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Three words of wisdom: standards, rights, & data

October 1, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

The Book Industry Study Group’s annual membership meeting on Friday concluded with a panel discussion among four industry executives who have leadership roles in the group. They are also four of the sharpest minds in publishing and they all had provocative things to say. Recollection of detail is not my strongest suit and I didn’t […]

Filed Under: Conferences, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Supply-Chain Tagged With: AAP, Adobe, Amazon, Book Industry Study Group, BookStats, Dominique Raccah, Google, Hachette Book Group USA, Kaplan, Ken Michaels, Maureen McMahon, Readerlink Distribution Services, Sourcebooks, Tara Catogge, Tom Turvey

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 […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, libraries, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing, rights, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Barnes & Noble, Barry Eisler, BIC, BISG, Hachette, Ingram, iPad, James Long, James Patterson, John Locke, Kindle, London Book Fair, Making Information Pay, Nook Color, O'Reilly, Orbit, Pan Macmillan, Rick Richter, Ruckus Media, Safari, Sara Lloyd, Tara Catogge

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