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The implications of the computer moving from the desktop to our hip pocket

November 4, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 13 Comments

Benedict Evans of Andreessen/Horowitz (an indispensible observer of digital change across media, and an analyst who explains Amazon better than any other I know) did a presentation called “Mobile is Eating the World”. It spells out the fact that just about everybody is going to have smartphones with connectivity very soon. One slide (slide 6) […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Aerbook, Amazon Author Central, Andreessen/Horowitz, Benedict Evans, Bong, Chromecast, Citia, Duck Duck Go, Facebook, Google, iPhone, Linda Holliday, Ron Martinez, Twitter, Wikipedia, Wolphram Alpha

Digging up a 15-year old speech, and a lesson in preservation

October 3, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

One thing I’ve heard often and dismissed is that we need print to preserve intellectual property. I figure that digital files are less destructible than paper and that, with any care at all, it should be possible to create more reliable preservation of bits than of atoms. I still think that. However… A month ago […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Leonard Shatzkin, Publishing Technology, VISTA, Wikipedia

Stay Ahead of the Shift: What Publishers Can Do to Flourish in a Community-Centric Web World

May 29, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 35 Comments

Speech given at BEA 2009. Focusing on the changes that will take place in publishing in the next 20 years. With a look back to the last 20 years, we are able to look forward and predict not only how publishing will be in the future, but also how information will be shared.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, B2B, B2C, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, BEA, BISAC code, blog, Bloomsbury, Borders, CD, cloud, craigslist, Crown, DRM, eBooks, epub, Facebook, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, horizontal, iPhone, iPod, Lulu, McGraw-Hill, metrics, Nelson, Ning, O-Reilly, Penguin, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Taylor & Francis, television, The Safari Bookshelf, Tools of Change, Twitter, verticle, Wikipedia, Wiley

Will You Recognize the Industry in 10 Years?

February 1, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

There is no doubt that the industry is in a period of significant transition. What can we expect 10 to 15 years from now?… Ten years from now, there will still be more books sold that were printed centrally and warehoused for sale than all other ways combined, but the end of that era will be in sight.

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Big Six, cloud, Facebook, Google, Ingram, Outsell, Print-On-Demand, SharedBooks, Wikipedia, Wiley

The Future of Books for Publishers and Booksellers

May 7, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

There is a big picture and a long arc within which our day-to-day activities are taking place. The 20th century consumer media were horizontal in their subject matter — that is, very broad — and format-specific. In the States, that means entities like CBS or NBC in television, The New York Times, or Random House. All of these companies provide content across the full range of human subject interests, but they pretty much stick to their formats: broadcast, newspapers, and books, respectively

Filed Under: Speeches Tagged With: Amazon, B2B, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Berrett-Koehler, BookSearch, BookSurge, Borders, CBS, Chelsea Green, DAD, DRM, eBooks, Espresso, Google, Hachette, Harlequin, HarperCollins, horizontal, Ingram, iPod, iTunes, Kindle, LibraryThing, LibreDigital, Lightning, Lightning Source, Lingua Franca, metadata, Microsoft, MySpace, NBC, On Demand Books, ONIX, Open Social, Print-On-Demand, Random House, Rodale, SharedBooks, Simon & Schuster, Sony, television, The Long Tail, verticle, Wikipedia, XML

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