Finding out the actual sales for a book—whether it’s your own title, or a comp title you are curious about—can be quite difficult. The gold-standard data service publishers, retailers and agents use to track actual retail sales of trade print books in the US is Bookscan. (It includes Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Costco, Target, Walmart, and many other general and specialty retailers selling books, plus over 800 independent bookstores, covering approximately 85 percent of trade print sales in the US.) As of this week, Bookscan’s parent company has changed its name, so you will see it referred to as […]
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Call for Fall/Winter Season Preview Listings
Our forthcoming Buzz Books 2023: 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 […]
For Just A Few Days: A Free Trial at PM
To close out the year and ring in the new, we are offering one of our very occasional free trial periods at PublishersMarketplace. Register now through January 1 and you can check out our rich resources with no further obligation (though of course we hope you stay with us into the new year). Please follow the posted terms, and cancel before the end of day on January 1 if you do not want to keep a membership for a full month. Happy new year from all of us at PM.
Holiday Schedule
We will move to our as-needed holiday schedule from here–which means we’ll have a newsletter tomorrow if there is anything to report, or we will leave your mailbox alone if there is nothing that needs saying. For PublishersMarketplace.com members we’ll be back some time next week with a catch-up issue of the newsletter as merited, most likely by Thursday — and as always, our team will be clipping news to the Automat, posting deals, accepting job listings and more.
The Gift of Information
Give yourself or tell a friend or colleague about the chance to do some deep publishing research over the quiet days ahead: We are offering a substantial discount on new PublishersMarketplace.com memberships. Use the time limited “promo code” PMFORME in the indicated field when registering and enjoy the first month of service for just $15. Feel free to share this offer with anyone you think might be interested. (Please note, you must enter code in the “Promo Code: ___” box when registering to work.)
New, More and Older
We’re always busy here at Lunch HQ building new features, stories and enhancements — though we’re often so focused on the work that we forget to share our progress with you. So today we’re taking a beat to review, and celebrate. Yesterday we sent out the second monthly issue of our new Authors Lunch newsletter, created especially for our growing population of author members. It combines relevant highlights and summaries from our daily reporting with a lot of original pieces focused on author questions and development, as well as getting the most from PM. (Two popular pieces in the latest […]