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What does a consultant do at the London Book Fair?

April 16, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 3 Comments

I spent a chunk of yesterday working on this post while, with one eye, I was watching the news about the volcanic eruption in Iceland that shut UK air traffic. As I post this on Friday morning with a flight scheduled to leave tomorrow night near midnight, I’d guess the chances of actually getting there […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, Enhanced ebook university, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: BISG, Bob Kasher, Book Business Conference and Expo, Book Industry Communication, Bookmasters, Copia, eDC, Kirk Biglione, Ljubljana, London Book Fair, London Online, Oxford Media Works, Peter Meyers, SBS Worldwide, Steve Walker, The Pineapple, Tools of Change

Tech companies need to look like they understand publishing, which they don’t always do

March 17, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I showed up Tuesday morning at the gorgeous Cipriani restaurant and ballroom on 42nd Street for The Future of Publishing Summit, not knowing what to expect. I had been invited to attend this in an email last month which promised an interesting program (lots of big tech companies plus a book publishing “track” led by the […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing Tagged With: Adobe, Carolyn Pittis, Cipriani, Colin Crawford, Creative Strategies, David Young, Digital Book World, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, Google, HarperCollins, HP, IDG Communications, Lorraine Shanley, Maja Thomas, MarkLogic, Marvell, Microsoft, Notion Ink, OUP, Peter Balis, Publishing Business Conference and Expo, Publishing Technologies, Qualcomm, Scrollmotion, Skiff, Sony, SXSW, Tim Bajarin, Tom Turvey, Tools of Change, VISTA Computer Services, Vook, Zinio

O’Reilly’s Offer of Distribution Points to a Larger Change

March 4, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

One of the most significant pieces of news to come out of Tools of Change is that O’Reilly is going into the distribution business for ebooks. This is indeed, a “tool” of change. It is also a harbinger of times to come that threaten a lot of big companies: major publishers; the big distributors like Perseus, […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, Bookmasters, codeMantra, Content Reserve, Ingram, IPG, LibreDigital, Michael Cader, NBN, North Point, O'Reilly Media, Perseus, Skip Prichard, Tools of Change

Do enhanced ebooks create a comeback trail for packagers?

February 20, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 19 Comments

This post contains a reference to our next conference effort: this year’s Making Information Pay for the Book Industry Study Group. There is a survey associated with this conference about how processes and job descriptions are changing that we really hope everybody employed in a publishing house — particularly those people involved in editorial, production, marketing, […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Enhanced ebook university, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, BISG, Blio, Brad Inman, Dorling Kindersley, EEBU, Enhanced Editions, Making Information Pay, Mark Twain, Octopus, Paul Hamlyn, Peter Collingridge, Peter Meyers, Quarto, Scrollmotion, Tools of Change, Vook

Stay Ahead of the Shift: What Publishers Can Do to Flourish in a Community-Centric Web World

May 29, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

Speech given at BEA 2009. Focusing on the changes that will take place in publishing in the next 20 years. With a look back to the last 20 years, we are able to look forward and predict not only how publishing will be in the future, but also how information will be shared.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, B2B, B2C, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, BEA, BISAC code, blog, Bloomsbury, Borders, CD, cloud, craigslist, Crown, DRM, eBooks, epub, Facebook, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, horizontal, iPhone, iPod, Lulu, McGraw-Hill, metrics, Nelson, Ning, O-Reilly, Penguin, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Taylor & Francis, television, The Safari Bookshelf, Tools of Change, Twitter, verticle, Wikipedia, Wiley

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