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Amazon has done so many smart things that some of the best ones get forgotten

March 9, 2021 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

There’s quite a bit of publishing about publishing going on in the next few weeks. British academic John B. Thompson has written a solid scholarly history of book publishing in the past quarter century or so called “Book Wars” that will publish next month, focused on the arrival of ebooks and how publishers and the […]

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2020: Zero year thoughts about the changes in book publishing

January 7, 2020 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Years that end in zeroes summon a natural tendency to look backwards and forwards. So as we enter this century’s decade of The 20s, we’ll do just that. The ideas in this piece analyze what is mostly anecdata: “facts” that are real, that I’ve vetted with people who have lived through these times with me, […]

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“The Book Business” is my new book

March 10, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

On Tuesday night, March 12, I’ll be enjoying a party thrown by my publisher Oxford University Press at The Strand Bookstore (email [email protected] if you want to come) for “The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know”, which I co-authored with Robert Paris Riger. This event follows our delivery of the complete manuscript by about […]

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Amazon share grows and big publishers make more money

February 26, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The financial reports of the major publishers have been following a pattern for some years now. Sales are about flat but profits have been steadily rising. One explanation for that fact is that the management of the major houses have been diligent about adapting their businesses to the new marketplace configurations or, as the saying […]

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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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