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New data on the Long Tail impact suggests rethinking history and ideas about the future of publishing

June 25, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 66 Comments

For most of my lifetime, the principal challenge a publisher faced to get a book noticed by a consumer and sold was to get it on the shelves in bookstores. Data was always scarce (I combed for it for years) but everything I ever saw reported confirmed that customers generally chose from what was made […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: B. Dalton, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Booknet Canada, Borders, BP Reports, Brentano's, Cambridge University Press, Collier's Encyclopedia, Crowell-Collier, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, HHI, Ingram, Kindle, Leonard Shatzkin, Lightning, Macmillan Publishers, Marcello Vena, Noah Genner, Oxford University Press, publishing history, RCS Libri, Two Continents, Walden

Some things I will be looking to learn more about at London Book Fair

April 1, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The London Book Fair is an every-second-or-third-year thing for me, going back many decades. From an English-centric perspective, it is like a mini-Frankfurt. All the UK players are there and a lot of US senior executives. But because it is so accessible to the Continent, you can get a taste of how things look to […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, Scale, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BIC, BISAC, Bruce Robertson, Diagram Group, Google, Kobo, London Book Fair, Nook, Paddington Press, Peter McCarthy, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Two Continents, Walmart, Waterstone's, WHSmith

Vendor-managed inventory: why it is more important than ever

April 23, 2013 by Mike Shatzkin 9 Comments

The idea of vendor-managed inventory has never become particularly popular in the book business, despite a few experiments over the years where it was implemented with great success. (And despite the fact that I was pushing for it back in 1997 and 1998.) But as the book business overall declines, with the print book business […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Above the Treeline, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Doubleday, Doubleday Merchandising Plan, Leonard Shatzkin, Philip Van Doren Stern, Two Continents, vendor-managed inventory, West Broadway Book Distribution

Ruth Cavin, great editor and world’s nicest person, gone at 92

January 10, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 58 Comments

The title of “nicest person on the planet” is now open. The longtime incumbent, Ruth Cavin — also a veteran book editor who was known to many as the doyenne of mysteries — died early Sunday morning at the age of 92. She was still holding down a full time position as an editor with […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: "Dinners for Beginners", "Trolleys", A.J. Shively, Al Silverman, Bram Cavin, Carnegie Tartan, Carnegie Tech, David Sobel, Dolphin Books, Doubleday, Eleanor Oshry, Eleanor Shatzkin, Emily Cavin, Harper, Joan Kahn, Leonard Shatzkin, Nora Cavin, Norman Thomas, Philip Turner, Ruth Brodie, Ruth Cavin, Sally Richardson, St. Martin's Press, Thomas Dunne Books, Tom McCormack, Tony Cavin, Two Continents, Walker and Company, World Publishing, YPSLs

A Mother’s Day Tribute to My Mom: Elky Shatzkin

May 8, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 24 Comments

I’ve written several times about my father’s life in the book business, which shaped quite a few careers, including mine. Here’s one. Andanother. This post, for Mother’s Day weekend, is about my father’s other great passion: my mother. Eleanor Oshry Shatzkin — Elky to everybody who knew her — was the first woman to graduate from the […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Politics Tagged With: Bill Porter, Carnegie Tartan, Carnegie Tech, Congressman John Hall, Croton Shakespeare Festival, Elky Shatzkin, J.K. Lasser & Company, Kaufman's Department Store, Len Shatzkin, Longacre Press, Manhattan Project, Montefiore Hospital, Peter Drucker, Picker, Picker X-Ray Corporation, Sam Oshry, Two Continents, Young & Rubicam

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