In most circles round numbers are the ones of special note, but if you lived in Baltimore in the 1960s, the magic of the number 19 was instantly recognizable, since that was what Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas wore on his jersey. Known as “The Golden Arm,” Unitas was in the vanguard of modern quarterbacks and still ranks as among the greatest ever. To make this publishing related, the Colts used to hold summer pre-season training on the campus of a college in Westminster, MD, three miles away from what’s now better known as the home of Penguin Random House’s largest […]
Publishers Marketplace Tips
Introducing PM Site Tour
In response to user questions, we have put together a brief tutorial on how to use the Publishers Marketplace website. This short screencast highlights some of the most popular features of PM, as well as a few less-known but useful gems, to help you learn how to maximize our website’s benefits. A free version is available to nonmembers, which includes screenshots from behind the paywall, showing what some of our most popular members-only features look like. Click here to view.
Helping Writers At Publishers Marketplace
Agents, editors, authors and others kindly continue to direct writers to join PublishersMarketplace.com. To help those members make the most of our resources, we have finally posted a Writer’s Guide to PM, answering a number of frequently asked questions about researching agents, deals and more. But this is just a start; we welcome your additional tips and tricks — as well as things you would like writers to know to use PM responsibly and effectively. Let us know your thoughts at info@publishersmarketplace.com, thanks.
Real Sales Data, Broadly Accessible
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 Bookscan sales offer are available only to agents, scouts and authors.) Now anyone can afford to research and follow industry-standard book sales data whenever needed. For each ISBN, you’ll see actual, tracked US print sales for the most recent week, the year to date, and […]
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 program that provides an affordable monthly subscription to a limited package of sales data, that lets qualified members follow or research up to 5 different ISBNs a month. For each ISBN, you’ll see actual, tracked US print sales for the most recent week, the year […]
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 your mobile devices if you want to keep an eye on Lunch News, Deals, Automat stories, Jobs and more over the holidays. (The URL is m.publishersmarketplace.com.)