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Digital marketing and coping with Amazon are the two big challenges for publishers as we begin 2017

January 3, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I am getting ready to attend my first Digital Book World as a “civilian” (having programmed and moderated the first seven), Thinking about DBW entails recognizing how different the book publishing world today is from what I expected three or six years ago. Be that as it may, the big challenges for the industry — […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, Publishing History, SEO, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: "Electronic Publishing and Rights", Amazon, Apple, Author Earnings, B&N, Brian Defiore, Codex, Dan Lubart, Data Guy, Ginger Clark, Hugh Howey, iBooks, Ingram, iobyte, John Sargent, Jon Fine, Kindle, Knopf, Kobo, Macmillan, Michael Cader, NetGalley, Nielsen Bookscan, Nook, Peter Hildick-Smith, Peter McCarthy, Porter Anderson, Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster, Susan Ruszala, Ted Hill, Wall Street Journal

Ideas about the future of bookselling

February 7, 2013 by Jess 30 Comments

There is a vision of online bookselling, which I share, which is that it will become increasingly atomized. Books (and, ultimately, other content too) will be merchandised in unique ways across countless web sites curating and presenting content choices for their own communities and audiences. One early prototype of how this might work is the […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, B&N, Baker & Taylor, Bookateria, Bookish, Brian Murray, Codex, HarperCollins, Kobo, O'Reilly Media, Peter Hildick-Smith, Politico, Publishers Lunch, Random House, Tools of Change, Under Cover Books

Seven-and-a-half days of conference programming coming up during 4 days in January

December 13, 2012 by Jess 2 Comments

Blog posts have been scarcer for the past couple of months because I’ve been so engaged with a major responsibility: putting together what amounts to 7-1/2 days of conference programming that will be presented on four days next month in New York City. As most readers of this blog probably know, we’re responsible for the […]

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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 […]

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DBW lets us look at ebook bestsellers by price, and things are revealed

August 20, 2012 by Jess 17 Comments

Digital Book World unveiled its new ebook bestseller lists this morning. They put this effort together — I program the annual January conference for them; this work has almost nothing to do with me (although I’m over-generously credited with having provided “guidance”) — over the past couple of months working with Dan Lubart. Lubart owns […]

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