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Temperature check from two US CEOs at Frankfurt 2017

October 18, 2017 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

It is no surprise that the public remarks at Frankfurt by Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle and Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy contain gems worth pondering. Book publishing has been fortunate to have really smart people leading the biggest companies during our period of digital transition. The apparent collusion over the implementation of […]

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Two new initiatives to ponder as we end the year

December 28, 2012 by Admin 1 Comment

Two announcements made in the last two weeks caught our attention. One was Simon & Schuster’s deal with Author Solutions, creating a new Archway Editions publishing imprint. This was the third such major deal with a publisher for ASI, following similar arrangements forged with romance publisher Harlequin and Christian publisher Thomas Nelson (now owned by […]

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