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Getting Mark Coker right this time and agreeing with him up to a point

March 12, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 15 Comments

On Tuesday, for the first time in the five years I have been writing this blog, I did a post I would like to take back. (But in the interest of the public record, and because there were several comments of value, I’m leaving it up.) This is the post that I should have written […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: CCC, Diversion, Faber, Great Debate, Huffington Post, Hugh Howey, Ken Brooks, London Book Fair, Mark Coker, McGraw Hill Education, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Scott Waxman, Smashwords, Stephen Page

Innovators and circumstances: the Frankfurt Publishers Launch show

September 17, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

In some ways, I think this year’s Publishers Launch Frankfurt show kicks off the next era of digital change in global publishing. The US and other English-speaking markets have established clearly that immersive reading — fiction and narrative non-fiction — is easily ported to screens for most people. In the past 18 months, changes in […]

Filed Under: Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Anthony Forbes Watson, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Benedict Evans, Bompiani, Booknet Canada, Brian Napack, Charlie Redmayne, Codex Group, Constellation, Copyright Clearance Center, Dominique Raccah, Enders Analysis, Fabbri Editore, Faber, Facebook, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Helmut Pesch, Jim Hilt, Ken Michaels, Kobo, Lubbe, Macmillan USA, Marcello Vena, Michael Cader, Michael Healy, Michael Tamblyn, Microsoft, Noah Genner, Nook, Osprey, Pan Macmillan, Patricia Arancibia, Patrick Rouvillois, Penguin, Perseus, Peter Hildick-Smith, Pottermore, Providence Equity Partners, Random House, RCS Libri, Rebecca Smart, Rick Joyce, Rizzoli, Sourcebooks, Stephen Page, Theresa Horner

Full-service publishers are rethinking what they can offer

September 4, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 34 Comments

At lunch a few months ago, Brian Murray, the CEO of HarperCollins, expressed dissatisfaction with the term “legacy” to describe the publishers who had been successful since before the digital revolution began. For one thing, he felt that sounded too much like “the past”. “We need to come up with a different term,” was his […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Anthony Forbes Watson, Author Solutions, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Book Country, Brian Murray, Charlie Redmayne, Dominique Raccah, Faber, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Hachette, HarperCollins, Helmut Pesch, Ingram, Ken Michaels, Knopf, Leonard Shatzkin, Lubbe, Macmillan, Marcello Vena, Modern Library, Osprey, Pan Macmillan, Penguin, Perseus, Politico, Pottermore, Publishing in the 21st Century, Random House, RCS Libri, Rebecca Smart, Rick Joyce, Scholastic, Scribners, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, Stephen Page, VISTA

“A Global Perspective on Digital Change” will be our first show in London

May 15, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The first Publishers Launch Conferences show outside the United States, “A Global Perspective on Digital Change”, will be at the Congress Centre in central London on June 21, with the Publishers Association serving as our partners in putting on the event. We also owe special thanks to the PA’s group of Digital Directors, who were […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Angry Robot, Anthony Forbes Watson, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, Blio, Bloomsbury, Charlie Redmayne, Constellation, Copia, Copyright Clearance Center, Curtis Brown, David Miller, David Roth-ey, Dominic Myers, EDItEur, Faber, George Walkley, Google, Google ebooks, Graham Bell, Hachette, HarperCollins, Helen Kogan, Ingram, iPad, Jacks Thomas, James Long, Jean Harrington, Jo Howard, John Makinson, Jon Windus, Jonny Geller, Juan Lopez-Valacarel, Karina Luke, Kindle, Kobo, Kogan Page, Ltd, Marc Gascoigne, Mark Bide, Maverick House, Michael Cader, Midas Public Relations, Mobcast, Mosaic Search & Selection Ltd, Nielsen, Osprey, OverDrive, Pan Macmillan, Patricia Aranacibia, Pearson, Penguin, Perseus, Peter Cox, Publishers Association UK, Publishers Licensing Society, Publishing Ireland, Random House, Redhammer, Richard Charkin, Rick Joyce, Rogers Coleridge and White, Sara Faulder, Sara Lloyd, Sony, Stephen Page, Tools of Change, Waterstone's

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