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We’re getting SaaS-y, going Hollywood, and starting to plan Digital Book World 2013

May 2, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

It is hard to believe that we’re starting to plan the fourth annual Digital Book World conference, which will be held January 16-17, 2013 at the Hilton in New York City. But we are. The first DBW was held in 2010. Planning for it began the June before when David Nussbaum and Sara Domville of […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Conferences, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "eBooks for Everyone Else", ABC, AcademicPub, Amazon, aNobii, Book Country, CBS, Copyright Clearance Center, David Houle, David Nussbaum, Digital Book World 2013, F+W Media, Fox, HarperCollins, Hyperion, Macmillan, Matteo Berlucchi, Michael Cader, NBC, O'Reilly, Pottermore, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishers Launch Hollywood, Publishing in the Cloud, Rightslink, S&S, SaaS, Safari, Sara Domville, Semi-Linear, Sourcebooks, Tor.com

Publishers adding value on the marketing side

November 17, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 39 Comments

Obviously my day job, consulting, informs a lot of what goes into The Shatzkin Files. I guess it is just as obvious that I can’t quote everybody who tells me something or attribute everything I want to write about to a specific company or individual. I don’t make a living writing this blog and I […]

Filed Under: Authors, Conferences, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Alice Walker, Amazon, Barbara Marcus, Carl Hiaasen, Diversion Books, Fritz Foy, HarperCollins, Jane Friedman, Lawrence Block, Macmillan, Open Road, Pablo Defendini, Rachel Chou, Random House, Scott Waxman, Tor.com, William Styron

The old publishing value chain got twisted a bit last week

May 8, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 20 Comments

Although the value chain in trade publishing for the last century has, for the most part, kept retailers between publishers and consumers and kept publishers between retailers and authors, that has never been 100% true. Doubleday covered the whole value chain in the 1950s, when it not only owned the Doubleday Book Shops and the […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, Bookish, Borders, Brentano's, Copia, David Houle, Doubleday, Doubleday Book Shops, Evolution Shift, F+W Media, GoodReads, Google, Hachette, Holtzbrinck, Houghton Harcourt, Ingram, Kindle, Kobo, Library Thing, Literary Guild, Macmillan, Montlake Romances, Penguin, Pub It, Simon & Schuster, Sterling, The Shift Age, Tor.com, Walden

Is the ebook and POD combo a viable publishing strategy yet?

September 12, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

There’s a new publishing model afoot, which is to lead with the ebook and just print what you need. That might be POD, and it might be press runs, if you can sell out whole press runs. If the ebook becomes a substantial chunk of sales and if ebooks maintain their prices, this looks like […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ellora's Cave, Eoin Purcell, Google, Harlequin, Kassia Kroszer, Kindle, PublishersMarketplace, Quartet, Richard Nash, Tor.com

A Little Ado About Something

September 7, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

The transition from print to digital is going to be a continual lesson in branding for publishers and in merchandising for retailers. I got a dose of that trying to make use of modern technology to deal with an old common problem last week. I knew two or three weeks before that I was going […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Andrew Savikas. Ami Greko, BN .com, Boscobel. Shakespeare, Google, Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Peter Strauss, Princeton, Random House, Tor.com, William Seymour Theater Collection

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