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Advice for an author looking for a literary agent

April 28, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 47 Comments

Until last week, I hadn’t stopped to think about how often I’m advising authors about how to deal with the publishing business. I would imagine this is something that most of us in the industry find ourselves doing very frequently. There are, after all, a lot of aspiring authors in the world and when one’s […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights Tagged With: "50 Shades of Gray", agentquery.com, Geraldine DeRuiter, Jane Friedman, Logical Marketing, Moz Analytics, Moz Research Tools, Pete McCarthy, Publishers Marketplace, Rand Fishkin, The Everywhereist

Publishing in the Cloud is the next big important subject

July 9, 2012 by Jess 7 Comments

Much of the change we are living through in publishing is plain as day to see. The shift from print to digital, like the shift from stores to online purchasing, is evident to all of us, inside the industry and out. But there’s another aspect of the change that is not nearly as visible and […]

Filed Under: Conferences, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Technology, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alfredo Santana, Andrea Fleck-Nesbit, BISG, Bonnie Russell, Bowker, Bruce Marcus, Chris Hart, Constellation, Copyright Clearance Center, David C Cook, Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, Firebrand Technologies, Hachette, HarperCollins, IBM, John Wiley, Kaplan Publishing, Ken Michaels, Klopotek, Liberty Fund, McGraw-Hill, Metacomet, Michael Cader, Michael Covington, Patricia Gallagher, Perseus, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Marketplace, Publishing in the Cloud, Ralph Munsen, Random House, Rick Joyce, Rick Schwartz, Rightslink, Tata Consulting Services, TCS, Ted Hill, THA Consulting, The Washington Post, Virtusales, Wayne State University Press, Workman, Yuvi Kochar

A brilliant Conference Council helps make a great Digital Book World

June 25, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

We had a very successful debut annual conference for Digital Book World last January, even though we didn’t conceive the idea until June, put together a group of helpers (which we now call our Conference Council) until July, or draft the initial program until August. This year we’re way ahead of that schedule. We’ve put […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Adam Salamone, Association of Booksellers for Children, Baker & Taylor, BISG, Borders, Brian Napack, Cengage, Charlie Redmayne, Copyright Clearance Center, Cory Smith, David Blansfield, David Cully, David Nussbaum, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, F+W Media, Filedby, Frankfurt Book Fair, GiantChair, Google, Guy Gonzalez, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harvard Common Press, ICM, Ingram Content Companies, Jane Friedman, Joe Esposito, John Ingram, John Schline, John Wiley & Sons, Kaplan, Kate Rados, Ken Brooks, Kobo, Kristen McLean, Larry Norton, Lorraine Shanley, Macmillan, Madeline McIntosh, Maja Thomas, Marcus Leaver, Mark Gompertz, Market Partners International, Matt Mullin, Maureen McMahon, Michael Cader, Michael Cairns, Michael Tamblyn, Open Road, Overdrive Systems, Oxford University Press, Penguin, Persona Non Data, Peter Balis, Peter Clifton, Publishers Marketplace, Random House, Sara Domville, Scott Lubeck, Scott Waxman, Simon & Schuster, Simon Lipskar, Sloan Harris, Smashwords, Sourcebooks, Sterling Publishing, Steve Potash, Ted Hill, THA Consulting, Thomas Minkus, Tom Turvey, Tracey Armstrong, Waxman Agency, Writer's House

We’ve had “gradually”; get ready for “suddenly”

May 10, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 46 Comments

I don’t think too many future predictors are .300 hitters, and one ground ball I tapped out to shortstop was my hunch that the iPad wouldn’t have an immediate significant impact on ebook sales (although I thought it would be important over time.) According to data and analysis uniquely developed and provided by Michael Cader, published […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: BISG, Blio, Copia, Harlequin, iPad, Kindle, Kobo Reader, Making Information Pay, Michael Cader, Nook, Publishers Marketplace, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Sony Reader

What I Would Have Said in London, Part 3

April 28, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

This is the third of four posts covering the subject matter of an address I had hoped to make to the Publishers Association in London on April 28 but which was cancelled by the Iceland volcano. In the first post, we explored the nature of change in publishing and I tried to underscore how much disruption […]

Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Vertical Tagged With: Dominique Raccah, Google, Joe Craven, Lark Crafts, Michael Cader, Oxford University Press, Pixiq, Poetry Speaks, Publishers Association, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Marketplace, Sourcebooks, Sterling Publishing, Verso Advertising

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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