As sometimes happens when you get a little older, with the big election and early arrival Thanksgiving we decided to postpone marking the anniversary of PublishersMarketplace.com for a month. Now just over 17 years old, we’re almost legal and getting ready for our adulthood. The standard reminder: Publishers Lunch is older by about a year and half, though we didn’t know we were starting something when we started, so there’s no easy day to mark. PublishersMarketplace was a second start-up, that involved some actual investment and physically going live on the internet — inauspiciously near the trough of the burst […]
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Thanks, And A Little Giving
Most days we go from the daily news and deals cycle to looking ahead at what we can do next, but every once in a while we get a pause to look back and now suddenly the year is almost over. There is much to be grateful for, staring with your continued attention and support — and the generous enthusiasm from members that drives our continuing growth. Net PM memberships continue to grow at a lovely pace year over year, and given that we have never marketed ourselves, that all comes from our readers, members and community at large. For […]
More Deals Details
Our busy stretch of refining and expanding aspects of our sprawling Deals database continues, and you will see the latest wrinkle in the next weekly round-up. The ever-growing section of international deal reports will now be presented alphabetically by territory (with sales in multiple territories listed together at the end). The new categorization is a direct outgrowth of the dedicated translation deal report form we introduced earlier this summer, which gives each transaction territory-specific tagging. Please note that all non-English sales should be reported through this form now — and all other deal reports should use the revamped regular deal […]
More PM News
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 […]
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.