, Borders, CBS, Content Reserve, DAD, eBooks, Facebook, Hachette, Harlequin, horizontal, Ingram, International Digital Publishing Forum, iTunes, Kindle, libraries, LibraryThing, LibreDigital, Lightning, Market Publishers, Microsoft, Mobi, MySpace, Open Social, OpenSocial, Paml, Penguin, Print-On-Demand, Quamut, Random House, SharedBook, Shelfari, Simon & Schuster, Sony, SparkNotes, verticle, XML

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