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What smaller publishers, agents, and authors need to know about ebook publishing

September 5, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

As the shift from a print-centric book world to a digital one accelerates, more and more digital publishers are creating themselves. The biggest publishers, with the resources of sophisticated IT departments to guide them, have been in the game for years now and paying serious attention since the Kindle was launched by Amazon late in […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", Amazon, Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, BookBaby, Bowker, Copyright Clearance Center, David Wilk, Dimension Books, F+W Media, Google, Ingram Content Group, INscribe Digital, Iris Blasi, Jack Perry, Jane Dystel, Joshua Tallent, Kindle, Knight Agency, Kobo, LibreDigital, Mark Coker, Michael Cader, MintRight, Open Road, OverDrive, Perseus Constellation, PubIt, Renee Register, Rich Fahle, Robert Gottlieb, Ron Martinez, Rosetta, Scott Waxman, Scott Waxman Agency, SEO, Sloan Harris, Smashwords, Story World

A brilliant Conference Council helps make a great Digital Book World

June 25, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

We had a very successful debut annual conference for Digital Book World last January, even though we didn’t conceive the idea until June, put together a group of helpers (which we now call our Conference Council) until July, or draft the initial program until August. This year we’re way ahead of that schedule. We’ve put […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Adam Salamone, Association of Booksellers for Children, Baker & Taylor, BISG, Borders, Brian Napack, Cengage, Charlie Redmayne, Copyright Clearance Center, Cory Smith, David Blansfield, David Cully, David Nussbaum, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, F+W Media, Filedby, Frankfurt Book Fair, GiantChair, Google, Guy Gonzalez, Hachette, HarperCollins, Harvard Common Press, ICM, Ingram Content Companies, Jane Friedman, Joe Esposito, John Ingram, John Schline, John Wiley & Sons, Kaplan, Kate Rados, Ken Brooks, Kobo, Kristen McLean, Larry Norton, Lorraine Shanley, Macmillan, Madeline McIntosh, Maja Thomas, Marcus Leaver, Mark Gompertz, Market Partners International, Matt Mullin, Maureen McMahon, Michael Cader, Michael Cairns, Michael Tamblyn, Open Road, Overdrive Systems, Oxford University Press, Penguin, Persona Non Data, Peter Balis, Peter Clifton, Publishers Marketplace, Random House, Sara Domville, Scott Lubeck, Scott Waxman, Simon & Schuster, Simon Lipskar, Sloan Harris, Smashwords, Sourcebooks, Sterling Publishing, Steve Potash, Ted Hill, THA Consulting, Thomas Minkus, Tom Turvey, Tracey Armstrong, Waxman Agency, Writer's House

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Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. Read more.

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