We’ve had a great reception to our latest initiative opening up access to real book sales from Bookscan. It’s been a little over a month since we launched affordable monthly subscriptions to a limited package of NPD Bookscan sales data, that lets qualified members follow or research up to 5 different ISBNs a month. (Our…
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A New Way for Agents and Authors to View Bookscan Sales Data
For a long time we have helped level the playing field and provided transparency by offering agents, scouts and authors unlimited access to the NPD Bookscan database of book sales through annual subscriptions (along with an optional upgrade to view the PubTrack Digital ebook sales database). Now we are taking that further with a new…
One Last Offer
As we did around Thanksgiving, we are opening up PublishersMarketplace.com for a brief free trial, lasting through January 1 — which will be the last opportunity like this for quite some time, so feel free to share if you wish. And, as we noted before the holidays, PM members can load the simple PM News App on…
Take Us With You
One more pre-holiday message. As usual, Publishers Lunch will be suspended for a bit, while PublishersMarketplace.com remains open all the time and will be logging deals, news, jobs and other items as they come in, albeit at a more leisurely pace. (14 new jobs were posted this week alone if you are in the market…
Password Changes (and Please Change Your Password)
Members may remember that earlier this year we revamped our password system at Publishers Marketplace, allowing longer passwords and special characters and switching to a more secure way of resetting passwords via an online link (so that your data is never exposed via email). As previewed at the time, we’re now rolling in the final…
Here We Are Again
As sometimes happens when you get a little older, with the big election and early arrival Thanksgiving we decided to postpone marking the anniversary of PublishersMarketplace.com for a month. Now just over 17 years old, we’re almost legal and getting ready for our adulthood. The standard reminder: Publishers Lunch is older by about a year…