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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

Innovators and circumstances: the Frankfurt Publishers Launch show

September 17, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

In some ways, I think this year’s Publishers Launch Frankfurt show kicks off the next era of digital change in global publishing. The US and other English-speaking markets have established clearly that immersive reading — fiction and narrative non-fiction — is easily ported to screens for most people. In the past 18 months, changes in […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Anthony Forbes Watson, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Benedict Evans, Bompiani, Booknet Canada, Brian Napack, Charlie Redmayne, Codex Group, Constellation, Copyright Clearance Center, Dominique Raccah, Enders Analysis, Fabbri Editore, Faber, Facebook, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Helmut Pesch, Jim Hilt, Ken Michaels, Kobo, Lubbe, Macmillan USA, Marcello Vena, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Michael Tamblyn, Microsoft, Noah Genner, Nook, Osprey, Pan Macmillan, Patricia Arancibia, Patrick Rouvillois, Penguin, Perseus, Peter Hildick-Smith, Pottermore, Providence Equity Partners, Random House, RCS Libri, Rebecca Smart, Rick Joyce, Rizzoli, Sourcebooks, Stephen Page, Theresa Horner

Learned (or figured out) at BEA 2012

June 11, 2012 by Jess 34 Comments

BookExpo America, trade publishing’s industry-wide gathering, just completed what must be considered another successful year at Javits Center last week. Attendance was pretty much what it had been last year and the lines for autographs on the convention floor certainly gave off the feeling of enthusiasm and excitement that publishers want to see. Convention roundups […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Abrams, Aerbook Maker, Avalon, BIC, Bill Newlin, BISG, BookExpo America, BookScan, Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, Crown, Doubleday, Fabbri, Firebrand, Fran Toolan, Joe Friedman, John Locke, Jonathan Nowell, Karina Luke, Laura Hazard Owen, Martha Moran, Martin Levin, Marvello Vena, Michael Cader, New American Library, Penguin, Perseus, RCS Libri, RCS Media, Rizzoli, Ron Martinez, Times Mirror Publishing

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