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Dick McCullough was a great client for me, a great boss for many, and a great guy for everybody

June 18, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

I hadn’t seen Dick McCullough, who was my most-fun-to-work-with client of all time and the best leader I ever met in the corporate world, for at least a few years when I got a phone call from him at 7pm last New Year’s Eve. He was calling to tell me that he had just had […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: ABA Convention, Charles Ellis, Crowell-Collier, Dan McNamee, Dick McCullough, George Stanley, Harry McCullough, Jess Johns, John Wiley, Leonard Shatzkin, Macmillan, Michael Bennett, Peter Clifton, Peter McCarthy, Rich Freese, Scribners, Stewart Wolpin, Teresa Hartnett, Warren Sullivan

Supply chain analysis could get even more important as store sales diminish

January 3, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

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One thing that has changed considerably in the last 20 years is the amount of information publishers have about what is going on in the supply chain: that is, they can track the books between their own warehouse and the end consumer purchase. The Big Kahuna of information, of course, is provided by BookScan, based on cash register capture of data as books are sold at outlets all over the country. BookScan not only lets its

Filed Under: Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Alison Lazarus, Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, BookScan, Borders, Charlie Nurnberg, Chronicle, David Wilk, David Young, Hachette, Harcourt, HarperCollins, Harvard University Press, Ingram, Jaci Updike, Macmillan, Michael Selleck, National Book Network, Penguin, Perseus, Random House, Rich Freese, S&S, Scholastic, Sterling Publishing, Supply Chain Tracker, University of California Pres, University of Chicago Press, Yale University Press

The sales paradigm needs to change

November 17, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

One of the functions of this blog is to predict important changes in the business just a bit before they happen. We think we were a bit ahead of the curve in seeing the ebook acceleration and in seeing the likely pressure on bookstore shelf space. Today it would seem that the next great pressure […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Above the Treeline, Alison Lazarus, Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Costco, David Wilk, Edelweiss, Halle Brothers, HarperCollins, Ingram, Macmillan, Marshall Field's, Michael Selleck, National Book Network, Random House, Rich Freese, Rich's, Simon & Schuster, Target, Wal-mart

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