Join us Wednesday, September 15 at noon eastern to ask editorial director for Oprah’s Book Club Leigh Haber your questions. She is the next of our featured regular guests in the PM user forum, Discuss. We took a little summer break and now will return with a new expert guest every two weeks. Check here to see the full roster for the rest of the season to add to your calendar now. These AMAs are straightforward, typed message board conversations. No cameras, no sound, no zooming, no separate apps required. So ask away and feel free to post questions in advance. […]
Publishers Marketplace Tips
Last Day For Our Summer Sale
We’ve already had a great reception for our experimental Summer Sale — and today is the last day for this offer. Use the promo code summer21 in the provided box when you enroll and get $10 off the first month’s membership fee (a 40 percent reduction). The code expires at the end of the day today. Feel free to alert anyone who might be interested.
A Summer Sale
I’m not sure we have ever done this before, but it has been a long time since we have offered any kind of discount at PublishersMarketplace. So we are trying a little summer sale this week. Use the promo code summer21 in the provided box when you enroll and get $10 off the first month’s membership fee (a 40 percent reduction). The code will work through lucky Friday the 13th. Also note, for another value approach to our deep resources at PM, earlier this year we introduced a Quick Pass option — providing short-term use of the site for a […]
On the Menu(s)
If you’re still adjusting to the revised, mobile-friendly navigational menus at PublishersMarketplace.com, we have added a short demonstration video to help. You can also find it through the Help menu at any time.
Second Quarter Deals Remain Very Strong
HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray told an investor conference in June that the publisher is, “Being aggressive in terms of buying books. We’ve seen the book pie grow, maybe 15 percent. And so our response, which is part opportunistic and part defensive, is to be aggressive in buying right now.” Our exclusive analysis of deal transactions in the second quarter of 2021 confirms that behavior, across the industry. In the first quarter, US deal volume was 19 percent higher than a year ago (and 21 percent higher than the recent four-year average). For the second quarter, deal volume again registered 18 […]
Join Us Wednesday, July 7 for Our Next Live Discussion, with Publisher Pam Dorman
At noon Eastern on Wednesday, July 7, publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/Viking Pam Dorman joins as us as the next of our featured regular guests in the new PM user form, Discuss. She’ll answer questions such as submitting to overwhelmed editors; what editors look for in proposals; and more.