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The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know® - Softcover

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Shatzkin, Mike; Riger, Robert Paris

 
9780190628048: The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Synopsis

The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) covers every aspect of the trade book publishing business in order to offer a primer for interested outsiders and those within looking for a bird's eye view of a centuries-old industry.

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About the Author

Mike Shatzkin has been a consultant to the book publishing industry and its trading partners on supply chain and digital change issues for more than four decades. His clients have included every major US publisher, many non-US publishers, retailers including Borders and Barnes & Noble, wholesalers including Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and a variety of printers, literary agencies, and digital startups.

Robert Paris Riger (1961 - 2018) was a longtime publisher and author. He ran both major book club organizations before he was 30, co-founded the publishing consulting firm Market Partners International, and spent several years at Barnes & Noble building and leading the marketing for their Spark Notes program. He was most recently VP and Director of Pimsleur Language Programs at Simon & Schuster. Robert was fluent in several languages, including German and French, and experienced publishing's digital transition on the frontlines with Spark Notes and Pimsleur. He died unexpectedly a month

after this book's manuscript was completed.

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