Mike Hendrickson

Mike Hendrickson has held a variety of positions in the publishing industry including, Product Development Manager, Editor, Executive Editor, Editor-in-Chief, and Associate Publisher. Two constants are that he has always enjoyed meeting tech people and being involved with cutting-edge technologies. At O’Reilly, he is a Vice President for Content Strategy. He is the co-Author of The Best Android Apps.

2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 5 - Wrap-Up and Digital

by  | @mikehatora  | +Mike Hendrickson | 23 February 2011

In this final post, I provide a summary of the first four posts, provide some insight into a view of top authors, and include some data on electronic books and how parts of the digital world are surpassing the print world.

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The future of the book

The future of the book

The book of the future requires collaboration, so let's start the change before we have to.

by  | @mikehatora  | +Mike Hendrickson | 22 February 2011

During lunch at TOC last week, we had a roundtable discussion that centered on the future of the book. The conversation touched on many different areas as you would expect: from distribution and inventory, to pricing and formats, to audience ownership and engagement.

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2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 4 - The Languages

by  | @mikehatora  | +Mike Hendrickson | 21 February 2011

In the fourth post in this series, we look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area.

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2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 3 - The Publishers

by  | @mikehatora  | +Mike Hendrickson | 17 February 2011

In this third installment we will look at how publishers fared in 2010, as compared to 2009.

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2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 2 - The Categories

2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 2 - The Categories

by  | @mikehatora  | +Mike Hendrickson | 14 February 2011

In this second installment, we look at computer book sales in specific technology categories

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2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 1 - Overall Market

2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 1 - Overall Market

by  | @mikehatora  | +Mike Hendrickson | 10 February 2011

In the previous two years, since the last State of the Computer Book Market posts, the tech book market has been going through some major changes.

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