• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

No Fair, But Abundant Deals

October 14, 2020
By Michael Cader

As indicated in our early look at the first three weeks of post-Labor Day dealmaking in the US, transactions have remained strong in the five weeks and one day that we measure every year as the pre-Frankfurt Book Fair period. Here are the updated results, now with pretty charts. Total deal volume was up Pre-Frankfurt US deal totals have been consistently dead flat for the past five years — but this year, they spiked to their second-highest total in the past decade. Overall reports were up 11.5 percent over last year (81 more deals). And this year’s count was just […]

Login to read full story

Filed Under: Book Fairs, Deals

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • Oddsmakers Favor Chinese Author Xue or Haruki Murakami for Literature Nobel October 4, 2023 Guardian
  • New Contributing Writers to The Washington Post's Book World October 3, 2023 Washington Post
  • How Lester Del Rey "Invented Fantasy Fiction As We Know It" October 2, 2023 Dan Sinykin Excerpt, Slate
  • John Grisham's "Enduring Charm" October 2, 2023 Time
  • Michael Lewis Writes Sam Bankman-Fried "Was Told" Trump Wouid Drop Out of Presidential Race for $5 Billion October 2, 2023 Washington Post
  • If or When Amazon Wants to Identify Books Made By AI, Software Detection Companies Say They Are Ready September 29, 2023 Wired
  • Cundhill History Prize Shortlist Announced September 28, 2023 Prize site
  • Nobel for Literature to be Announced October 5 September 28, 2023 NYT
  • With Sales Down 30% on Book Bans, Levine Querido Authors Raise Over $100,000 In Auction September 27, 2023 PW
  • Taylor & Francis to Make Voluntary Separation Offer; Threatens Layoffs to Follow September 25, 2023 Bookseller
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.