With celebration in the air ahead of tonight’s National Book Awards ceremony and the first quiet[er] news day in a while, we’re able to take a beat and mark the occasion: This month is the 16th anniversary of PublishersMarketplace.com. (As usual, that means Publishers Lunch on its own is close to 18 years old, though we didn’t know we were “starting something” when it began, so there’s no official birthdate.) We were amused by a recent WSJ article on the hot trend in which “Niche Online Publishers Bank on Subscriptions Over Advertising.” Their contention is that selling subscriptions and memberships […]
Publishers Marketplace Tips
Make Your Own News
Today we introduce a new feature that people have been requesting for a long time: A community bulletin board/classified ad section for sharing news, offers and opportunities that don’t fit in the day-to-day editorial coverage in Publishers Lunch. Our new Classifieds work just like our very effective, industry-leading Publishers Lunch Job Board. Your posts run for seven days on a dedicated page at PublishersMarketplace.com, and every Friday we’ll collect the week’s listings in a special section of Publishers Lunch, which you can see below today. Use PL classifieds to offer galleys or office space; announce awards, new clients, press releases, […]
Refresh(ing)
Just a reminder for our friends at the Frankfurt Book Fair — or out and about any time. The new PM News App is the perfect way to follow our news, and all of the deals, as they are posted, from your mobile phone. Just go to https://m.publishersmarketplace.com to fire it up.
Easier Access
Following the rollout of our new PM News App, announced earlier this week, we have a few updates. Most importantly, we simplified the URL to access the app: just go https://m.publishersmarketplace.com. To answer a couple of frequent questions, adding the app’s icon to your home screen depends on the mobile browser you are using. A web search for “add icon to home screen” and your browser should give you the answer you need, though most commonly, in Safari just click the icon at the bottom of the browser window that looks like a rectangle with an arrow as its head, and […]
The PM News App
We are delighted to launch the PM News App, a new way for members to check the latest from Publishers Marketplace on your mobile devices. The PM News App provides easy access to all of our most frequently updated items — starting with Publishers Lunch news posts and Automat links, along with domestic Deals, Job listings, and Rights Board posts. Everything can be read “in app” without having to link back to the site. And while the focus is on the most recent posts, by clicking “load more” in any section you can page your way back in time as […]
Mobile Mavens
Are you a PublishersMarketplace.com power user wishing for more Marketplace on your mobile devices…? We are finally in the late testing stage with a new mobile PM News App. If you have an individual PM membership and would like an early look and are willing to offer feedback, please email lunch@publishersmarketplace.com with the subject line Testing, thanks.