Since we started PublishersMarketplace.com over 13 years ago, one of our core features has been the Book Tracker. Originally designed follow Amazon and BN sales rank for lists of individual ISBNs (with stored histories), the Tracker has expanded over the years to contain all kinds of ISBN-related information, along with automatic tracking to check sales rank twice a day. User suggestions have helped drive some of the expansion, with Amazon price change tracking added when ebook prices were in regular flux. Now, at the prompt of literary agent Ted Weinstein, we have added another twist, automatically monitoring Amazon in-stock availability […]
Publishers Marketplace Tips
Some Finds
Many thanks for all of the kind anniversary wishes. A lot of members know PublishersMarketplace inside and out, but many people only follow a couple of familiar pathways. So here are a few tips on some cool, lesser-known features! – For starters, if you ever misplace your login information, just use our Password Reminder page. – For literary agents and other publishing professionals, we offer well-priced annual subscriptions to Nielsen Bookscan sales data and bestseller lists, integrated right into your PM account. – For mobile users, we have a purpose-built Contacts app. Not only does it search our Contacts database, […]
Late to Our Own Party
We are later than usual in acknowledging the anniversary of PublishersMarketplace.com — typical for a teenager, now that the site is just over 13 years old. (We actually get to celebrate two birthdays, since Publishers Lunch came first, in early 2000, with PublishersMarketplace.com as a second start-up the follow year, after the internet bubble burst and just weeks after 9/11. Timing.) On the one hand the numbers have us just passing out of childhood, but of course 13 internet years is like multiple lifetimes. One thing I’ve been thinking about recently is just how crazy this venture is. Absolutely no […]
A Big Boost for Dealmakers
We have gone live at Publishers Marketplace with a significant improvement to individual Dealmakers pages that has been planned for a long time: Whenever we have matching Contact data for agents and editors (or matching Member Pages, or — for agents — matching Who Represents records), that information is automatically displayed on the upper right-hand side of the Dealmaker page, right underneath the Dealmaker rankings. Simple in display (but complicated to execute) it makes our most frequently visited set of pages more comprehensive and more powerful than ever. Built in part on the indexing we created for our big Super […]
New Tracking: Self-Published Bestsellers
With self-published ebooks regularly claiming at least some positions on major bestseller lists, we wanted to move past random data points to some kind of regular monitoring. After weeks of private experimentation, we are ready to make our new process transparent. Tapping our existing stream of aggregated bestsellers lists at PublishersMarketplace (which cover multiple lists from 9 sources), we have added tagging to identify self-published titles. The new output is viewable in a couple of ways. The new PM Self-Published Bestsellers list shows all of the self-published titles to make at least one list we track — and applies a […]
Happy. Anniversary.
We’re feeling pleasantly pre-adolescent this week as we officially celebrate the twelfth anniversary of PublishersMarketplace.com. As always, it’s hard to believe what a longer-than-expected journey this has become. It remains a privilege to serve and be part of a professional community we love, and your support and participation are the driving reasons for our existence. The founding mission of our site remains the same — to help people in publishing find each other and do business together through the internet (later refined to “solving information problems and creating information opportunities for book publishing professionals”). As does our founding promise, to […]