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The publishing business as we have known it is not going away anytime soon

June 11, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 38 Comments

Regular readers, please pardon me for the unusual length of this post, but it covers a lot of ground that I think is necessary to make the point. A friend who has actually been working fulltime in the book business since I was still in college and who remains active was speculating at BEA about […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Amazon, Author Earnings, Barnes & Noble, BookScan, Borders, Codex Group, DBW, Gareth Cuddy, Google, Harry Bingham, iBooks, Ingram, James Patterson, Jane Friedman, John Wiley, Nielsen Market Research, Nook, Publishing Technology, PubTrack Digital, Smashwords, Vearsa

Digging up a 15-year old speech, and a lesson in preservation

October 3, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

One thing I’ve heard often and dismissed is that we need print to preserve intellectual property. I figure that digital files are less destructible than paper and that, with any care at all, it should be possible to create more reliable preservation of bits than of atoms. I still think that. However… A month ago […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Leonard Shatzkin, Publishing Technology, VISTA, Wikipedia

Ever heard of Tata Consulting? Well, I hadn’t either…

June 6, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

The publishing industry faces some mammoth challenges that it will be very hard for any one publisher, even the biggest, to address. Costs have to be cut dramatically over the next few years. New technology is going to enable upstarts to compete in the marketplace with far less overhead and infrastructure than legacy publishers have […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: John Wicker, Klopotek, Mark Bide, Publishing Technology, Rightscom, Tata, TCS, VISTA Computer Services

Making Information Pay 2010: Points of No Return

May 10, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

We have a program packed with information which we always strive for here at Making Information Pay. This conference, as usual, is about what’s changing in our publishing world right now and how we should address it. Before I walk us through this morning’s program, I want to give you two snapshots of the future, first as I see it and then as it was reflected in the answers you and others gave to the survey that tied into this year’s event.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Author Solutions, Barnes & Noble, Bertelsmann, Big Six, BISG, Bookmasters, Books-a-Million, Borders, Bowker, brick-and-mortar, disintermediation, eBooks, Facebook, Gilbane Group, Hachette, Harvard Common Press, Kaplan, Lulu, Macmillan, Making Information Pay, Open Road, Print-On-Demand, Publishing Technology, Random House, SBS Worldwide, Scribd, Smashwords, Sterling Commerce, Twitter, Wolters Kluwer

Points of No Return: Making Information Pay for 2010

April 26, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

This is the third year in a row that we’ve put together the Making Information Pay conference for the Book Industry Study Group, in conjunction with Ted Hill of THA Consulting. We’ve repeated the formula we’ve applied for the past two years, doing an industry survey on the conference theme to provide some additional insight. This year’s conference […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Adam Salamone, BISG, Bowker, Bruce Shaw, David Guenette, George Lossius, Gilbane Group, Hachette, Harvard Common Press, Jabin White, John Konczal, Kaplan, Kelly Gallagher, Macmillan, Making Information Pay, Matt Baldacci, Maureen McMahon, Phil Madans, Publishing Technology, SBS Worldwide, Sterling Commerce, Steve Walker, Ted Hill, THA Consulting, Twitter, Wolters Kluwer

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