Introducing The PubMatch Bookshelf!

Posted by in PubMatch Blog on Feb 12th, 2014 | 0 comments
We are very excited to announce that we're partnering with The London Book Fair in launching an official exhibit at the 2014 LBF called The PubMatch Bookshelf!  Formerly The New Title Showcase, the PubMatch Bookshelf is an exhibit for publishers and authors to display their books at the fair, making them available to be seen by the entire audience at LBF who are all interested in rights!  Each print book will be displayed face out, with ebooks being displayed on large monitors.  Information for each title will be housed in the exhibit's catalog, along with each company or author's contact... Read More

How Many of you Are There?

Posted by in PubMatch Blog on Oct 23rd, 2013 | 0 comments
About a week ago, we returned from the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest and most active book fair in the world.  When we refer to the "activity" of a book fair, it's in part referencing the traffic on the show floor, the number of people attending, the number of conversations had, etc.  But for a fair like Frankfurt, one of the biggest gauges for activity is the  number of rights transactions taking place.  A rights transaction refers to the signing of a contract from a rights holder (or representative of the rights holder) to a buyer who is purchasing the... Read More

Ditch the Spreadsheet

Posted by in PubMatch Blog on Jul 5th, 2013 | 0 comments
Over the past year and a half or so, we’ve shown PubMatch to thousands of people, from self published authors, to midsized publishers, to very well known and influential agencies throughout the world.  We've gotten almost universal praise for the system, but when push comes to shove—particularly in the agent community—there’s been a resistance to new technology.  Apparently, this is a long standing resistance.  I say long standing, because when we query as to what technology the people in question are currently using, the response is almost always, “Microsoft Excel.” Let’s first state for the record that we LOVE Microsoft... Read More