Last week we went live with the first phase of a big project to refresh and redesign the look of PublishersMarketplace.com. New for now is the home page, everything that displays or interacts with deals, and the menus at the top and bottom of all pages throughout the site. Also new is a choice of formats for the “screenshot view” that helps people share their deals on social media, adding a “new style” design while preserving a gently updated “classic style” option as well. You will see more new page designs rolling in as they are completed and programmed over […]
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Buzz Books Fall/Winter Season Preview
Earlier this week we launched our Buzz Book 2023: Fall/Winter sampler, with excerpts from an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction. If you haven’t downloaded your copy yet, the “trade edition” is available now from NetGalley and Edelweiss. or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. As usual, we begin our free ebook with a broad overview of the upcoming publishing season, featuring hundreds of notable titles on the way. We’ll be presenting extracts from that season preview in the coming days, beginning here with our full list of literary fiction for the fall/winter season, alphabetically by author. Titles […]
Register Today for Our Next Buzz Books Editors Panel
You can read excerpts from the featured titles in our free ebook Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter, packed with 61 pre-publication excerpts from major authors and debuts. For the trade editions—with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, you can download through NetGalley or Edelweiss. The consumer editions of Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter are available now on all major ebook platforms, including Kindle, Nook, Apple, Kobo and Google Play. (Buzz Books is a trademark of Cader Company Inc.)
Real Book Sales Data, Now with A New Name
Following NPD’s merger with IRi last year, the combined companies have renamed themselves Circana, so you will see the Bookscan family of data products referred to as Circana Books or Circana Bookscan from now on. They report that last week print book sales were up 580,000 units compared to the same week in 2022, after six weeks of running a little below last year, now running 1 percent below 2022 on a year-to-date basis. As we reminded writers through our new monthly Authors Lunch last week — to significant interest — PM drives access to Bookscan’s real sales data for […]
PM Tips: Get Real Book Sales Data
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 […]
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 […]