As we previewed the other day, you’ll see that we have revamped the new Deals pages at PublishersMarketplace.com, now sporting our cleaner, mobile-friendly layout and simplified navigational menus. The deal-related pages join everything jobs, all of the Lunch news, the rights board, and classifieds in our ongoing updating process to make as much of the site as possible adaptive to all screen sizes. Our mobile news app [m.publishersmarketplace.com], introduced last year, is still the best way to follow our most frequently updated items on your cellphone. Last week we announced our newly updated deal report form, which adds a variety […]
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New and Improved Deal Reports
For the first time (I think) since we launched over 16 years ago, we have revamped the deal report form at PublishersMarketplace.com. It adds a variety of new fields and checkboxes to better accommodate the stream of deals we receive every day — now including fields for series, illustrators, and additional editors and agents, plus standardized ways to report territory along with auctions and pre-empts, and more. The new form is mobile-friendly, as part of our progressive revamp of key site pages, and the backend logic will help us to better compose the final deal posts and automatically tag your […]
Now Tracking: Audio Dealmakers
We’ve made another adjustment to our big catalog of Dealmakers — tracking about 4,400 agents; 2,000 agencies; 11,000 editors; and 9,000 imprints over time on individual web pages of their transactions. We are now cataloging audio rights buyers — both individual editors and their companies — in Dealmakers lists and individual pages. The new feature includes data from the past 12 months, and covers audio rights buyers only, not sellers.
PM Updates: Expanded Children’s Categories, and More
As longtime members know, we’re always working on site refinements. We wanted to update you on a few things that we have rolled in over recent weeks: – By request, the children’s deal categories have been expanded, so our young adult and middle grade sections now both all you to distinguish between works of fiction and nonfiction. – Also in Dealmakers, all of the “categories” counts are now live hyperlinks instead of static listings. Just click to see a presentation of all the dealmaker’s transaction in any particular category. – Finally, in site administration matters, we are revamping our password […]
Tis the Season: A Holiday Free Trial At Publishers Marketplace
We’re celebrating another year of growth and new and expanded features at PublishersMarketplace.com with the return of our free trial offer. Join our site now and check out all of our resources for free (including our mobile News App)– plus you can take in all the year-end features and exclusive Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscriber-only news (and deals) from earlier this week and tomorrow. (We’ll have one more issue of PL Deluxe on the way tomorrow, and our deals, news clips and other features keep going all the time, even when the Lunch mail is on hiatus.) Please be sure to follow […]
Marking the Day
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 […]