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 […]
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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, […]
Giving A Holiday Discount on PM
With the holidays upon us, we have one of those very occasional discount offers available. If someone in your life would like access to PublishersMarketplace.com, they can enjoy all that our site has to offer at 40 percent off the usual price for the first month! To qualify, enter this code — Happy23 — in the Promo Code: box that appears in the payment plan section of the Registration page. Feel free to share this offer with friends, and enjoy the holidays with some extra data. The code is valid for just a short time, through December 27.
PM For the Holidays
If you are looking for a delightful digital stocking stuffer, we have just added a fun new option at Publishers Marketplace: Now it’s easy to give a PM Quick Pass as a gift. You can buy a Quick Pass Gift Certificate, and you’ll get an emailable gift receipt with redeemable code. Or for something weightier — a good 6.7 pounds worth — our definitive book on THE TRIAL: The DOJ’s Suit to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon & Schuster remains an amazing document for any publishing library. As NY Magazine noted, “It’s like the Mueller report for publishing […]
Marking the Days
Whether you see it as a time of harvest and winding down for hibernation or a period of declining light, temperature and life force, fall is a sentimental season. Our usual antidote is to focus on commemoration, and looking forward to renewal on the horizon, even when events in the world or one’s own life makes it difficult (which is too often the case). Typically this is when we take a brief moment to mark the launch of PublishersMarketplace.com in a different challenging season — 22 years ago, in fall 2001, shortly after 9/11 and not too long after the […]