We are working on a broad piece looking at sales trends in 2020 and shifts among various sales channel but before we get to that, we are long overdue for an analysis of Deal trends from the year. (As always, our analysis is based on deal reports at PublishersMarketplace.com. Like all book industry datasets it…
Deals
Mug Shots
Last year we quietly added a Screenshot View to every new deal to help make it easy to capture and share individual reports — but as usual, creative authors (and their friends) are leading the way in innovation. So far, we have seen at least three of these deals as mugs:
Simon & Schuster Cancels Josh Hawley’s Book
With a growing chorus of complaints on social media and around the nation Thursday, at the end of the business day Simon & Schuster swiftly cancelled their forthcoming book from Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri. The company said in a statement, “After witnessing the disturbing, deadly insurrection that took place on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.,…
More Deal Stats: A Lot of Debuts, and A Rebound for Fiction
As noted in yesterday’s overview of US deal reports ahead of when the Frankfurt Book Fair would have convened, a notable strength this year has been a surge in debut fiction sales. As this chart makes clear, the 59 reports in the measured period are almost twice the average number of debut fiction sales from…
No Fair, But Abundant Deals
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…
Rights Pitches Begin
Virtual pitch sessions filling the gap following the cancellation of the Frankfurt Book Fair begin next Monday. From our modest crowd-sourced schedule, the week begins with the Pontas Agency presenting Booker-shortlisted Avni Doshi and her UK editor Hermione Thompson, though BURNT SUGAR has already been licensed in many territories. To add your event(s) to our…
