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Click here for Mike Shatzkin's take.

Publishers Weekly published a list of 15 trends to watch for in 2008 by «industry guru» Mike Shatzkin.

And it would fall to Mike Shatzkin, consultant and Cader - confidant to sing the set piece of the dilemma, «Barnes and Noble Faces a Challenge That Has Not Been Clearly Spelled Out.»

Many industry observers think that the majors are losing ebook share because of their higher prices, and Mike Shatzkin has written up a remarkably compelling theory that it's Amazon that wanted a return to agency pricing in the new contracts, not the Big Five.

And, as longtime industry consultant Mike Shatzkin mentioned from the floor during questions and answers, there might be cases in which fair usage has actually increased the value of an underlying property, rather than diminishing it.

Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin discusses the erosion of shelf space in bookstores, publishing innovation, English as a disruptive force overseas, and the two priorities publishers should be focused on over the next 6 - 12 months: price experimentation and improving rights databases.

The Idea Logical Company's Mike Shatzkin, left, and Ingram Content's John Ingram talk at Digital Book World on Tuesday

Headlining his latest post Stats are often hard to interpret in our business, DBW Conference Council Chair Mike Shatzkin promises to regale all comers with just that, stats and more stats, during Wednesday's and Thursday's sessions (January 16 and 17).

«I think that everybody competing with Amazon in the e-book market had better fasten their seat belts,» Mike Shatzkin, the founder and chief executive of the Idea Logical Company, a consultant to publishers, said in an interview.

This also reinforces the concept of the Digital Vertical Niche that Mike Shatzkin likes to speak of and which I am also a fan.

I disagreed with Mike Shatzkin when he said the same thing and he wouldn't budge.

But obviously my personal observations are not as professional and insightful as those provided by Mike Shatzkin, who suggests DBW's bestselling ebook lists «deserve to be treated with respect and analyzing what they tell us is worth the effort».

If you do nothing else before Monday, you should watch Mike Shatzkin's video on the digital shift in publishing.

«Four of the big five have new deals with Amazon and only the biggest is still to negotiate one» by Mike Shatzkin at The Shatzkin Files — April 24, 2015

Singing Praises If you watched the Mike Shatzkin video (it has shuffled to new quarters now and offers a very fancy annotation system) I linked to last weekend about the digital shift, this news makes perfect sense.

Mike Shatzkin has written quite a bit on these topics so it'd be worth reading one or two or even three of his posts.

Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin also alluded to this in several articles: «Book publishing — and book retailing — are no longer stand - alone businesses»

Author Hugh Howey and agent Kristin Nelson onstage in their interview with Mike Shatzkin at Digital Book World.

After Mike Shatzkin's interview with me and Hugh Howey, I sat on a panel with my fellow agents Jane Dystel, Steve Axelrod, and Jay Mandel.

Mike Shatzkin writes about prepping this conference in Hollywood last week: Talking to Hollywood folks about publishing

If you doubt this is the case, I recommend you visit the blog run by the U.S. - based ebooks consultant Mike Shatzkin.

Still not seeing why Mike Shatzkin thinks that a hypothetical 40 % - of - net traditional royalty would make all the rest of the data irrelevant... but maybe it's just me.

Mike Shatzkin has predicted, in an extensive and widely commended analytical essay, Hats Off to Amazon, that the settlement's agreements were, in fact:

Blogs for Self - Publishers, August 1 — 7, 2015 and Yaro Starak Book Selling Webinar, including Anne R. Allen, Nina Amir, Mike Shatzkin, Warren Adler, and Big Al

Industry pundit Mike Shatzkin just wrote a long blog post in which — as an aside — he mentioned why the AuthorEarnings analysis is «doomed» to irrelevance: because some of his friends in publishing say that the true royalties at «big houses» are 40 % rather than 25 % when you factor in all the unearned advances they pay.

Meanwhile, Amazon currently sells one out of every two books in the U.S., according to digital publishing consultants Mike Shatzkin and Hugh Howey.

Publishing industry consultant Mike Shatzkin, on the other hand, believes Amazon «will do the splashiest discounting they possibly can, making the point as loudly as possible that they deliver the lowest prices to the consumer and daring their competiton to match them.»

New York - based business analyst Mike Shatzkin has made this point, and perhaps it holds true in America where the war is raging most ferociously and where none of the biggest publishers are now making their full ebook catalogues available to libraries.

The Times cited Mike Shatzkin, founder and chief executive of Ideal Logical, a publishing consultant.

So if the one - third share of the ebook market now supplied by indie self - publishers is so clearly and verifiably obvious, why do industry news sites like Publishers Lunch and veteran traditional - publishing pundits like Mike Shatzkin claim otherwise?

On Mike Shatzkin's blog you commented that authors need solid and actionable data, but by going into sub-categories you are ensuring that your dataset is neither solid nor actionable.

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Frankfurt - bound folks may want to give special consideration to the Tools of Change (TOC) Metadata Goes Global program with Brian O'Leary and Laura Dawson, and a very promising - sounding Publishers Launch event from Mike Shatzkin and Michael Cader.

Wait, is this esteemed veteran publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin who you refer to as only an industry pundit?

And it falls to industry consultant Mike Shatzkin, as everybody heads back to work, to move the debate past the sandy «not my ego» stage and into a post called Full - service publishers are rethinking what they can offer.

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by Mike Shatzkin (11/30/10)

Written by Mike Shatzkin on June 27, 2016.

Mike Shatzkin from http://idealog.com/blog suggests looking at FiledBy (http://www.filedby.com).

Industry consultants such as Mike Shatzkin observe that Amazon now has at least 50 % of the overall book retail market across print and digital formats.

Mike Shatzkin this morning said that one of the decisions that took the most time in planning Digital Book World's sixth annual conference was what order to put the options in the title of this panel.

So does the one posited by Mike Shatzkin.

You might be interested in this article from leading industry commentator Mike Shatzkin that supports your approach.

Chimerical post-script: Not completely sure where it fits in, but I think it does: Robin and José Afonso Furtado pointed me to this post by Mike Shatzkin about the future of bookselling, arguing (I'm paraphrasing) that with online retailers like Amazon obliterating physical bookstores, we need a new kind of intermediary that helps curate and consolidate books for the consumer, «powered» by Amazon.

I have only occasionally read Mike Shatzkin, but when I have I've found him informative and generous, if a bit old school.

Agent Kristin Nelson was bracingly up front when interviewed by Mike Shatzkin in January at Digital Book World about her groundbreaking print - only deal for client Hugh Howey with Simon & Schuster, including telling us that she initially had misgivings about whether the deal being offered was fully endorsed by the company.

This morning's sessions will include presentations by Mike Shatzkin and James McQuivey.

Official notice that Mike Shatzkin of Idea Logical Company has a blog, I've yet to not like a post!

There aren't many people who have their pulse on the publishing biz quite like Mike Shatzkin does.

«There's never been anything like the potential for domination by a single company in the U.S. book business like what we see now with Amazon,» said Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of The Idea Logical, a New York publishing consultancy.