Backlist titles increasingly dominate the publishing landscape, comprising approximately 70 percent of all print book sales. The same statistic is true for top selling titles—of the top 200 books in 2022 and 2023, about 70 percent were published more than a year prior. Those older titles monopolize media bestseller lists, including the New York Times, leaving unrecognized many of the books that publishing staff are working on right now. But the original purpose of bestseller lists was to help readers recognize the hot new titles in the market. To help highlight which new titles are selling, we’re proud to announce […]
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Buzz Books Fall/Winter Season Preview: Fiction
Earlier this week we launched our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler, with excerpts from an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction. If you haven’t downloaded your copy yet, the “trade edition” is available now from NetGalley and Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. It’s another exciting season of new books ahead. Readers will find their way to the books previewed here and others yet to be discovered. To help you sift through the many thousands of planned fall and winter titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most […]
Final Reminder: Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel Tonight
There’s still time to register for our virtual Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel happening TONIGHT at 7:00 PM Eastern. Please note, we are using a new, simplified platform for the panel — so you don’t have to deal with a Zoom app or an Eventbrite login. Just click on the link in your registration email and you will able to watch from within your browser! You can register here. This is your chance to hear from the authors and editors of some of the fall’s next potential breakout books! Be sure to download our latest digital sampler, Buzz Books […]
The Next Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel Is A Week Away
One of the industry’s favorite events—five great editors, in conversation with five breakout authors—is just a week away. Watch Helen Atsma, Deb Futter, George Gibson, Olivia Taylor Smith and Emily Wunderlich discuss five worthy fall “buzz” titles with the authors, hosted by the book expert Leigh Haber and co-presented by the American Booksellers Association. We’re using a new platform that we hope makes everything even smoother for attendees, but it will help if you register to hold your place now. As usual, the first 25 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. Earlier in […]
Register Now for the Next Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel
Our next virtual Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel is on Thursday, May 16, at 7:00 PM Eastern. Once again, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, with book expert extraordinaire Leigh Haber hosting. You can register here. And note that the first 25 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. On May 14, we’ll release the next edition of our popular digital sampler, Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter, packed with substantial excerpts from all of the Author and Editors Panel books, as well as from dozens of other […]
Redesigned Search, Better Matches
Today we are live with the last major piece of the Publishers Marketplace redesign we began rolling out 10 months ago: A new look for our sitewide search engine, and therefore the search results from all of our different databases. The development team has worked hard on improving the results for mobile devices in particular. (We have updated the guidance/tips on how to use site search as well.) Separately, we have pushed an update to our AI-powered Agent Matcher, too. Filters let you adjust matches to agents that we know are open (or closed) to queries; and agents by experience […]