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Conferences are thermometers recording the level of fear about publishing changes

December 7, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

In the latest sign that the need for information about digital change in publishing has undergone a sea change in the past few years, it was announced today that Nielsen will not stage an independent conference in London this April, but will instead join forces with the London Book Fair to do an event there […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, David Nussbaum, Denis Bennett, Digital Book World, Diversion Books, EverAfter Romance, F+W Media, Frankfurt Book Fair, Ingenta, Ingram, KIPI, Knowledge Industry Publications, London Book Fair, Michael Cader, Microsoft, NetGalley, Nielsen, O'Reilly Media, Palm, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Weekly, Radius Book Group, Sara Domville, Scott Waxman, Sony, Tim O'Reilly, Tools of Change, VISTA Computer Services

All publishers and book retailers are global now

January 21, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

One of the key building blocks of my career was the six years I spent working on a program called “Publishing in the 21st Century” with Mark Bide and a team at Vista Computer Services (now Publishing Technologies) led by then-Chairman Denis Bennett, John Wicker (now at Tata Consulting Services), and Martyn Daniels (now at Value-Chain […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, BISG, Cristina Mussinelli, Cullen Stanley, Denis Bennett, Google, IfBookThen Conference, Ingram, John Wicker, Kobo, Mark Bide, Martyn Daniels, Michael Cairns, Nook, OverDrive, Publishing Technologies, Sao Paolo Book Fair, Scott Lubeck, Tata Consulting Services, Value-Chain International, VISTA Computer Services

Ever heard of Tata Consulting? Well, I hadn’t either…

June 6, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

The publishing industry faces some mammoth challenges that it will be very hard for any one publisher, even the biggest, to address. Costs have to be cut dramatically over the next few years. New technology is going to enable upstarts to compete in the marketplace with far less overhead and infrastructure than legacy publishers have […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: John Wicker, Klopotek, Mark Bide, Publishing Technology, Rightscom, Tata, TCS, VISTA Computer Services

Tech companies need to look like they understand publishing, which they don’t always do

March 17, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I showed up Tuesday morning at the gorgeous Cipriani restaurant and ballroom on 42nd Street for The Future of Publishing Summit, not knowing what to expect. I had been invited to attend this in an email last month which promised an interesting program (lots of big tech companies plus a book publishing “track” led by the […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing Tagged With: Adobe, Carolyn Pittis, Cipriani, Colin Crawford, Creative Strategies, David Young, Digital Book World, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, Google, HarperCollins, HP, IDG Communications, Lorraine Shanley, Maja Thomas, MarkLogic, Marvell, Microsoft, Notion Ink, OUP, Peter Balis, Publishing Business Conference and Expo, Publishing Technologies, Qualcomm, Scrollmotion, Skiff, Sony, SXSW, Tim Bajarin, Tom Turvey, Tools of Change, VISTA Computer Services, Vook, Zinio

The digital transition really IS harder for trade publishers than for other publishers

July 30, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 21 Comments

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Filed Under: Community, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing Tagged With: Business Week, Chelsea Green, F+W Media, Hachette, Hay House, Mark Bide, McGraw-Hill, VISTA Computer Services

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