We have a few interesting numbers of our own to share with you. Last month saw our highest traffic ever at PublishersMarketplace.com, just shy of 2 million true visitor page views (leaving out all the spiders and bots). Indeed our traffic has been strong all year, up about 18 percent over last year. Then as we started paging back, we saw that in fact, our traffic has consistently grown about 18 percent a year for at least the last five years. As regular readers and visitors know, that’s without any stunts to artificially boost site traffic, like jumping our daily […]
Publishers Marketplace Tips
A New Way to Use Our Contacts
The PublishersMarketplace Contacts database has long been one of our most popular features and now we are rolling out a way to make it even more useful: The PM Contacts mobile web app. To load the app on any iOS or Android device, point your browser to: http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/pm/contacts. (It will work on modern Blackberry devices as well, but not ancient ones, and most anything that supports jQuery Mobile.) Your device should then show you how to add the app to your home screen with one click. It provides access to the full PM contacts database, plus adds a few great […]
Remarkable
We’re delighted to acknowledge one of those marvelous moments that you never see coming, but you’re always thrilled when they occur: PublishersMarketplace.com is 10 years old. As always, our greatest thanks go to you, our members and subscribers; we exist to serve the community that supports us. Second on the list is our founding webmaster, still at the helm of this ever-growing codebase, Michael Macrone. It is a little strange and very gratifying to travel the journey from idea to institution before one’s very eyes. The simple idea ten years ago was to create a community center online, for publishing […]
Technology and Treats (Part One: Appiness)
Last year we happily experimented with creating web apps to organize and inform the BEA experience, and now we are back with new and improved versions. Two new features come directly from user feedback: 1. The iOS and Android versions use some HTML 5 magic to work offline as well as online. That means that when the mysterious Javits Center electromagnetic force field renders you unable to connect to either a cell tower or wifi at 21st-century speeds, the Publishers Lunch BEA to Go app will still let you search the events schedule and exhibitor directory. Just make sure that […]
Technology and Treats (Part Two: Bloginess)
We’re also unveiling another months-in-the-making upgrade to PublishersMarketplace.com and Publishers Lunch today. The Publishers Lunch news page and archive has left behind the 10-year-old platform we’ve been working with and moved to WordPress, with a new design and a number of new features. For now the change in your daily mail is simple: click any headline and it will take you to the site-based permalink, where we welcome your comments. Also, readers are so accustomed to getting Lunch by e-mail that they often didn’t know how to find the story links to share via blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc. In the […]
From the Substitute Chef
Publishers Lunch will be specially prepared for your consumption by Sarah Weinman (@sarahw) from today through Friday, August 28, inclusive. Please direct all tips, announcements, articles and complaints to Lunch’s temporary inbox at marketplacetips@gmail.com.