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Publishers do need to sell direct, but here are five things they should at least be started on first

January 5, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

The “Code Meet Print” blog by Glenn Nano recently reprised a subject I wrote about 18 months ago: the benefits that flow to publishers that sell direct. In that piece, I highlighted the disagreement that seemed to exist at that time between my advocacy of direct selling of ebooks particularly and Random House’s lack of […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "Code Meet Print", Amazon, DRM, F+W Media, Facebook, Glenn Nano, HarperCollins, Instagram, Logical Marketing Agency, Narnia, Osprey, Penguin, Peter McCarthy, Random House, Twitter

Book marketers need to rethink three things: time, timing, and budgeting

October 23, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 11 Comments

The three big shifts taking place in trade book publishing are very much interrelated. The fact that consumers are buying about half their books online is one. That means that publishers are not entirely dependent on books being placed at retail to make sales, which is the second. And the marketing that used to take […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter

Don’t blame Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter for the fact that technology changes behavior

September 22, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

In the past week, we have seen the Louis C.K. rant against smart phones, the Jonathan Franzen deep intellectual swipe at what Amazon is doing to the world of publishing, and I had an exchange with a very dear old friend who does email (his wife doesn’t), but can’t handle texting or Facebook. Or thinks he […]

Filed Under: New Models, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Amazon, BN .com, David Houle, Digital Book World, Facebook, Jonathan Franzen, Louis C.K., Michael Cader, Peter McCarthy, Publishers Launch Conferences, Richard C. Wade, Samuel F.B. Morse, Twitter

Marketing will replace editorial as the driving force behind publishing houses

September 4, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 37 Comments

One of the things my father, Leonard Shatzkin, taught me when I was first learning about book publishing a half-century ago was that “all publishing houses are started with an editorial inspiration”. What he meant by that is that what motivated somebody to start a book publisher was an idea about what to publish. That […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Bennett Cerf, Doubleday, Facebook, Google, Hilsinger-Mendelson, Iris Blasi, Leonard Shatzkin, Modern Library, Parragon Books, Peter McCarthy, Philip Turner, Pinterest, Random House, Sir Allen Lane, Sterling, Twitter

7 starter principles for digital book marketing learned from Peter McCarthy

August 12, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

Times are changing in publishing and publishers know it. Almost every publisher recognizes that their value to authors, and therefore their future, is dependent on their ability to deliver effective marketing at scale. In this day and age, that means digital marketing, which also has the characteristic of being “data-driven” marketing. And not only is […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, Conferences, Direct response, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, Scale, Supply-Chain, Unbundling, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Angela Tribelli, behavior, Biztegra, BN .com, Brad Thomas Parsons, demographics, Erica Curtis, Facebook, GoodReads, Hachette, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jeff Dodes, LinkedIn, Matt Litts, Matt Schwartz, Miriam Parker, Murray Izenwasser, New York Review, Open Road, Penguin, Penny Sansevieri, Peter McCarthy, psychographics, Rachel Chou, Random House, Running Press, Smithsonian, Sourcebooks, St. Martin's Press, Susie Sizoler, The Reader's Catalog, Twitter

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