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 […]
Publishers Marketplace Tips
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 […]
Call for Fall/Winter Season Preview Listings
Our forthcoming Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler will include, as usual, extensive seasonal preview listings of notable titles on the way. We compile these big roundups by looking at publisher catalogs; our own comprehensive monthly lists of significant forthcoming books; hints from our substantial flow of deal reports; aggregation of “anticipated books” lists from other publications; word-of-mouth within the industry; and more. If you have notable fall/winter titles you would like to have considered for the preview list — particularly ones you are concerned we might have missed from the regular signals, along with drop-ins and rescheduled releases — now is […]
Using AI to Search Deals and Dealmakers
We have launched an experimental use of an AI-powered search approach at PublishersMarketplace, called Matcher. Up until now, our corpus of over 200,000 deal reports has only been searchable through basic word matching and Boolean search strings—and our Dealmakers lists, while quite extensive, only cover the 100 or so sub-categories that we tag and track. Matcher is designed to help you find agents and editors that “match” your manuscript, using natural language descriptions of your work. In this initial phase, it comes in two versions: Deal Matcher lets you search through the deals database, and highlights the editors and agents involved […]
A Few Days of Free At Publishers Marketplace
We are closing out the year with one of those rare free trial periods at PublishersMarketplace.com. Check out everything the site has to offer — now in its redesigned glory — with no obligation, available from December 28 through January 1 only. As always, please pay careful attention to the posted terms and conditions. If you don’t want to continue past the free trial, you must cancel on or before January 1.
Our Schedule
This will be the last daily newsletter this week. We will be back at least once next week, probably towards the end of the week, to stay on top of whatever develops. Deals newsletters will maintain their regular schedule through to Monday’s weekly round-up, and from there will also be more occasional — depending upon the flow of deal reports. As always, PublishersMarketplace.com works for you 24/7 no matter what, and we will be reporting and clipping news to the website, adding new deals as they flow in, posting job openings and more. We wish all of our readers happy, […]