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Serious disruption just over the near horizon

April 7, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 74 Comments

The monthly release of ebook sales figures by the IDPF provides a regular reminder about how fast this market is growing and it always provokes me to project the curve into the future and think about the implications. It was an IDPF data release that triggered the thought that we needed a “Tipping Points” panel […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Author Solutions, BISG, Bookmasters, Carolyn Reidy, IDPF, Lulu, Making Information Pay, Simon & Schuster, Ted Hill

Literary agents and the changing world of trade publishing

November 14, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 32 Comments

who can see the digital book possibilities in every idea before you peddle it. I had a lunch conversation this week with three successful literary agents, who will remain anonymous for this post. They wanted to talk about the panel we’re having at Digital Book World called “The Changing Author-Agent Relationship: How Will It Affect the […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: AAR, Author Solutions, Bookmasters, Hay House, lulu.com, Richard Curtis, Smashwords, Ted Hill, Writer's Digest Conference

The publisher’s evolving role

May 21, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

Michael Cairns has a really good post today that distills a lot of thoughts I have had over the last several years into a clear formulation: that the publisher needs to serve as a “digital concierge” for its author. Three years ago, Brian O’Leary, Ted Hill, and I did a study of marketing spend for […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Brian O'Leary, Facebook, Filedby, Friendfeed, Michael Cairns, Ted Hill, Twitter

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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