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We got lucky with the speakers we booked for Publishers Launch Frankfurt

October 2, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Branch Rickey, the fabled baseball executive who gave us racial integration, farm systems, and a host of great teams over fifty years, used to say “luck is the residue of design”. I’d like to think he was right, because we have really been lucky with our Frankfurt show for Publishers Launch, which we present in […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Global, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Allen Lau, Amazon, Bluefire, Branch Rickey, Charlie Redmayne, Frankfurt Academy, GoodReads, HarperCollins, Jonathan Nowell, Ken Brooks, Marcus Leaver, McGraw-Hill, Micah Bowers, Nielsen Book, Octavio Kulesz, Osprey, Otis Chandler, Pottermore, Quarto, Rebecca Smart, Russ Grandinetti, Scribd, Sourcebooks, Trip Adler, Wattpad

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 […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Anthony Forbes Watson, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Benedict Evans, Bompiani, Booknet Canada, Brian Napack, Charlie Redmayne, Codex Group, Constellation, Copyright Clearance Center, Dominique Raccah, Enders Analysis, Fabbri Editore, Faber, Facebook, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Helmut Pesch, Jim Hilt, Ken Michaels, Kobo, Lubbe, Macmillan USA, Marcello Vena, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Michael Tamblyn, Microsoft, Noah Genner, Nook, Osprey, Pan Macmillan, Patricia Arancibia, Patrick Rouvillois, Penguin, Perseus, Peter Hildick-Smith, Pottermore, Providence Equity Partners, Random House, RCS Libri, Rebecca Smart, Rick Joyce, Rizzoli, Sourcebooks, Stephen Page, Theresa Horner

Full-service publishers are rethinking what they can offer

September 4, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 34 Comments

At lunch a few months ago, Brian Murray, the CEO of HarperCollins, expressed dissatisfaction with the term “legacy” to describe the publishers who had been successful since before the digital revolution began. For one thing, he felt that sounded too much like “the past”. “We need to come up with a different term,” was his […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Anthony Forbes Watson, Author Solutions, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Book Country, Brian Murray, Charlie Redmayne, Dominique Raccah, Faber, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Hachette, HarperCollins, Helmut Pesch, Ingram, Ken Michaels, Knopf, Leonard Shatzkin, Lubbe, Macmillan, Marcello Vena, Modern Library, Osprey, Pan Macmillan, Penguin, Perseus, Politico, Pottermore, Publishing in the 21st Century, Random House, RCS Libri, Rebecca Smart, Rick Joyce, Scholastic, Scribners, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, Stephen Page, VISTA

The ebook marketplace is a long way from settled

May 7, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 50 Comments

When we put on conferences, we sometimes book speakers because of who they are, or who their company is, but we also do our best to make sure the content of their presentation will be useful to our audience. So I had booked Matteo Berlucchi, the CEO of the British ebook startup Anobii, to speak […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, aNobii, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, Brian Murray, Charlie Redmayne, Cory Doctorow, Donnelley, DRM, HarperCollins, iBooks, IPG, J.K. Rowling, John Sargent, Kindle, LibreDigital, Macmillan, Matteo Berlucchi, Microsoft, Nook, Penguin, Pottermore, Publishers Launch London, Random House

We’re getting SaaS-y, going Hollywood, and starting to plan Digital Book World 2013

May 2, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

It is hard to believe that we’re starting to plan the fourth annual Digital Book World conference, which will be held January 16-17, 2013 at the Hilton in New York City. But we are. The first DBW was held in 2010. Planning for it began the June before when David Nussbaum and Sara Domville of […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Conferences, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", ABC, AcademicPub, Amazon, aNobii, Book Country, CBS, Copyright Clearance Center, David Houle, David Nussbaum, Digital Book World 2013, F+W Media, Fox, HarperCollins, Hyperion, Macmillan, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, NBC, O'Reilly, Pottermore, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishers Launch Hollywood, Publishing in the Cloud, Rightslink, S&S, SaaS, Safari, Sara Domville, Semi-Linear, Sourcebooks, Tor.com

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