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Words-to-be-read are losing ground to words-to-be-heard, a new stage of digital content evolution

June 14, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

“Words-to-be-read” must now become a content category, along with still images, video, and audio. Audio includes “words-to-be-heard”. We are in what must be the early stages of a reordering of primacy among these varieties of “content for delivery and consumption”, which is distinguished from “content for interaction”, or the world of “gamified content” along with […]

Filed Under: Authors, Licensing and Rights, New Models, rights Tagged With: "The 5 Second Rule", Amazon, Audible, Don Katz, John Scalzi, Mel Robbins, New York Times, The New Yorker, words-to-be-heard, words-to-be-read

What the Riggio interview in the New Yorker tells us

October 31, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

The New Yorker did a very provocative story dated October 21  about Barnes & Noble that included a great deal of information gained from a phone interview by writer David Sax with B&N significant shareholder and chairman Leonard Riggio. B&N is a subject of obsessive interest to book publishers and their friends, family, and ecosystem. […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Publishing History, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Girl on the Train", Amazon, B&N, Barnes & Noble, BN .com, David Sax, Kindle, Leonard Riggio, Nook, The New Yorker

Headliners galore will address Digital Book World 2015

December 18, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

Half of Digital Book World is delivered to the entire audience from the Main Stage. The speakers for 2015 comprise the most illustrious group we have ever had. The headine is definitely that we have managed to corral both Amazon and Apple speakers for our main stage — a feat we don’t believe any other […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It", "Put Me in the Story", "The Innovators", Alloy, Amazon, Amplify, Apple, Atria, Bit.ly, Brian Murray, Content Marketing Institute, David Nussbaum, Google, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Hilary Mason, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I See Me, iBookstore, James Robinson, Joe Pulizzi, Jonathan Nowell, Judith Curr, Keith Moerer, Ken Auletta, Kickstarter, Launch Kids, Linda Zecher, Lorraine Shanley, Market Partners International, Matthew Greenfield, Michael Cader, Nielsen Book, Paper Lantern Lit, Rethink Education, Rick Chapman, Russ Grandinetti, S&S, Seth Godin, Sourcebooks, Speakaboos, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Thomas Nelson, Walter Isaacson, Wattpad

The Digital Book World program this year covers the waterfront of the digital transition for book publishing

December 11, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

(This is a longer-than-usual Shatzkin Files post reviewing the topics and speakers for the 26 breakout sessions at DBW 2015. It serves as a checklist of “things to think about right now” for book publishers living through the experience of digital change. The entire program is here. We decided not to link to each and every […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain, Technology, Vertical Tagged With: "Books in the Digital Age", "Breaking the Page", "Merchants of Culture", :Professor John B. Thompson, Adrian Norman, Alex white, Alyson Forbes, Amanda Edmonds, Amazon, Andrea Fleck-Nisbet, Andrew Dorward, Andrew Weinstein, Angela Tribelli, Annie Lowrey, Apex Content Solutions, Ashleigh Gardner, Ashley Gordon, Association of American Publishers, Atria, Barry Eisler, Barry Lynn, Beni Rachmanov, Bianca D'Arc, Bill Kasdorf, Bill McCoy, BISG, Bitlit, Blloon, Bluefire, Bookbub, BookGenie451, Bookmate, Booksource, Booktracks, Brian Murray, Caitlin Friedman, Carlos Carrenho, Carolyn Pittis, Chris Kennealley, Chris Kubica, Chris Palma, Christine Hung, Citia, CJ Alvarado, Clancy Marshall, Content Marketing Institute, Copyright Clearance Center, Curriculet, Dana Beth Weinberg, Daniel Houghton, Dasilva & Phillips, Dave Cramer, David Burleigh, David Vinjamuri, Defined Learning, Dev Chatillon, Diversion, Douglas Stambaugh, Entangled, Enthrill, ePub Direct, Eric Shanfelt, Erica Lazzaro, Evan Schnittman, F+W Media, Fast Company, Fast Forward Labs, Forbes, Foreign Affairs, Frankfurt Book Fair, Full Fathom Five, Gareth Cuddy, George McBride, George McBride Media Group, Google, Greg Ferguson, Hachette, Hannah Harlow, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Heather Myers, Heidi Vincent, Hilary Mason, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, IDPF, Ingram, Intelligent Television, iShook, James Frey, Jane Friedman, Jared Friedman, Jason Pinter, Jason Singer, Jay Lauf, Jeff Dodes, Jeremy Greenfield, Jess Johns, Joe Esposito, Joe Pulizzi, John B. Thompson, John Clinton, Johnjoe Farragher, Jonathan Stolper, Josh Schanker, Judith Curr, Judith Regan, Keith Fretz, Ken Auletta, Ken Brooks, Kensington, Kerry Dyer, Kevin Franco, Keywords Press, Kindle Unlimited, Knewton, Kobo, Kristin Fassler, Laura Hazard Owen, Len Vlahos, LibreDigital, Liz Pelletier, Logical Marketing, Lonely Planet, Lorraine Shanley, Lucas Wittman, Lynda Hammes, Macmillan, Marcello Vena, Marcus Woodburn, Market Partners, Mary Cummings, Matt Shatz, Matthew Cavnar, McGraw-Hill, Micah Bowers, Michael Tamblyn, Mike Perlis, Nathan Maharaj, National Geographic Books, Neal Goff, Neal Shenoy, Neil Jaffe, New America Foundation, New York Magazine, Next Big Book, Niantic Labs, Nielsen Bookscan, O'Reilly, Open Road Media, OverDrive, Oyster, Paul Belfanti, Paul Cameron, Paul Labay, Pearson, Penguin Random House, Perseus, Peter Borland, Peter Hudson, Peter Kaufman, Peter McCarthy, Peter Meyers, Phaidon, Phil Madans, Polis Books, PW, Quartz, Rachel Chou, Regan Arts, Rick Chapman, Rick Joyce, Robin Warner, Sanders Kleinfeld, Sara Domville, Sara Ittelson, Scholastic, Scott Mebus, Scribd, Seth Godin, Simon & Schuster, Simon Allen, Simon Dunlop, Snippet, Spark No. 9, Speakaboos, Steve Zacharius, Sue Fleming, Ted Hill, Thad McIlroy, The New Yorker, The Street, Thomas Leliveld, Thomas Minkus, Tom Allen, Tom Thompson, U.S. News & World Report, Verso Advertising, Vook, Walter Isaacson, Wattpad, Welman Digital, Wiley, Workman, YouTube

Auletta’s New Yorker piece is good orientation for thinking about the DoJ case

June 25, 2012 by Jess 38 Comments

Writing about the lawsuit the DoJ has instituted against Apple and five leading publishers is very hard. It’s a big issue and doing it justice requires navigating two very large and complex bodies of knowledge: anti-trust law and the trade book publishing business. Whenever I write about it, I feel handicapped because I don’t know […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Politics, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Paper Trail", Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Color Nook, David Young, DOJ, Facebook, Google, Hachette USA, iBookstore, Ken Auletta, Kindle, Kobo, Markus Dohle, Microsoft, Nook, Random House, Simon Lipskar, The New Yorker, United States Department of Justice

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