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Agency Moves (Or Not) Following the recent dissolution of agency Burnes & Clegg, Sarah Burnes will join The Gernert Company on April 1. Burnes’ clients and projects singled out in an announcement include Mary Guterson’s WE ARE ALL FINE HERE, the GOSSIP GIRL series, and Mary Kay Zuravleff’s forthcoming THE BOWL IS ALREADY BROKEN. In London, Publishing News made agency speculation their front-page story. Canada’s Westwood Creative Artists, having recently ended their sub-agenting relationship with A P Watt, is evaluating options. Bruce Westwood says, “We can work from Canada, we can set up in London, or we can buy something. […]

Now Available As noted yesterday, our new and amazingly useful print version of over 3,000 deals from 2004 is now available for sale. For a short period of time, PublishersMarketplace members can buy it at a special discount. And if you’re at the London Book Fair, as noted before, you can check out the first copies by visiting our friends at these booths: American Collective Stand BEA Frankfurt Book Fair Deal Book page Business in London In charmingly traditional (and to me endlessly amusing) fashion, attendance at the London Book Fair rose the second day now that it’s Monday, a […]

Now Available Our new and amazingly useful print version of over 3,000 deals from 2004 is now available for sale. For a short period of time, PublishersMarketplace members can buy it at a special discount. And if you’re at the London Book Fair, as noted before, you can check out the first copies by visiting our friends at these booths: American Collective Stand BEA Frankfurt Book Fair Deal Book page From London It’s rare in life that you get to experience “the good old days” as they are happening, but that was very much sense as the London Book Fair […]

On the Page and In Your Mail As noted yesterday, since we’ve already reported a lot of “London deals,” we’re hoping to send out the weekly round-up tonight before traveling. As another reminder, you can check out the first copies of our jam-packed BOOK DEALS: 2004 in London at these booths: American Collective Stand BEA Frankfurt Book Fair As of Sunday, PublishersMarketplace members can take advantage of a short window for discounted copies through this page at our site. Deal Book info page Departures: Radwell Leaves the Club; Wicker Leaves Vista; Travel Publisher Lacks Leck In the clearest indication yet […]

Notes We’re headed for another week of well over a hundred new deal reports — to help those of you buying and selling at London, we will try to dispatch the handy weekly round-up on Friday night before getting on a plane ourselves. Of course if you think the weekly reports are handy, you really need to check out the jam-packed DEAL BOOK: 2004 book that we announced yesterday. As noted, sample copies will be on display at LBF in the American Collective Stand, BEA, and Frankfurt Book Fair booths. We should be open for web orders by then, too. […]

Giving Information Power and Personalization Following our big update of the Who Represents database, we’re pleased to announce two more cool PublishersMarketplace initiatives. The next time you use your Book Tracker, you’ll notice that we’ve added pop-up “review histories,” similar to the sales and bestseller history tables. On the top level, it shows you how many reviews we have for the title in our database; when you click the link, it takes you straight to relevant results in the Book Review Index. The feature has also been integrated into all of our Bestseller charts, next to the bestseller history button. […]