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Most dramatic publishing event of 2010? Introducing agency pricing!

November 30, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

Ed Nawotka, the editor of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s online publication “Publishing Perspectives”, is running a series of pieces responding to his question “what was the most dramatic event in publishing in 2010?” Here’s the answer from The Shatzkin Files. The most dramatic event in publishing in 2010? That’s easy. It was the face-down between […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Agency 5, Apple, Ed Nawotka, Frankfurt Book Fair, Google Editions, iBookstore, Kindle, Kobo, Macmillan, Nook, Peter Wiley, Publishing Perspectives, Random House

Family businesses

June 24, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

The New York Times had a story on Tuesday morning about an advantage the Ford Motor Company had over its competitors at GM and Chrysler: it is still family-owned. As the Times explained, the family ownership was able to take a longer view than their competitors. In fact, we still don’t know whether the re-tooling […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Bookmasters, Borders, Chrysler, Dave Wurster, Doubleday, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Ford, GM, Ingram, John Ingram, John Wiley & Sons, Lightning Print, New York Times, Peter Wiley, Roger Straus, Scribners, Sterling

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