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Finding the right digital services is today’s challenge for publishers

August 8, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

The era of digital change in publishing has given rise to a slew of service propositions to help publishers with their new infrastructure needs. This is both essential and also nothing new. It has always been necessary for publishers to execute on core needs by getting help at scale. There was a time when publishers […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain, Technology, Unbundling Tagged With: Apex, Ashley Mabbitt, Bill Kasdorf, Digital Book World, John Wiley & Sons, Ted Hill, THA Consulting

Publishing in the Cloud is the next big important subject

July 9, 2012 by Jess 7 Comments

Much of the change we are living through in publishing is plain as day to see. The shift from print to digital, like the shift from stores to online purchasing, is evident to all of us, inside the industry and out. But there’s another aspect of the change that is not nearly as visible and […]

Filed Under: Conferences, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Technology, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alfredo Santana, Andrea Fleck-Nesbit, BISG, Bonnie Russell, Bowker, Bruce Marcus, Chris Hart, Constellation, Copyright Clearance Center, David C Cook, Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, Firebrand Technologies, Hachette, HarperCollins, IBM, John Wiley, Kaplan Publishing, Ken Michaels, Klopotek, Liberty Fund, McGraw-Hill, Metacomet, Michael Cader, Michael Covington, Patricia Gallagher, Perseus, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Marketplace, Publishing in the Cloud, Ralph Munsen, Random House, Rick Joyce, Rick Schwartz, Rightslink, Tata Consulting Services, TCS, Ted Hill, THA Consulting, The Washington Post, Virtusales, Wayne State University Press, Workman, Yuvi Kochar

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

Points of No Return: Making Information Pay for 2010

April 26, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 5 Comments

This is the third year in a row that we’ve put together the Making Information Pay conference for the Book Industry Study Group, in conjunction with Ted Hill of THA Consulting. We’ve repeated the formula we’ve applied for the past two years, doing an industry survey on the conference theme to provide some additional insight. This year’s conference […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Adam Salamone, BISG, Bowker, Bruce Shaw, David Guenette, George Lossius, Gilbane Group, Hachette, Harvard Common Press, Jabin White, John Konczal, Kaplan, Kelly Gallagher, Macmillan, Making Information Pay, Matt Baldacci, Maureen McMahon, Phil Madans, Publishing Technology, SBS Worldwide, Sterling Commerce, Steve Walker, Ted Hill, THA Consulting, Twitter, Wolters Kluwer

A New Project: “StartwithXML, Why and How”

September 12, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

We have turned our attention to a problem we believe will occupy just about all publishers in the years to come, the opportunities and challenges presented by an XML workflow that starts with the author, or even before there is an author.

Why should you care? Because the world we live in is changing, and XML is the key to mastering the change

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: BISAC code, BISG, codeMantra, Daily Lit, eBooks, Jouve, Klopotek, LJNDawson, Magellan Media, McGraw-Hill, O'Reilly Media, Print-On-Demand, Publishing Dimensions, Rosetta Solutions, THA Consulting, XML

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