Who Is on Top? We’ll have a number of new deals to post later day (it’s a crazy day for me). As noted yesterday, Now every day the PublishersMarketplace.com home page shows the ten most visited member pages of the week. Members can also see Lunch headlines first thing in the morning (before we Lunch is fully baked) and a deal of the day. Traffic keeps growing, as do letters from members making all kinds of great connections through the site. As I’ve said, one motivation for the new site is to try and take the power of Lunch in […]

Court Stops Tolkien Guide as Houghton Finds Itself on the Other Side of the Infringement Fence Whether or not you believed that THE WIND DONE GONE was deserving of parody protection, it was easy to admire the tenacity of Houghton Mifflin in defending an author who was not destined from the start for the bestseller list. But now that defense — cast at the time as part of the company’s storied history — seems to have been less than a broad stand, as last Thursday Houghton won a preliminary injunction from U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein preventing publication of Michael […]

Deals and Refinements In deals, there’s a Whitbread winner, a “gritty, African-American noir, new books from bestelling author Anne Rule, high-profile first fiction, a provocative book on how American leaves “many observers both admiring and uneasy, envious and appalled, enchanted but bewildered,” movie deals and more, all in the last day. In new proposals, agents are offering a Viet Nam thriller from a former aide to General Westmoreland, a “creepy” tale, and more. And our new members home page puts a lot of useful features right up front, including, as an experiment, Lunch headlines in advance of the daily mail […]

Deals and Refinements A new work from “brilliant young British historian and rising star” Lucy Moore and a self-published novel propelled into a big deal after being named a Book Sense 76 pick lead the latest deals at PublishersMarketplace. And our new home page puts a lot of useful features right up front — now you can see the deal of the day, member of the day, the latest job postings, and an ever-changing list of our 10 most popular member pages every time you hit the home page (which also tracks the number of new rights postings, deals, and […]

Big Deals Lots of news, including a genre-busting combination WWII heroes and survival-at-sea story, more from Noah Adams, high profile fiction series sales, and more. See all the latest deals And Related Proposals In an interesting bit of symmetry, one of the new proposals offered at PublishersMarketplace is a book “relating the harrowing escape by sea in an open rowboat of two Americans from a WWII German prisoner of war camp on the island of Jersey.” Anyone can check the new postings every day More people are giving risk-free membership a try every day, enjoying our growing roster of features […]

Delivery Update It’s probably more frustrating to me than to you at this point, but we’ve been advised that our e-mail service may not have a suitable solution to the problem of slow delivery of Lunch until this weekend when they’re doing a big system overhaul. Once again thanks for your patience as we work this out. Groundhogs, Day 2 Here in New York the balmy weather we’re enjoying seems a perfect prelude to our annual Groundhog’s Day Subscription Drive. Rather than cajole you all year long to make a special point of recruiting friends and co-workers to join our […]