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Everybody in Hollywood Needs an eBook Strategy

May 14, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

As a result of spending my college days at UCLA, I had a handful of contacts in the Hollywood community when I came back East to live in 1969. When I started becoming familiar with New York publishing in the 1970s, I found myself, on occasion, shopping movie or TV tie-in projects. Armed with a […]

Filed Under: Authors, Autobiographical, Conferences, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "All in the Family", "Casablanca", "Cotton Candy", "Film/TV-to-Book", "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Seinfeld", ABC Video Books, Amanda Hocking, F+W Media, Hollywood, Hyperion, Michael Fabiano, NBC Publishing, Ron Howard, St. Martin's, Story World, UCLA, Warner Brothers Digital Distribution

Long ago at the Los Angeles Times Book Review

December 22, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

Although the decline of newspaper book review sections is just a sub-set of the larger sadness of the overall demise of newspapers, I was struck by the recent report of the mighty Los Angeles Times Book Review being stripped down to practically nothing. I haven’t read it for years, but this news made me think about […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Digby Diehl, Los Angeles Times, Martha Moran, Robert Kirsch, UCLA, Up With People

Malcolm Gladwell, please meet John Wooden

July 9, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

The sui generis Malcolm Gladwell wrote a provocative piece in the May 11 New Yorker, “How David Beats Goliath”, that demonstrates that the underdog can often win by adopting an unconventional strategy. The examples were numerous, and included Lawrence of Arabia, but the central point-maker was a girls basketball team. Their coach, an Iranian national […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, Chuckles Tagged With: John Wooden, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lew Alcindor, Malcolm Gladwell, Rick Pitino, UCLA

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