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Catching Up
Welcome to 2026. There was plenty of news over the past two weeks, and as promised we were covering live at our site and through a couple of catch-up newsletters. In case you missed them, here’s a quick review: January Picks Amazon Has Constrained “Ask This Book,” Though Authors Guild Believes It’s An Infringing Derivative Use Speculating on Barnes & Noble’s Sales “Public Domain Day” Features Faulkner, Nancy Drew and More Audible Tests In-App Promo Videos 2025: The Year In Stories Anthropic settlement: Before retiring, Judge Alsup lambasted the proposed fees for additional attorneys Meet the New Judge in the […]
A PM Free Trial to End the Year
To brighten the year-end, we have a brief free trial period available at PublishersMarketplace.com. Try out all of the new features we launched this year and more, with no continuing obligation (though we hope you’ll stay) — available now, from December 30 until January 2. Please follow the posted conditions — and enjoy!
A Moment of Thanks
Many years procrastination nudges the annual acknowledgement of the anniversary of the founding of Publishers Marketplace so close to the holidays that it naturally merges into a general expression of giving thanks, which always feels appropriate, and this year we are truly down to the wire. Earlier this year we quietly began the extended marking of 25 years of the Lunch / Marketplace combo buffet. Publishers Lunch began in the spring of 2000 on an unmarked date since I didn’t know that I was starting something, though domain records indicate the URL was claimed on April 4, 2000. It truly […]
Easier Deal Reporting
The next time you fill out our deal report forms, you will notice that we have implemented a helpful auto-complete feature for all of the “dealmaker” entities — editors, imprints, agents, and agencies — to help you match your entry to the over 30,000 canonical name forms as we already track them. That will help avoid spelling errors, typos and a whole range of name variations for companies that deviate from our style sheets — which in turns helps us post your deals more quickly, and with greater accuracy and consistency! Please let the system do its work — which […]
Missed Our New Features Demo? Watch It on Our New YouTube Channel
Visit our new YouTube channel to watch the full demo session from earlier this month covering 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 — as well as Salary Search and the redesigned Member Profiles You will see that we also have bite-sized short clips on each of those features as well, as we start to build out a full video help center for PM members.