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Practical and ethical challenges posed by digital content delivery

April 4, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 25 Comments

The New York Times published two apparently unrelated articles over the weekend which address questions raised by the rise of digital content creation and distribution. One was an op-ed piece in the Saturday paper by author Mark Aronson about the challenge of collecting the permissions necessary to include copyrighted material in enhanced ebooks. On Sunday, the […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild, Copyright Clearance Center, Ereads, Google, Jamie Raab, Joe Esposito, New York Times, Randy Cohen, Richard Aronson, Richard Curtis, Stephen King, The Ethicist

Literary agents and the changing world of trade publishing

November 14, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 32 Comments

who can see the digital book possibilities in every idea before you peddle it. I had a lunch conversation this week with three successful literary agents, who will remain anonymous for this post. They wanted to talk about the panel we’re having at Digital Book World called “The Changing Author-Agent Relationship: How Will It Affect the […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: AAR, Author Solutions, Bookmasters, Hay House, lulu.com, Richard Curtis, Smashwords, Ted Hill, Writer's Digest Conference

An ebook experiment stirs up conversation

July 17, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

The Wall Street Journal was the first to announce, on Monday, (behind a pay wall, but Google “Publisher Delays E-book Amid Debate On Pricing” and you’ll get it) that Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah was holding back the ebook publication of a new hardcover YA novel, Bran Hambric, scheduled for release this September. Raccah’s explanation to the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Add new tag, Amazon, Brad Stone, Bran Hambric, Dan Brown, Dominique Raccah, Doubleday, Ereads, Kaleb Nation, Kassia Krozser, Kindle, Michael Cader, Motoko Rich, New York Times, Peter Brantley, Richard Curtis, Robert Gottlieb, Sourcebooks, Stephen King, Ted Kennedy, Wall Street Journal

The evolving role of agents

June 29, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 14 Comments

Because of a couple of panels I spoke on last spring and because of the development of FiledBy, I have had more and more conversations lately with agents. They are part of the General Trade Publishing ecosystem. So their lives are getting more difficult and more complicated, like everybody else’s in Book Valley. The agents’ […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Audible, Bob Miller, Brilliance, Carolyn Pittis, Ereads, Harper Studio, John Sargent, Richard Curtis, Roger Cooper, Tantor Media, Vanguard

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