With summer officially underway, the small but dedicated staff here at Publishers Lunch/PublishersMarketplace.com is dreaming of a few rare hours or even days away from the keyboard. We love to hear from readers and customers and we strive to process your news and answer your questions as quickly as possible — but that all depends on your reaching us through the preferred channels, so it’s a good time to revisit some tips on the best ways to reach us. Our process is designed to share most emails with multiple staff members, so whoever is on duty and online can do what […]
Publishers Marketplace Tips
Still Available: A Discount Code for New PM Subscribers
As we first noted right after Groundhog Day, we have brought back our very occasional offer of a discount for those who want to try our full, paid service at PublishersMarketplace.com. For a limited time only, we invite new subscribers to check out a whole month’s worth of all of the resources at PublishersMarketplace.com for just $15, a “rollback” to our original price. On the second of our two registration pages, when you are asked to “choose a payment plan,” just enter the code 2015 in the “Promo code:” box. Having a full month at a discount is the best way to […]
New At PM: Tracking Stock Availability
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 […]
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 […]