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Amazon as a threat to steal big titles from big publishers is still a ways off

October 23, 2012 by Admin 16 Comments

When Larry Kirshbaum, the longtime head of TimeWarner Publishing (purchased right after he left in 2007 by Hachette and now the company called Hachette Book Group USA) joined Amazon many people thought — I among them — that Amazon was about to become a threat to take big titles away from the major publishers and, […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Politics, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barry Eisler, Blio, Bookish, Copia, Democratic National Convention 1968, George Wallace, Google, Hachette Book Group USA, Joe Konrath, Kobo, KOLL, Larry Kirshbaum, Michael Cader, Penny Marshall, Pierre Salinger, Professor Richard Wade, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, Senator George McGovern, Sony, Southern Strategy, Spiro Agnew, Tim Ferriss, TimeWarner Publishing, Wall Street Journal, Zola eBooks

Merchandising ebooks is a problem not really solved yet

June 14, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 30 Comments

I have always been in the process of reading at least one book since I was about 8 years old. When I was a little kid, I’d find them in the house (Dad was in publishing) or at the library in my home village of Croton-on-Hudson or in the school library. Sometimes extraordinary measures delivered […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Bookish, Gene McCarthy, George McGovern, Google ebooks, James Patterson, John Locke, Kindle, Kobo, Landmark Books, Making of the President 1968, Nook, Palm Digital, Pierre Salinger, Random House, Robert Kennedy, The Shatzkin Files, Theodore White

I thought I was writing a blog, but it turns out I wrote a book!

April 15, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 27 Comments

An ebook of the first two years of The Shatzkin Files is now available and will be linked for the forseeable future from our left nav bar. This post is the introduction to the ebook, which explains how it came about. My friend, Joe Esposito, first told me about blogs in the early part of […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Bobby Kennedy, Cameron Drew, David Drew, Google Editions, Gwyn Headley, iPad, Joe Esposito, Kindle, Kobo, Leonard Shatzkin, Mayor Richard Daley, Nook, Pierre Salinger, Richard Charkin, The View from Underneath, UCLA Daily Bruin

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