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Two anomalies on my desk this morning

April 9, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

While the AAP reports that US book sales are definitely down and my friends in major houses report a decline of 10% or more across the board, that’s not what we’re hearing from Canada and it’s not what we hard from small and midsize publishers responding to our BISG “Shifting Sales Channels” survey. BookNet Canada […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Shifting Sales Channels", AAP, BISG, Booknet Canada, Michael Tamblyn

Shifting Sales Channels, and What Publishers Are Doing About Them

March 10, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

We (Ted Hill of THA Consulting and I) are working with BISG again this year on their Making Information Pay conference. Last year we did a project on “Experimentation and Innovation” where we used both an online survey and interviews to surface the issues we captured in a research paper and then formed the backbone […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Experimentation and Innovation", "Shifting Sales Channels", BISG, Book Industry Study Group, custom publishing, Making Information Pay, online sales, Ted Hill

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