Thanks for the nice feedback on our updated Lunch design (and remember to expect Weekly and Daily Deals to switch over to the new format next week). Our development pipeline has been especially busy lately and today we are rolling out a new site refinement we hope you will find useful. Ever since we launched the Dealmakers interface, it has been our most-visited data collection in the aggregate. All along, the Dealmaker lists have surfaced the most active buyers and sellers across about 70 categories and sub-categories. As the industry has finally started to diversify more meaningfully, we wanted to […]
Publishers Marketplace Tips
Introducing Our Summer Discuss Guests
Pamela Dorman, vice president and publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, joins as us as the next of our featured regular guests in the new PM user forum, Discuss, Wednesday, July 7 at noon, ET. Stacey Barney, associate publisher, Penguin/Nancy Paulsen Books and executive editor, Putnam Children’s, follows on Wednesday, July 21, with Patrice Caldwell, agent and author wrapping up our summer schedule on August 4. Here are a few sample questions to get you started: how an agent can get around issue of editors who are overwhelmed by submissions. agented submissions vs. direct submissions, as well as tips on direct […]
Behold
Yes, as noted briefly last week, this looks different. And with luck, better! After many months of development, we are pleased to introduce a fresh look and improved coding for our daily newsletters. The initial, and primary, goal was to make Lunch display better on mobile viewports and across the wide variety of common email services (all of which have their own special ways of mangling email code). As with most renovations, that starting point quickly turned into an opportunity to rethink and revise a lot of our common features and ways of presenting information every day. At the same […]
Good Changes
We are quietly at work on site changes and new initiatives all the time and it has been a particularly busy stretch recently. Sometimes those changes are subtle and occasionally they are unavoidable. Some time very soon — perhaps as soon as next week — you’re going to open your Lunch and it will look different. And better. So don’t be too surprised!
Agent Josh Getzler on Discuss, Today at Noon
Join literary agent Josh Getzler at Publishers Marketplace’s online Discuss forum, Wednesday, June 16 at noon Eastern – to ask questions about how to find the right agent, how best to work with your agent, or anything else that pertains to agents. No need to sign up in advance, simply log on to PM, then use this link to get to Discuss. A reminder that these are straightforward typed message board conversations. No cameras, no sound, no zooming, no separate apps required. Use the “reply” button to type your questions or comments, and Josh will post back. You can post questions […]
Our Next Discuss Guests: Lynch, Hochman and Getzler
Mark your schedules for our next roster of featured guests on Wednesdays at the new PublishersMarketplace forum, Discuss. We are delighted to welcome: May 19: SVP & publisher at Flatiron Books Megan Lynch June 2: Literary agent Gail Hochman at Brandt & Hochman June 16: Literary agent Josh Getzler at HG Literary The discussions are always at Noon Eastern, and last about 30 minutes. These are straight-forward, typed, message board conversations. You don’t need any invitations, or links beyond those above. Discuss has no cameras, no sound, no zooming, no separate apps required. It’s typing. Use the “reply” button to […]