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Children’s books: the new value chain is a work-in-progress

September 11, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

It occurred to us about a year ago that the children’s book business was wide open for disruption from new players outside the publishing business. Already, two of the companies we mentioned in a post back then about the new entrants that might be the actual instruments of disruption have linked up with established publishers. That […]

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