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Crafting a publishing strategy to address a very specific need

February 14, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

Lena Tabori is, like me, a book publishing lifer who wants to work on climate change. She was an executive at Abrams when I met her and went on to be a founder of illustrated book publisher Stewart Tabori & Chang and then Welcome Books, the book publishing arm of her Welcome Enterprises. (Lena recently […]

Filed Under: Marketing, New Models, Politics, Publishing Tagged With: 350.org, Abrams, Al Gore, Benjamin Harlow, Bill McKibben, Citizens Climate Lobby, climatechangeresources.com, ClimateNexus, Environmental Defense Fund, Lena Tabori, Martin Levin, Mary Tiegreen, Publishers Lunch, Rizzoli, Sierra Club, Stewart Tabori & Chang, Welcome Books, Welcome Enterprises

Conferences are thermometers recording the level of fear about publishing changes

December 7, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

In the latest sign that the need for information about digital change in publishing has undergone a sea change in the past few years, it was announced today that Nielsen will not stage an independent conference in London this April, but will instead join forces with the London Book Fair to do an event there […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, David Nussbaum, Denis Bennett, Digital Book World, Diversion Books, EverAfter Romance, F+W Media, Frankfurt Book Fair, Ingenta, Ingram, KIPI, Knowledge Industry Publications, London Book Fair, Michael Cader, Microsoft, NetGalley, Nielsen, O'Reilly Media, Palm, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Weekly, Radius Book Group, Sara Domville, Scott Waxman, Sony, Tim O'Reilly, Tools of Change, VISTA Computer Services

Barnes and Noble faces a challenge that has not been clearly spelled out

August 23, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

The sudden dismissal of Ron Boire, the CEO of Barnes & Noble, follows the latest financial reporting from Barnes & Noble and has inspired yet another round of analysis about their future. When the financial results were released last month, there was a certain amount of celebrating over the fact that store closings are down […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Borders, Brentano's, Cambridge University Press, Dalton, Doubleday Merchandising Plan, Gimbels, Heather Reisman, Indigo, Kroch's & Brentano's, Leonard Shatzkin, Marshall Field, Penguin Random House, Pocket Shops, Publishers Lunch, Steve Clark, Walden, Wanamakers

Now Kings of ebook subscription, what will impede the ebook share growth for Amazon?

February 17, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

With the news this morning that Scribd has thrown in the towel on unlimited ebook subscriptions, Amazon is the last player standing with an “all-you-can-eat” ebook subscription offer for a general audience. The juxtaposition of the publishers’ insistence on being paid full price for ebooks being lent once and the late Oyster’s and the now thrice-hobbled […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Department of Justice, Digital Book World, Digital Reader, Google, iBooks, Jonathan Kanter, Judge Cote, Kensington, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, Nate Hoffelder, Nook, Oyster, Pete McCarthy, Publishers Lunch, Scribd, Steve Zacharius

Are Amazon exclusives the next big challenge for everybody else in publishing?

September 22, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

Somebody smarter (or more patient about wading through data) than I am could probably figure out how far along this bifurcation is already, but Amazon is doing its very best to build a body of content that is desirable and available from nobody else but them. This is something you can do when you’re in […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Atria, Authors United, David Streitfeld, Entangled, George McBride Media, Hachette, Hugh Howey, Judith Curr, Keywords Press, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle Unlimited, Michael Cader, New York Times, Peter K. Borland, Publishers Lunch, Simon & Schuster

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