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My advice is not always easy to follow, but sometimes it proves right anyway

March 29, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago by a journalist who was working on a story about publishers and digital change. He was building something around my “Stay Ahead of the Shift” speech from last year’s Book Expo. “I was impressed by that speech,” he said. “You were very prescriptive about what publishers should do. So […]

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