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Newspaper publishers face very different and much more immediate threats than book publishers

November 15, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

The business news has been very painful for newspapers lately. A piece we saw a couple of days ago says both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are going to cut back sharply on their arts coverage. The advertising simply isn’t there to support it. And recently before that, we read a […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Subscriptions, Vertical Tagged With: Business Week, Los Angeles Times, Michael Cairns, National Review, New York Times, Newsday, Newsweek, NY Daily News, ProPublica, Sport, The Nation, The National, The New Republic, The Sporting News, Time, US News & World Report

Upstream and downstream developments crowd publishers’ space

January 28, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

I had breakfast last summer with one of the titans of 20th century publishing who is now in his senior years running his own smaller operation. He’s a notorious non-techie. When we talked, he was trying to come to grips with what the problem for publishers was with this digital transition. From his perspective, publishing […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: "Open Secrets", "Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story", Amazon, BISG, Bowker, Brian Napack, David Nussbaum, iModerate, Jane Friedman, Jim Schachter, Macmillan, New York Times, Open Road, ProPublica, Richard Tofel, Sebastian Rotella, wikileaks

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