Archives for October 2025
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Join Us This Week for A Look Behind the Paywall
On Wednesday, October 8, we are having a virtual demo of a number of recent Publishers Marketplace innovations—at 2pm Eastern. If you want a peek at the benefits of membership, register for our Zoom event here. We will walk members through the three cool new Publishers Marketplace features we announced in September: an improved Dealmakers that targets the market based on publisher size and specialization, Top Deals for finding the right comps fast, and Rights Matcher for discovering international rights opportunities for your titles. And we’ll take a look at Salary Search and the redesigned Member Profiles as well.
Flanagan Rejects Prize Money In Protest Over Fossil Fuel Investments
QUESTION 7 author Richard Flanagan has refused to collect his £50,000 award for the UK’s Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction, which he won last year. At the 2024 award ceremony, Flanagan said that he would not accept the prize until investment management firm Baillie Gifford came up with a plan to divest from hydrocarbon interests. “Toby Mundy, the prize director, confirmed on Wednesday that after a ‘detailed and candid conversation’ with the company’s senior partners, Flanagan had said he was not going to accept the money,” The Times reports. The sum will be donated to a literacy charity. Baillie Gifford […]
Third Quarter Deals Remain Strong
Overall deal reports remained strong in the third quarter, running ahead of the consumer marketplace, though there was some softening in what has been a long run of new records for major deals in particular and six-figure deals overall. After a soft second quarter (when deal reports declined 4.7 percent, due to a big drop in reports from digital publishers), third quarter deals were up 4.8 percent over the same period in 2024. Fiction remained strong, up over 9 percent, while adult fiction and children’s books declined modestly, and digital publisher deals recovered after a weak first half of the year. […]
Join Us Next Week for A New Features Demo
Next Wednesday, October 8, we are having a virtual demo of a number of recent Publishers Marketplace innovations—at 2pm Eastern. Register for our Zoom event here. We will walk members through the three cool new Publishers Marketplace features we announced in September: an improved Dealmakers that targets the market based on publisher size and specialization, Top Deals for finding the right comps fast, and Rights Matcher for discovering international rights opportunities for your titles. And we’ll take a look at Salary Search and the redesigned Member Profiles as well.