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What I Would Have Said in London, Part 1

April 25, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

I have gotten some requests, in comments and off-the-blog, to write what I was going to say to the AGM of the PA in an appearance I was supposed to make there on Wednesday, April 28. I felt terrible about having to cancel an engagement that was booked many months ago but it was tied into a […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, America Online, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Cambridge University Press, Compuserve, Craig's List, Crown Publishing, Google, In Cold Type, iPod, iTunes, Len Shatzkin, London Book Fair, Princess Daisy, Prodigy, Sony Walkman, Yahoo

Times Book Review on advances, and related thoughts

April 11, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

The NY Times Book Review published a piece on advances online today to which I was first pointed by Twitter early this morning. I couldn’t tell whether author Michael Meyer was “for ’em or agin’ ’em”. On the one hand, he seemed to suggest that publishers are inclined to overpay, and he cites Public Affairs head […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Bantam, Bill Shinker, Black Plastic Glasses, Evan Schnittman, Iacocca, Michael Meyer, NY Times Book Review, Peter Mayer, Peter Osnos, Princess Daisy, Senator Mark Hatfield

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