New Deals, Proposals, and More For all the latest deals in advance of Deal Lunch, including 14 new ones so far since Friday morning (including a paperback deal for the oldest man ever to have his first bestseller, at age 85), join us at PublishersMarketplace.com and click below. The latest rights board proposals continues to fill with new offerings every day, including a recent post for “the real-life account of the 1996 abduction of an airline pilot who was held hostage in Africa as a pawn in an airline deal gone sour.” Last week was one of our biggest ever […]
Lunch for February 8, 2002
New Deals, Proposals, and More New deals include two books that might star Tom Cruise, why the Yankees have ruined baseball, a first novel of baseball and beyond, and more. The latest rights board proposals include lots of new novels, including a Dickensian look at struggles inside a New England factory by a leading professor of law. And every day brings more traffic to our member pages (with over 40,000 page views so far this week), the addictive tracking page that follows books for you at BN.com, Amazon, and 11 bestseller lists, the contact and deal databases, and more. Try […]
Lunch for February 7, 2002
New Deals, Proposals, and More Fascinating new deals include a first fiction pre-empt for a twenty-one-year old student, a novel from Neal Pollack, a biography from Phoebe Hoban, stories of the OSS and the new green berets, global markets post 9/11, and more. The latest rights board proposals include an historical novel that’s sold over 2,000 copies through Xlibris in just a few months. And every day brings more traffic to our member pages, the addictive tracking page that follows books for you at BN.com, Amazon, and 11 bestseller lists, the contact and deal databases, and more. Try us with […]
Lunch for February 6, 2002
New Deals, Proposals, and More If you’re not part of our Marketplace than you missed news of 12 new deals just yesterday, including a brave trek through Antarctica, a booklover’s travel memoir, a pre-empted novel, a big deal for two TV doctors, a newsmaking memoir, and still more. Plus, every day is bringing lots of new proposals from agents and writers on our Rights Board (as I’m sure you noted, Deal Lunch has been carrying news of books discovered and sold through the board). Some of the latest entries include a book on a 1944 commando raid to destroy Japanese […]
Lunch for February 5, 2002
Who Is on Top? We’ll have a number of new deals to post later day (it’s a crazy day for me). As noted yesterday, Now every day the PublishersMarketplace.com home page shows the ten most visited member pages of the week. Members can also see Lunch headlines first thing in the morning (before we Lunch is fully baked) and a deal of the day. Traffic keeps growing, as do letters from members making all kinds of great connections through the site. As I’ve said, one motivation for the new site is to try and take the power of Lunch in […]
Lunch for February 4, 2002
Court Stops Tolkien Guide as Houghton Finds Itself on the Other Side of the Infringement Fence Whether or not you believed that THE WIND DONE GONE was deserving of parody protection, it was easy to admire the tenacity of Houghton Mifflin in defending an author who was not destined from the start for the bestseller list. But now that defense — cast at the time as part of the company’s storied history — seems to have been less than a broad stand, as last Thursday Houghton won a preliminary injunction from U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein preventing publication of Michael […]