The irreplaceable Robin Dellabough, our projects director for the past 12 years, will retire from PM on January 31.
Buzz Books Spring/Summer Preview: Nonfiction Part 2
REGISTER HERE for the Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel this Wednesday, January 24. You can download trade editions of Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer—with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys—through NetGalley or Edelweiss. The consumer editions are available now on all major ebook platforms, including Kindle, Nook, Apple, and Google Play. Meanwhile, our season preview installment from Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer continues with these nonfiction categories: Social Issues, History and Crime, Business, Science and Technology. Titles excerpted in Buzz Books are bolded and marked with an asterisk. Social Issues William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race […]
NYPL Tries New “Orphan” Works Workaround
The New York Public Library has developed a novel, permission-based approach to try to bring potentially in-copyright “orphan works” of scholarship back into general availability. The problem, as they have identified through a variety of efforts, is that often neither the author not the publisher is certain whose permission is needed to digitize and make available out-of-print or otherwise commercially dormant books that may still be covered by copyright. And the expense — and potential liability — of doing the research or granting permission without certainty about the rights makes the risks outweigh the potential benefits of agreeing to republication. […]
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 […]
Buzz Books Spring/Summer Preview: Nonfiction Part 1
We have launched our new Buzz Book 2024: Spring/Summer sampler, with excerpts from an array of great forthcoming titles. You can download the “trade edition” now from NetGalley or Edelweiss or you can find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. Our season preview installment from Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer continues with these nonfiction categories: Essays & Criticism; Biographies and Memoirs; Politics & Current Events. This season’s nonfiction delves into topics of climate change (Bill Weir, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Clayton Page Aldern), death (Sebastian Junger), disability (Alice Wong, Imani Barbarin) and more. In personal stories, Salman Rushdie, Francine Prose, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Amy […]