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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 […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Children's Publishing Goes Digital", "eBooks Around the World", Elevation Partners, Lorraine Shanley, My Weekly Reader, Oceanhouse, Random House, Readers Digest, Rick Richter, Roger McNamee, Ruckus Media, Scholastic, Sesame Street, Smashing Ideas, Touchy Books, Trilogy Studios

Conceiving issues that will gestate in the next nine months; planning for 2012 Digital Book World

April 19, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 48 Comments

The fact that Publishers Launch Conferences will stage half-a-dozen or more events before our next big multi-day Digital Book World blowout next January doesn’t change the DBW calendar. Now is the time of year when we have to start thinking about what the big issues will be at the turn of the year so we […]

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